My name is Lester Burnham. This is my neighborhood; this is my street; this is my life. I am 42 years old; in less than a year I will be dead. Of course I don’t know that yet, and in a way, I am dead already. — American Beauty

Today at the GSMA’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the short film “English as a Second Language”, won the grand prize in the Mofilm mobile short film festival.

Over 250 films were submitted to the Mofilm Film Festival, held at the GSMA’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week. The MOFILM film festival encouraged submissions from amateur and professional film-makers for movies no longer than five minutes in length. Awards were presented yesterday to the best animation, drama, documentary, science fiction, outstanding cultural achievement

Actor Kevin Spacey, host of the Mofilm film festival, founded the web site Triggerstreet.com to encourage short-film makers to distribute content through the web.

Other Prize Winners included:

• Pushkin – Trevor Hardy – Animation
• Enough – Tor Kristoffersen – Drama
• The Science of Attraction – Claveski – Documentary
• Star Chicks – Jay Lee – Science Fiction
• Rockwell – Lisa Mills – Outstanding Cultural achievement

Spacey said that TriggerStreet.com has yet to add mobile phone films as part of its mix, “but I think we should. It’s one of the things that would be great for our members…I think why there’s no reason in the world not to, as long as we can figure out a way to compensate the content makers. Someone once asked me ‘how can we get more content?’, and I said, ‘Pay them’.”

Technology partner, Accenture, through its recent acquisition of Origin Digital supplied the video sharing and upload technology that supported film submissions for the event.