<p>Filmmakers both famous and unknown rubbed elbows at the Canon Project Imaginat10n Film Festival in New York on Thursday night, which served as a glitzy celebration of 10 short movies created by stars and amateur directors and inspired by consumer-submitted photos.</p><p>Five of the films were created by Eva Longoria, Jamie Foxx, Marchesa designer (and wife of Harvey Weinstein) Georgina Chapman, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone and LCD Soundsystem frontman James Murphy, all of whom were inspired by the opportunity to create something by stepping behind the scenes.</p><p>EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS: Canon's Project Imaginat10n Film Festival</p><p>For Longoria, her action short Out of the Blue was a chance for her to live out her dream of being a stunt woman. For Foxx, his movie And She Was My Eve, which he described as "Frankenstein meets Love Jones," gave him the chance to work with an actor he'd admired in Tyrin Turner, who starred in Menace II Society and, as Foxx noted, in Janet Jackson's "Rhythm Nation" video. (He's the guy peering through the fence.)</p><p><a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/canon-project-imaginat10n-film-festival-651051">Keep reading...</a></p><p>Read also:</p><p><a href="http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2013/10/24/canon-and-ron-howard-announce-project-imaginat10n-film-festival">Canon and Ron Howard&#039;s "Project Imaginat10n" film festival starts today</a> (imaging resource)</p><p><a href="http://www.theawl.com/2013/10/check-out-canons-project-imaginat10n">Check Out Canon&#039;s Project Imaginat10n</a> (The Awl)</p><p><a href="http://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwart/article/Canon-and-Ron-Howard-Launch-Project-Imaginat10n-Showcasing-Films-Inspired-by-User-Submitted-Photographs-20131024">Canon and Ron Howard Launch &#039;Project Imaginat10n&#039; Showcasing Films ...</a> (Broadway World)</p><p>Explore: <a href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ncl=dIHqJc12j3eopwMjjvJ7wQS1x-UWM&ned=us">17 additional articles.</a></p>