Ben Affleck, Matt Damon’s ‘Project Greenlight’ Returns

After a nine-year hiatus, “Project Greenlight,” the documentary series executive produced by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, which chronicles the search for first-time directors, is set to return to HBO for a new season.

The competition has already started online with the top 20 director’s short films uploaded for fans to vote for their favorites at ProjectGreenlight.com.

Not only does this new spin take part in viewer engagement by allowing fans to participate in part of the scoring but Affleck and Damon, who also produced the previous two seasons in 2001 and 2003, say advances in technology are a big game changer.

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“Now that technology has caught up to the concept, we thought it was a perfect time to bring it back. A whole new generation of filmmakers has grown up sharing everything, and the next big director could be just an upload away,” Affleck said in a press release.

Online voting ends September 26 and the director of the short film with the most votes automatically gets placed into the top 10 with a trip to Los Angeles, Calif. to interview with Affleck and Damon.

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“We kind of came out of nowhere for people and so that was the question we always got. You know, can I come out of nowhere too? And so really the reason for us to get together and do this is because we are still convinced that we’ll be able to find somebody out there who deserves to be working out here,” Damon recently told Access Hollywood.

The winner will be announced in November and will get the chance to direct their very own feature film, though winning the competition may just be the first stepping stone to success.

“You throw the spaghetti at the wall and you see what sticks and you see what works for you,” Damon told Access. “No two directors do it the same. There are plenty of different ways to do it but the one thing that’s definitely true is that I’ve never seen two great directors who do it exactly the same. And so it’s about kind of defining your own process and finding out what works for you.”

“I imagine that if the person is, maintains a sense of humility and works really really hard they’ll probably put themselves in the best position to be successful,” Affleck added in our interview. “There’s no real sort of, this is what you learn, but sort of trying to maintain focus on the movie and not allowing the fact that you won a contest and you’re on television to distract you.”