A video on Amazon Studios' website says one of its goals is to open up the movie industry because Hollywood is too closed. Movies are made by people all over the world now and Amazon Studios hopes to give those people a venue to show off their work and develop worthy projects into motion pictures.

"Our goal is to turn your projects into major feature films," the video host says.

Amazon Studios said its industry panel will include screenwriter and chair of the writing division of the USC school of Cinematic Arts, Jack Epps, Jr., who wrote "Top Gun" as well as Mark Gill, former president of Miramax and Warner Independent Pictures.