This is a list of
film festival
A film festival is an organized, extended presentation of films in one or more cinemas or screening venues, usually in a single city or region. Increasingly, film festivals show some films outdoors. Films may be of recent date and, depending upon ...
s dedicated to
machinima
Machinima, originally machinema () is the use of real-time computer graphics engines to create a cinematic production. Most often, video games are used to generate the computer animation. The word "machinima" is a portmanteau of the words ''ma ...
, the use of real-time 3-D engines in filmmaking. The Academy of Machinima Arts & Sciences (AMAS) regularly holds such festivals, and recognizes exemplary
machinima works
Machinima, originally machinema () is the use of real-time computer graphics engines to create a cinematic production. Most often, video games are used to generate the computer animation. The word "machinima" is a portmanteau of the words '' ...
through awards nicknamed the Mackies.
Machinima Expo
Th
Machinima Expo(or "MachinExpo") is an annual international machinima festival started in 2008. In 2010 the organization expanded and is now run with help of a large team of volunteers. Submission is accepted during the summer months and the event takes place in November on the Internet and in the virtual world of Second Life".
2008 Jury Award Nominees
*''Liberty City'', directed by Claus-Dieter Schulz Liberty City
*''An UnfairWar'', directed by Thuyen Nguyen
*''The SnowWitch'', directed by Michelle Pettit-Mee
*''Tiny Nation'', directed by Kerria Seabrooke
*''Among Fables and Men'', directed by Tobias Lundmark
*''Clear Skies'', directed by Ian Chisolm
*''Beast'', directed by Leo Lucien-Bay
*''The DumbMan'', directed by Trace Sanderson
*''Wizard of OS: The Fish Incident'', directed by Tom Jantol
2002 Machinima Film Festival
On July 17, 2002, the first Machinima Film Festival, sponsored by
NVIDIA
Nvidia CorporationOfficially written as NVIDIA and stylized in its logo as VIDIA with the lowercase "n" the same height as the uppercase "VIDIA"; formerly stylized as VIDIA with a large italicized lowercase "n" on products from the mid 1990s to ...
, was held as part of
QuakeCon
QuakeCon is a yearly convention held by ZeniMax Media to celebrate and promote the major franchises of id Software and other studios owned by ZeniMax. It includes a large, paid, bring-your-own-computer ( BYOC) LAN party event with a competitive ...
2002. However, according to David Stellmack of ''
TG Daily'', the larger QuakeCon event seemed to overshadow the festival, which was "not very well attended".
[Stellmack.]
2003 Machinima Film Festival
2005 Machinima Film Festival
The 2005 Machinima Film Festival was held on November 12, 2005 at the
American Museum of the Moving Image
The Museum of the Moving Image is a media museum located in a former building of the historic Astoria Studios (now Kaufman Astoria Studios), in the Astoria neighborhood in Queens, New York City. The museum originally opened in 1988 as the Amer ...
in
Astoria, New York
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.
2006 Machinima Festival
Machinima Festival Europe 2007
The first Machinima Festival Europe was held in
Leicester
Leicester ( ) is a city status in the United Kingdom, city, Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority and the county town of Leicestershire in the East Midlands of England. It is the largest settlement in the East Midlands.
The city l ...
on 12–14 October 2007.
The festival was hosted by
De Montfort University
De Montfort University Leicester (DMU) is a public university in the city of Leicester, England. It was established in accordance with the Further and Higher Education Act in 1992 as a degree awarding body. The name De Montfort University was tak ...
’s Institute of Creative Technologies (IOCT), and supported by the AMAS.
Speakers
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Burnie Burns
Michael Justin "Burnie" Burns (born January 18, 1973) is an American writer, actor, producer, comedian, host, and director previously based in Austin, Texas. He is a co-founder, former chief executive officer, and former chief creative offic ...
,
Rooster Teeth Productions
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*Alex Chan, Machinimator
*Frank Dellario, The Electric Sheep Company
*Ricard Gras, Inter-Activa
*Hugh Hancock,
Strange Company
Strange Company was a group of machinima creators and distributors based in Edinburgh, Scotland. They are known in the medium as the longest-standing machinima production company, having produced machinima films since 1997, and for creating the ...
*Tracy Harwood,
De Montfort University
De Montfort University Leicester (DMU) is a public university in the city of Leicester, England. It was established in accordance with the Further and Higher Education Act in 1992 as a degree awarding body. The name De Montfort University was tak ...
*Deryck Houghton, Freeth Cartwright
*Andrew Hugill, Institute of Creative Technologies
*Johnnie Ingram,
Strange Company
Strange Company was a group of machinima creators and distributors based in Edinburgh, Scotland. They are known in the medium as the longest-standing machinima production company, having produced machinima films since 1997, and for creating the ...
*Matt Kelland, Moviestorm
*Friedrich Kirschner, AMAS
*Xavier Lardy, Machinima.fr
*Xin Kai Li,
De Montfort University
De Montfort University Leicester (DMU) is a public university in the city of Leicester, England. It was established in accordance with the Further and Higher Education Act in 1992 as a degree awarding body. The name De Montfort University was tak ...
*Matthew Linley,
Phoenix Arts Centre
Sue Townsend Theatre (formerly the Phoenix Theatre, Phoenix Arts Centre and the Upper Brown Street Theatre) is a theatre in the city of Leicester, England. The centre hosts live shows and films of the arthouse and world cinema genres. Julian Wr ...
*Mary Mackintosh,
De Montfort University
De Montfort University Leicester (DMU) is a public university in the city of Leicester, England. It was established in accordance with the Further and Higher Education Act in 1992 as a degree awarding body. The name De Montfort University was tak ...
*
Paul Marino
Paul Marino (born March 10, 1980) is a film director, producer, animator, voice actor, and author currently focused on machinima, the art of using engines from video games to create films. He is a co-founder and the executive director of the ...
, The
ILL Clan
Machinima, originally machinema () is the use of real-time computer graphics engines to create a cinematic production. Most often, video games are used to generate the computer animation. The word "machinima" is a portmanteau of the words '' ...
*John C Martin II, Reallusion
*Toby Moores,
Sleepydog
*Klaus Neumann, ''Screen'' Magazine
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Kate Pullinger
Kate Pullinger is a Canadian novelist and author of digital fiction, and a professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University, England. She was born 1961 in Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada, and went to high school on Vancouver Island. She dr ...
,
De Montfort University
De Montfort University Leicester (DMU) is a public university in the city of Leicester, England. It was established in accordance with the Further and Higher Education Act in 1992 as a degree awarding body. The name De Montfort University was tak ...
*
Jason Saldana, Rooster Teeth Productions
*Sue Thomas,
De Montfort University
De Montfort University Leicester (DMU) is a public university in the city of Leicester, England. It was established in accordance with the Further and Higher Education Act in 1992 as a degree awarding body. The name De Montfort University was tak ...
*
Martyn Ware
Martyn Ware (born 19 May 1956) is an English musician, composer, arranger, record producer, and music programmer. As a founding member of both the Human League and Heaven 17, Ware was partly responsible for hit songs such as " Being Boiled" and ...
, Illustrious Company
Awards
As part of the festival, exemplary machinima productions were recognised with awards presented by Toby Moores, Visiting Professor at the IOCT and CEO of
Sleepydog.
2008 Machinima Film Festival
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External links
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Machinima Festival Europe 2007
Machinima
Machinima, originally machinema () is the use of real-time computer graphics engines to create a cinematic production. Most often, video games are used to generate the computer animation. The word "machinima" is a portmanteau of the words ''ma ...
*Festivals
machinima
Machinima, originally machinema () is the use of real-time computer graphics engines to create a cinematic production. Most often, video games are used to generate the computer animation. The word "machinima" is a portmanteau of the words ''ma ...