WINNER ANNOUNCED!
Jury Prize Winner and Audience Choice Award Winner:
Half-Life 2 Anxiety (Alfred Hitchcock Meets HL 2) - by Xanatos
Congratulations to Xanatos for snagging both awards!
Welcome to the Ivy Film Festival Machinima Competition
For the first time ever, the Ivy Film Festival will be holding a student machinima competition. Now in its seventh year, the Ivy Film Festival is the nation’s largest student film festival, held on the campus of Brown University every April. It aims to provide undergraduate and graduate student filmmakers from around the world a chance to showcase their work, interact with other aspiring filmmakers and network among industry professionals and Hollywood celebrities. The Festival was inspired by the premiere festivals of Hollywood; however, it caters to the young amateur filmmaker whose creative vision is realized while still in school.
The new Ivy Film Festival Machinima Competition, sponsored in partnership with
Machinima.com, provides student machinima filmmakers the opportunity to compete against their peers for the Audience Choice Award, chosen by popular vote, and the Jury Prize, chosen by the votes of a panel of Machinima and New Media experts. The judging panel includes Hugh Hancock (machinima pioneer), Paul Marino (Director of the Academy of Machinima Arts & Sciences), Jason Choi (Mackie Award Winner 2007), Carl Goodman (Deputy Director of the Museum of the Moving Image), and Mark Tribe (Professor of Modern Culture & Media at Brown University). The two winning films will be screened at the Ivy Film Festival. This particular competition is accepting submissions from high school, college, and graduate students. International submissions are encouraged. Submission deadline is March 16, 2008.
Contest Dates:
March 16th: Submission deadline. You will not be able to submit a film after this date.
March 17-23rd: First round voting for top 10
March 23-April 6th: Second round voting to determine the winner of the Audience Award. Also, the judging period to determine the winner of the Jury Prize.
April 7th: Winners of the Jury Prize and Audience Award announced on Machinima.com and IvyFilmFestival.com.
April 14-20th: Ivy Film Festival. Winners of Jury Prize and Audience Award screened at Brown University.
April 19th: Ivy Film Festival Award Ceremony.
Prizes:
Machinima.com will award two prizes. There will be one winner of the Audience Choice Award and one winner of the Jury Prize. It is possible to win both awards. Winners will be announced online and at the Ivy Film Festival. Winners will receive prizes and have their films screened at the Ivy Film Festival. The winner of the Jury Prize will receive $500 plus an award statue at the Ivy Film Festival. The winner of the Audience Choice Award will receive $250.**
**Winners are solely responsible for their own transportation and accommodations to the Ivy Film Festival.
**Additional prizes may be announced and awarded. prizes may be changed at anytime at the discretion of the Ivy Film Festival and Machinima.com.
