List of machinima festivals

This is a list of film festivals dedicated to machinima, 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 through awards nicknamed the Mackies.

Machinima Expo

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The 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".[1]

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

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On July 17, 2002, the first Machinima Film Festival, sponsored by NVIDIA, was held as part of QuakeCon 2002. However, according to David Stellmack of TG Daily, the larger QuakeCon event seemed to overshadow the festival, which was "not very well attended".[2]

2002 Machinima Film Festival awards[3]
Award Winner Other nominees
Best Picture Anachronox: The Movie
  • Rendezvous
  • Short Film Series
Best Acting Hardly Workin'
  • Rendezvous
  • Rick Jones II
Best Direction Thin Ice
Best Sound Militia II
  • Fake Science
  • Stomp
Best Editing Smart Gun
  • Anachronox
  • Warthog Jump
Best Writing Anachronox: The Movie
  • Rendezvous
  • Under a Fallen Sun: Prelude by Saidin
Best Visual Design Fake Science
Best Independent Film Smart Gun
  • Rendezvous
  • Militia II
Best Technical Achievement Anachronox: The Movie
  • Fake Science
  • Short Film Series
Honorary Award id Software none

2003 Machinima Film Festival

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2003 Machinima Film Festival awards[4]
Award Winner Other nominees
Best Independent Machinima Film Red vs. Blue: The Blood Gulch Chronicles
  • Bouncer Please
  • Die Waltons
  • Hero
  • Ozymandias
Best Commercial/Game Machinima In the Waiting Line
  • Halo 2
  • Portal
  • Safety Kids
  • TRON 2.0
Best Technical Achievement Anna
Best Editing The Outcome
Best Writing Red vs. Blue: The Blood Gulch Chronicles
  • The Battle of Xerxes
  • Dragons
  • Gods and Fathers
  • Portal
Best Sound Hero
  • Anna
  • The Battle of Xerxes
  • Dragons
  • In the Waiting Line
Best Visual Design In the Waiting Line
  • Anna
  • The Battle of Xerxes
  • Safety Kids
  • The Tournament
Best Virtual Performance Common Sense Cooking with Carl the Cook
Best Direction In the Waiting Line
Best Picture Red vs. Blue: The Blood Gulch Chronicles
  • Anna
  • Avatara
  • Bouncer Please
  • In the Waiting Line
Honorary Award Dr. Uwe Girlich none

2005 Machinima Film Festival

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The 2005 Machinima Film Festival was held on November 12, 2005 at the American Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, New York.

2005 Machinima Film Festival awards[5]
Award Winner Other nominees
Best Picture Game: On
Best Direction Whiplash: The Movie
Best Virtual Performance A Few Good G-Men
Best Visual Design Person 2184
  • Bot
  • Game: On
  • The Infiltrators
  • The Journey
Best Sound Only The Strong Survive
Best Writing PANICS
Best Editing Strangerhood Studios
  • Engine
  • Eve Online: Never Fades
  • Pictures of War
  • Return
Best Commercial/Game Machinima Game: On
Best Independent Machinima Red vs. Blue: Season 3
  • The Adventures of Bill & John Episode 1: Danger in the Sky
  • Bot
  • The Journey
  • Peacemaker
Best Off-the-Shelf Machinima Return
  • The Adventures of Bill & John Episode 1: Danger in the Sky
  • Only The Strong Survive
  • Ours Again
  • Red vs. Blue: Season 3
Best Machinima Series This Spartan Life
Academy Honorary Award David Wright none

2006 Machinima Festival

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2006 Machinima Film Festival awards[6]
Award Winner Other nominees
Best Picture The Adventures of Bill and John: Ep. II
  • Desolate
  • Deviation
  • Edge of Remorse
  • Stolen Life Trailer
Best Direction Edge of Remorse
  • The Adventures of Bill and John: Ep. II
  • An American Baby in Iraq
  • Deviation
  • Illegal Danish: Super Snacks!
Best Virtual Performance: Puppeteering Tra5hTa1k with ILL Will
  • The Adventures of Bill and John: Ep. II
  • An American Baby in Iraq
  • The Brothers Tauren 2
  • Just a Game
Best Virtual Performance: Custom Animation Company of Heroes
  • Better Life
  • Game Over
  • Stolen Life Trailer
  • Tra5hTa1k with ILL Will
Best Voice-Acting Performance Deviation
  • The Adventures of Bill and John: Ep. II
  • Red vs. Blue
  • Slightly Later Man
  • Stolen Life Trailer
Best Visual Design Edge of Remorse
  • Game Over
  • Machinima Island Trailer
  • Reich and Roll
  • Stolen Life Trailer
Best Cinematography The Adventures of Bill and John: Ep. II
Best Original Music Stolen Life Trailer
Best Sound Design Deviation
  • The Adventures of Bill and John: Ep. II
  • Company of Heroes
  • Desolate
  • No Other Destiny
Best Writing Male Restroom Etiquette
  • The Adventures of Bill and John: Ep. II
  • Deviation
  • Red vs. Blue
  • Slightly Later Man
Best Editing The Adventures of Bill and John: Ep. II
  • An American Baby in Iraq
  • Converse Commercial
  • Deviation
  • No Other Desiny
Best Technical Achievement Company of Heroes
  • BloodSpell
  • Game Over
  • Silver Bells and Golden Spurs
  • Stolen Life Trailer
Best Commercial Machinima Silver Bells and Golden Spurs
  • Company of Heroes
  • No Other Destiny
  • Slightly Later Man
  • Soda Commercial Demo
Best Independent Machinima The Adventures of Bill and John: Ep. II
  • Desolate
  • Deviation
  • Edge of Remorse
  • Male Restroom Etiquette
Best Off-the-Shelf Machinima Just a Game
Best Series The Fixer

Machinima Festival Europe 2007

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The first Machinima Festival Europe was held in Leicester on 12–14 October 2007.[7] The festival was hosted by De Montfort University’s Institute of Creative Technologies (IOCT), and supported by the AMAS.[8]

Speakers

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Awards

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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.[8]

2007 Machinima Festival Europe Awards[8][9]
Award Winner Other nominees
Best Picture Stolen Life

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Best Visual Design Stolen Life
  • Faith Hope and Charity
  • Fallacies of a Stranger
  • Pictures of War 2 (Before and Beyond FLight 19)
  • Blink (Episode 2)
Best Direction Stolen Life
  • Faith Hope and Charity
  • Fallacies of a Stranger
  • Instinct
  • Pictures of War 2 (Before and Beyond Flight 19)
Best Sound Innocent Minds
  • Ausgedacht (Dreamed Up)
  • The Ballad of Black Mesa
  • Hark! Hear the Wails
  • Blink (Episodes 1, 2 and 3)
Best Series Grid Review (Episodes 3, 7 and 8)
  • Pirates of Parallel Structure, Sopronouns, Passive Pete Awakens
  • Pathfinders: Operation Husky, Operation Avalanche, Operation Neptune
  • Bloodspell: Episodes 11, 13 and 14
  • Blink (Episodes 1, 2 and 3)
Best Experimental Cirque du Machinima: Cuckoo Clock
  • The Ballad of Black Mesa
  • Kung-Fu Glitch
  • Duel
  • Mum's Gone to Iceland
Best Student Film Machinima! With Officer Dan (Episode 1)
  • Azerothian Super Villains (Episode 3)
  • A Child's War
  • Waterlogged 3
  • Domestic Violence
Best Story Snow Witch
  • Faith Hope and Charity
  • Stolen Life
  • Instinct
  • Pictures of War 2 (Before and Beyond Flight 19)
Best Technical Achievement Machinima Island (Episode 1)
  • Bloodspell: Episode 14
  • Better Life
  • Hindenburg
  • Halo Unyielding Part 1 and 2
Best Commercial When the Postman Spits Twice
  • Comcast Island
  • 4 Commercials for mtvU
  • Did That Break Your Concentration
  • You Hypocrite You

2008 Machinima Film Festival

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2008 Machinima Festival Awards[10]
Award Winner Other nominees
Best Long Format Clear Skies
  • Tales Of the Past III
  • War of the Servers
  • Jonathan Jekill
  • Molotov Alva and His Search for the Creator: A Second Life Odyssey
Best Series This Spartan Life
  • Virtual Worlds and the Public Good
  • As the Hamster Wheel Turns
  • Eden’s Garden
  • Snacky’s Journal
Best Short Format World of Workcraft
  • A Day in the Life of a Turret
  • The Bag Boy
  • Havoc
  • Azeroth Movie Top 3
Best Independent The Ship
  • The Monad
  • Ignis Solus
  • Chevauchée Nocturne
  • The Dumb Man
Best Student Work Azerothian Super Villains
  • The Seven Hour War
  • Race to Equality
  • Nico Bellic – A Portrait
  • Half-Life 2 Anxiety & Nightmare
Best Direction The Ship
  • Snacky’s Journal
  • Molotov Alva and His Search for the Creator: A Second Life Odyssey
  • War of the Servers
  • Ignis Solus
Best Virtual Performance The Monad
  • Ignis Solus
  • Jill’s Song
  • "Wert" Live
  • The Ship
Best Voice Acting The Monad
  • Clear Skies
  • The Bag Boy
  • Havoc
  • Jill’s Song
Best Technical Achievement Leaving the Game
  • Apocalypsis Ex Machina
  • Tiny Nation
  • BEAST
  • "Wert" Live
Best Visual Design Apocalypsis Ex Machina
  • The Demise
  • The Dumb Man
  • Chevauchée Nocturne
  • The Ship
Best Cinematography The Monad
  • Without Providence
  • Jill’s Song
  • The Ship
  • Ignis Solus
Best Original Music Ignis Solus
  • This Spartan Life- Episode 6
  • A Day in the Life a Turret
  • Chevauchée Nocturne
  • The Monad
Best Sound Design Chevauchée nocturne
  • Havoc
  • Blackstone [Log 1]
  • Apocalypsis Ex Machina
  • "The Ship
Best Writing World of Workcraft
  • The Bag Boy
  • Clear Skies
  • Snacky’s Journal, Episode 3
  • Molotov Alva and His Search for the Creator: A Second Life Odyssey
Best Editing Tales of the Past III
  • Snacky’s Journal, Episode 3
  • The Device Has Been Modified
  • Blackstone [Log 1]
Best of the Festival The Ship
  • N/A
Outstanding Achievement in Game Cinematics Mass Effect
  • N/A

Notes

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  1. ^ "MachinExpo". Retrieved 19 September 2016.
  2. ^ Stellmack.
  3. ^ Machinima Film Festival 2002 - results.
  4. ^ Machinima Awards 2003 Results.
  5. ^ 2005 Award Nominations and Selections; Maragos.
  6. ^ 2006 Machinima Film Festival: WINNERS & Nominees.
  7. ^ "De Montfort University - Leicester, UK". Retrieved 19 September 2016.
  8. ^ a b c "De Montfort University - Leicester, UK". Retrieved 19 September 2016.
  9. ^ "De Montfort University - Leicester, UK". Retrieved 19 September 2016.
  10. ^ http://festival.machinima.org/wordpress/?p=102

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