Machinima Expo 2010 Submission Deadline Extended to Tuesday, Sept 7th

In order to allow Machinima directors and producers to have a little time to submit their film to the MachinExpo 2010, we have decided to extend the submission period for one week. This makes the new deadline:

Tuesday, September 7th at 12PM Pacific Time

In addition, we have decided to extend the submission period for the Spanish/Latin entries to Tuesday, September 14th at 12PM Pacific Time. We feel that because we added Spain and Portugal several weeks after submissions started, it’s only fair to those Spanish and Latin machinima directors to have a bit more time than everyone else.

The Expo has received well over 130 entries to date and are very pleased with the quality of the submissions. We plan on announcing the films that will screen at the Expo along with those films which we will send on to our Jury sometime in September. We are also planning a surprise announcement about a new category of film screening at the Expo this year. More info to come.

-Ricky

Machinima Expo Supports the 48 Hour Film Project

The Machinima Expo officially supports the 48 Hour Film Project / Machinima. In addition to helping promote this great project, we will be screening the winners of the competition at the MachinExpo 2010 on November 20th and 21st. If you’ve never heard of the 48 Hour Film Project it’s a nation-wide effort to create a fully realized short film in 48 hours. In this case, it’s machinima. It’s an exciting experience that will truly help sharpen your skills and teach you about teamwork.

Here is the official press release with links:

The 48 Hour Film Project, the oldest and biggest time filmmaking competition, is looking for machinima!  In a wild, sleepless weekend, you and a team will make a movie —-  write, shoot, edit and score it.  From scratch.  In 48hours.  On Friday, September 17, you’ll get a character, a prop, a line of dialogue and a genre, all to include in your movie.  By Sunday, September 19, the movie must be complete and uploaded to our server in California.

Each completed film is guaranteed a screening  in Twinity, Inworldz and Second Life.

Winner ánd runner up will be screened at MachinimaExpo 2010.

Meet other machinimatographers, spend 48 hours in intense movie making, have your film screened in several virtual worlds, and compete to represent machinima against the other 90 48HFP cities!  Come on out and make a movie!

To be part of the 48HFP, register online at: http://www.48hourfilm.com/machinima

Registration costs  $48 per team. Space is limited, so register today!

The events in 2010 are held in Second Life, which is a free download at: http://secondlife.com/support/downloads/

Teamleaders are expected to be present at kickoff and screening event, if you need any help at all in entering Second Life; please contact Chantal Harvey, and you will be coached step by step. It is also possible to come to the events in a ready made account. (talk about it being easy.)

Communication can be through using skype @ chantal.harvey, and by email: machinima@48hourfilm.com

This SLurl will take your avatar to the 48HFP theatre :  http://slurl.com/secondlife/UWA/6/248/1638

Some dates to remember:  (all times are sl/pacific times)

September 14:    Meet and greet the 48HFP teams – 3 pm

September 17:    Kickoff event at 5 pm, genres/prop/line/character handout and start of contest September 19:    Dropoff event at 5 pm, end of contest is 6.30 pm

September 23:    Screening of the films, awards and winners announced

Dont miss the change to bring your machinima to the World, the winner will be screened at our Filmapalooza Festival, and winners there will go to Cannes!!

For More Information Contact:

Chantal Harvey

Machinima Producer 48 Hour Film Project

http://www.48hourfilm.com/machinima

machinima@48hourfilm.com

Expo to Expand Latin Focus to Include Spanish and Portuguese Machinima Entries

Since the very first Expo, we have created a Machinima jury award for different countries in order to encourage and promote Machinima around the world. At the first Expo (2008) we reached out to Canadian machinima filmmakers and awarded a Jury prize to “Turbulence” by J. Rojas.

Turbulence – 2008 from jpro on Vimeo.

Then in 2009 we chose Asia to focus on and had many excellent entries choosing Krrish Spyker’s “Scripted” for our jury prize.

This year we are focusing on Latin America, Spain and Portugal for our International Jury Prize. Originally we decided to narrow the entries to only Latin American countries, but we feel it is too narrow a choice and are opening the Expo to any submissions from Spain or Portugal (Spanish and Portuguese). Note: entries do not have to be subtitled in English (although we encourage you to do so).

Please spread the word to any Spanish, Latin or Portuguese Machinima filmmakers you may know. Submission guidelines and forms are to the right of this post.