Who We Are
Executive Committee (2010)
KATE FOSK
Kate is an independent film maker working in the North-East of England. She makes Machinima films, which are animated movies made using the same technology that drives video games. Along with Michael R. Joyce, Kate runs Pinneapple Pictures, a production company founded in 2007 for creating unique and unusual machinima.
RICKY GROVE
Ricky Grove is involved in machinima as both an actor and a sound designer. His sound work on Jason Choi’s Only the Strong Survive won a Mackie award (Academy of Machinima Arts & Sciences) in 2005 and his acting was featured on the machinima film The Days After, directed by Andre Pesch and winner of a 2006 Bitfilm award. Ricky currently runs Machiniplex.com along with Phil Rice.
PHIL RICE
Phil Rice, also known as Overman, first came to be involved with machinima in 1998, producing a handful of short machinima works. He has collaborated on over 50 films, and is an active contributor to the machinima filmmaking community. Phil maintains an active blog on machinima (z-studios.com/blog) and a complete archive of his machinima films. In September of 2006, he released Male Restroom Etiquette, a comedic mockumentary short film, reaching an audience of over five million viewers on YouTube, and gathering a Best Writing award at the 2006 Machinima Film Festival.
