We’re chuffed! Two of our web documentaries, The Industry and Echoes of IS are in the running for a Gouden Kalf for Best Interactive 2018. For the third consecutive year a jury of industry professionals will award the prestigious prize for best Dutch interactive production during the Netherlands Film Festival. Ten multimedia productions were nominated this year, … Continued
One of the best parts of the SXSW’s Interactive Program last month was surely the SXSW Interactive Awards, highlighting the most inspiring and boundary-pushing interactive projects of the year. Which ones were honored? Well too many for this article! Without further ado, we pick out the coolest of the cool for you.
The quality of the title designs nominated for the SXSW Film Title Design Award this year is high. Twenty nominees were announced yesterday. Two more than last year. It’s going to be tough to pick a winner with so much talent represented. We noticed some new “faces” among several familiar ones among the nominees. For … Continued
The Digital Emmy that nearly had us with Collapsus finally went to the splendid Lebanese web drama Shankaboot. It’s about as far-removed from Collapsus as it’s possible to be: a straight-up series of live action micro-stories that follow the daily misadventures of courier/dreamboat Sleiman as he zips around Beirut on his Vespa.
Oh me oh MY! A double-whammy ego-massage for our energy risk conspiracy Collapsus this week, in the shape of (first) an Emmy nomination for Best Digital Fiction. Allow me to repeat: An. Emmy. Nomination. Bouquets to the usual address please! Or maybe wait for the results on MIPTV‘s opening shindig in the palm-fringed palisades of … Continued
Aah the Webbys! You know it’s that time when the cleverest tecchy and creative people you know start blowing up our inbox with those gosh-darned vote requests (“No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.” Jacob Bronowski)… But anyway, our pet website Forget the Film, Watch the Titles – … Continued
Designed by Ben Conrad of Logan, the main title of Zombieland combined spectacular slow motion live action scenes of attacking zombies and a powerful score by Metallica with suiting typography. Pure solid entertainment, so the jury voted anonymously for this title sequence.
SXSW -famous film fest in Texas- added the ‘Excellence in Title Design‘ award to their Film Design awards. “Open internationally to all Title Sequences that exist as part of a completed film finished in 2009 or later”. Meet the jurors: Kyle Cooper and Karin Fong, Art Of The Title, and yours truly: Submarine Channel and … Continued
About 3 weeks ago we wrote about the 2008 Mackie Winners – the Machimima Filmfests’ awards for the best Machinima films of the year. We loved the winning video – a beautiful, moving, surreal short film The Ship – so we got in touch with the guy who made it: Egils Mednis. The Latvian machinimaker … Continued
The people at the World Wide Web’s most coveted accolades, the Webby Awards, have compiled a list of the Top 10 Web Political Moments to help pass the time as we wait for the results of the most brutal, most expensive and most fascinating election contest in living memory. Be still my beating heart!
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