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Submissions to Machinima Expo 6 are now OPEN!

Submissions to the 2013 Machinima Expo

are now being accepted!

We are very pleased to announce that the Machinima Expo will be accepting machinima films for possible screening at our November 17th, 2013, virtual film festival. This is our 6th Machinima Expo and every year we find new and exciting films to share with our machinima community and the world at large. If you have a machinima film you'd like to submit to the Expo, you have from May 1st, 2013 to August 31st, 2013.

Here is how to submit your film:

First, your film must be at least 50% machinima, that is, footage from a real-time engine like Moviestorm, Second Life or Half Life 2.

Secondly, your can't have submitted the film to the Expo previously.

Thirdly, you must upload your film to Vimeo.com (or other video sites like youtube.com) and provide the link to download the film.

Fourth, you have to fill out our submission form and submit your film within the submission period.

The link to the submission form is here and on our front page under the tab SUBMIT.

Machinima Expo 6 Submission Form

A few things to keep in mind in submittion your film:

-We prefer that your send us your film in an HD format (720p or 1080p). Since your film may be screened not only at the Expo, but possibly at our sister festival, The New Media Film Festival, we need a high-quality copy of your film. Of course, we accept any format you care to submit, but if at all possible submit in HD.

-There are no restrictions on using copyrighted music, however you will take full responsibility for the legal consequences and we will consider your use of copyrighted music (and any other digital material that's in copyright) in determining the screening and jury status of your film.

-Lastly, everyone who submits a film to the Machinima Expo 6 will be notified that we have received your film for consideration. Plus, we will notify you after the submission period is over (in September, 2013) whether your film was accepted to either be screened at the Expo or forwarded on to our Jury panel for award consideration.

Last year, the Machinima Expo screened over 50 films from all over the world. We selected 10 films for Jury consideration and awarded 1 Grand Prize and 4 Jury prizes.

We will announce the screening team soon.

Good luck!

Submit Your Film to the 2013 Machinima Expo!

April 24, 2013

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We are very proud to announce that the 6th annual Machinima Expo will start accepting machinima film submissions on May 1st, 2013. Simply upload your film to Vimeo.com (we do accept youtube.com as well, but Vimeo is preferred) making sure that we can download the video. Then click the "Submit Your Film" tab at the top of this website, fill out the easy form and you are done!

Submission Period Extended for Machinima Expo 6

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We are extending the submission period for this year's Machinima Expo (2013) to 5 months. We will start accepting submissions via our website link on May 1st, 2013 and will continue to accept submissions through August 31, 2013. This gives filmmakers more time to polish their films or, if they are creating a film especially to submit to the Expo, time to complete the entire film.

We will be posting submission guidelines soon (within a few weeks) and there will be a few changes from previous years. We hope to make the submission process and requirements easier for filmmakers.

Remember, you can only submit your films from May 1st to August 31st, 2013. Look for our announcement of the start of the submission period on May 1st, 2013.

Thanks!

Machinima Expo 6 Announced!

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2013 will mark the 6th year the Machinima Expo has presented outstanding films and programming to the world machinima community. Although our programming wont' be as ambitious as previous years, we are dedicating our selves to sharing the most interesting and accomplished machinima films that submitted to this year's festival. Our focus this year will be on the films and filmmakers themselves.

To that end, we plan on premiering the jury films one a day leading up to the Machinima Expo 6, which will take place on November 17th, 2013 at machinima-expo.com. And, although we haven't finalized the technology we plan to use this year, we plan on sharing interviews with filmmakers and sharing (perhaps live) "hands-on" sessions on machinima creation.

It takes a great deal of time, effort and money to produce even a virtual film festival. We hope that by reducing the scale of the festival a bit we can make it easier and more fun to produce the Machinima Expo.

Kate Fosk, Damien Valentine and I will be announcing an extended submission period very soon. And once we decide on our presentation technology, we'll be sharing that with you as well.

PS we also plan to consolidate as much previous Expo information and films here at our main website. Look for links to past years Expo festivals where we will share photos, audio and many, many films.

Stay tuned!

Ricky Grove

The 2012 Machinima Expo Library

November 20,2012

The Machinima Expo Video Library

All the Livestreamed Expo events from the opening on Friday right through to the final words on Saturday are now available to be watched at your leisure. An amazing and comprehensive record of the craft, the hot topics and the winners of machinima in 2012!

Our Livestrem widget is in place, so just click the images/links below the screen above this post. Or click the links below. Thanks to Petlove for getting these up so quickly!

Click this Link to watch the archived Expo

We also have the jury winning films available to watch on our Livestream channel. Catch all five films in HD!

Click to watch the Jury prize winners

And remember ALL of our selected films are still screening 24/7 via our LiveStream channel. They'll continue for all of this week

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Awards Announced for the 2012 Machinima Expo

November 19, 2012

The 2012 Machinima Expo awards ceremony took place on Sunday, November 18th. Jury prizes, the Grand Jury Prize, the Peter Rasmussen Award, the OPEN THIS END award and the Audience Choice award were all presented by the lovely Lauren Weyland and Mr. Kinte Fergerson.

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I'd like to thank our 2012 Jury, Joe Farbrook, Susan Johnston, Frank Dellario, Phil Rice and Phylis Johnson, for the time and effort they spent in deciding our prize winners. (note: click the image to view the film)

Machinima Expo Jury Prize Winners

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The Last Syllable of Recorded Time by Tutsy Navarathna

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MetaSex by Tutsy Navarathna

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Unfinished Paintings (Dreaming in New Orleans) by Miron Lockett

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Wulf and Eadwacer by Hypatia Pickens

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Machinima Expo Grand Jury Prize

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The Chapelside Deception by IceAxe (Iain Friar)

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There were several other awards given out at the Expo award ceremony. Our Peter Rasmussen Award for service to the machinima community went to Kinte Fergerson for his Spotlight machinima show and his continuing efforts to bring inform and support the community.

Peter Rasmussen Award

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Kinte Fergerson

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OPEN THIS END is a non-profit arts organization based in Madrid, Spain. They develop, curate and support new media from all over the world. Cristina Garcia-Lasuen is the founder and CEO of OPEN THIS END. The Expo partnered with her to create a cash award for superior films chosen from our jury-nominated films. The three OPEN THIS END award films are:

OPEN THIS END Award

The Last Syllable of Recorded Time by Tutsy Navarathna

Wulf and Eadwacer by Hypatia Pickens

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The Chapelside Deception by IceAxe (Iain Friar)

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Our final award is the Audience Choice Award which was decided by vote on our LiveStream chat. The votes were clear and this film was chosen by our online audience decisively. That film is:

Audience Choice Award

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Unfinished Paintings (Dreaming in New Orleans

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