R2D2, Second Life, Machinima, The Caucus, Rome, London, Boston, NY, Juneau, Chicago and New Media Film FestivalThe Best in New Media… Honoring Stories worth Telling. R2D2, Second LIfe & Machinima: Tony Dyson, the man behind “Star Wars” R2-D2. The versatile Emmy nominated Film SFX supervisor is the creative genius at the helm of many of the biggest SCI-FI movies to date. Among them are “Superman 2”, “Moon Raker”, “Dragon Slayer”, and of course, “The Empire Strikes Back”. To...

Machinima-Filmmakers from around the world may contribute frame story ideas for the feature film Money & Me - Submissions of ideas for the frame story until April 30, 2010 - Submissions of short films about Money until July 31, 2010 - Presentation of the films selected by the audience in November 2010 - Premiere of the feature film Money & Me in early 2011 Hamburg based Bitfilm Networks is calling for ideas for the frame story of its feature film Money & Me...

This year the 9th International Bitfilm Festival for Digital Film will kick start its worldwide Online Festival at the Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film. Bitfilm is dedicated to films that use digital technology in a creative and innovative way: from 3D blockbusters and Internet Flash Movies to films shot in computer games and short clips for mobile devices. The main part of the Bitfilm Festival, which was founded in 2000 in Hamburg, will take place on the Internet: all films may...

Moviestorm™ officially announces that a free version of its machinima creation software is cover-mounted on the newly published "Machinima For Dummies" (Wiley Publishing, Inc.; September 2007; $U29.99, ISBN-10: 0470096918, ISBN-13: 978-0470096918). Written by Hugh Hancock and Johnnie Ingram, two of the best-known authorities on machinima, "Machinima For Dummies" teaches how to - at little or no expense - make virtually any movie using machinima techniques generally and Movi...

Bitfilm Festival 2005 to show cutting-edge digital movies in eight competitionsBitfilm Festival Hamburg (November 2 – 6 2005) presents films that use digital technologies in a creative and innovative way.The audience decides by SMS voting on awards in eight categories with a prizemoney totalling 12000 €:3D SPACE – Computer-generated 3D animationsFX MIX - Digitally composed hybrids, mixing for example live action and animationFLASH ATTACK - Films produced in Macromedia FlashMACHINIMA - Movi...