Going Global: Machinimasia and Machinima Europe

With Blogger being inaccessible these past couple of weeks, I haven't been able to share some large news on the Academy front. This past summer we have been working with a number of like-minded Machinima folks on both sides of the globe to establish chapters of the Academy of Machinima Arts and Sciences in both Asia and Europe.

After an immense effort by Bian Hee Kau and the rest of his team, Machinimasia was announced on August 25th in Singapore and along with it, their annual Machinimasia festival - the Asian counterpart to our festival here in the States. We're really excited about this development and are looking forward to all types of Machinima works from Asia. You can visit the Machinimasia website or read more about the event here.

Of equal effort has been the work of Friedrich Kirschner (Machinimag), Klaus Neumann (Machinima Deutschland) and Xavier Lardy (Machinima France) to establish Machinima Europe, announced at the Leipzig Games Conference last month. While the Machinima Europe chapter will most likely synch up with AMAS on the festival front, there's no doubt they will be staging their own Machinima-related activities in their section of the globe. Read more here (scroll down the page for ME news).

These milestones of organization only resound the interest and momentum Machinima has experienced since its start 10 years ago. Congrats again to both teams and stayed tuned for further developments!