2008 Machinima Fest now accepting submissions!

This year's Machinima Festival (taking place at Eyebeam in NYC, November 1st), has begun accepting submissions for this year's Mackies! If you havent submitted your Machinima work to this fest before, then by all means, hop to it and submit! You only have until September 12th!

Good luck to all the entrants!!!

Machinima Festival 2008: Save the Date!

Sure, the logo's aged a bit while sitting in the window, but it looks like some initial plans are finally falling into place regarding the AMAS Machinima Fest 08!

Taking place the weekend of November 1st, 2008, the event will be hosted by cross-media think-tank/space Eyebeam in NYC!

More details will be coming soon (Call for Entries and the like), so stay tuned to the site for future updates.

Machinima Europe Festival 07 & Machinma Festival 08

For those keeping track, some news to share on the festival front.

The 2007 Machinima Festival (North America) will be pushed into mid-2008, as we're still pulling together funding and partners for the event. A festival requires both proper financial and human resources (partially to do with my own time - more on this later), and rather than to hold a lackluster event, we've determined holding the festival in 2008 will give us more time to properly ramp up the fest. This said, we're working quite a bit in the background to lock in the 2008 date and venue. Stay tuned to here and the AMAS site for future info once it's solid (soon!).

With this in mind, I want to push having people submit their works to the Machinima Europe Festival 07! This event, which is the European equivalent of the festival we have in North America, will be a weekend long Machinima-focused event, complete with its own competition. Any Machinima work previously created can be submitted (regardless of which Machinima festivals you might have submitted to previously - including the AMAS ones in the States). In addition, the entry of your work is free! The submission deadline is Sept. 1st, so get crackin' and submit your Machinima work to this year's only Machinima event!

Machinima Festival Europe 07!

This has been cooking in the background since the start of this year, but now we're finally able to shout it out to the world - the first European Machinima Festival is taking place October 12-14th, 2007 in Leicester, England, at De Montfort University!

Put together by the fine staff at DMU and sponsored by Sleepydog, the festival is a collaboration of De Montfort University, the Institute for Creative Technologies (IOCT) and the Academy of Machinima Arts and Sciences. Read more about the event here in the release on the GamesIndustry.biz site.

We're all really excited to have an event based in Europe - to help promote Machinima within this section of the world, but also to act as a common ground for European artists and fans.

There will be more to announce shortly about the fest, so stay tuned!