Videogames Filmmaking Competition

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This is for the upcoming (in Austin, TX) Fantastic Fest Film Festival.


The Uwe Boll Totally Awesome Videogames Filmmaking Competition

Make a video game movie trailer.

EDIT: Note the game does not have to be a console type so you can make a 'Galaga: The Movie' trailer. :)

Info I received:

"G4 and Fantastic Fest Present
Uwe Boll's Totally Awesome Video Games
Filmmaking Competition

Uwe Boll!The computer was invented in 1936, but the '80s taught it how to PARTY. What was once just a tool for algorithms and manufacturing data suddenly became ground zero for barrel-jumping Italian plumbers, ghost-eating yellow circles and ostrich-riding jousters. Mankind was thrust into an Age of Digital Sorcery...without even having to get up from the couch. These games and characters soon became as important to us as food and family. As the '90s dawned, so did a new genre of cinema, ushered in by innovative masterpieces like MORTAL KOMBAT, SUPER MARIO BROS and (of course) Jean-Claude Van Damme's epic, globe-spanning STREET FIGHTER. But shockingly enough, several of the most beloved console classics remain unadapted to the movie medium.

Where is our long-awaited dramatic re-interpretation of DIG DUG? How long must we wait before Vin Diesel and Paul Walker will get behind the wheel for a big-screen version of FROGGER? It's high time that we, as a community of creators and lifelong Nintendo warriors, rise up to provide a hungry world with the two-fisted, universe-shaking GALAGA adaptation that Hollywood has so foolishly failed to spawn. Filmmakers, grab your camera in one hand and your joystick in the other, assemble your fellow electro-enthusiasts and take aim at your target - from PONG to GRAND THEFT AUTO - for the absolute ultimate lmmaking frenzy competition: TOTALLY AWESOME VIDEO GAAAAAAMES!!!!

The top two teams will be hand-picked by our hosts, Kevin Pereira and Olivia Munn and then flown to Fantastic Fest where the best trailer will be chosen by none other than our planet's supreme arcade-to-megaplex megamaster UWE BOLL! Game OVER!!!

Screenings of TOTALLY AWESOME VIDEO GAMES will happen during Fantastic Fest 2009, and registration is open right now over at G4TV.com/Fantastic. Head over there to check out the full rules and get your film uploaded before September 4!"
 
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Videos get uploaded. Films get shipped on reels and projected with a film projector.

Sounds like this is a video contest and not a film contest.
 
Videos get uploaded. Films get shipped on reels and projected with a film projector.

Sounds like this is a video contest and not a film contest.

Eh, film is a term used by people who like to make themselves sound more sophisticated and will continue to be used even after all movies are completely digital and film is an artifact of the past.

Interesting contest....too bad there isn't a real prize other than going to a bad film festival with the possibility of meeting Uwe whoever. Why are people still allowing him to direct?

-Adam
 
Eh, film is a term used by people who like to make themselves sound more sophisticated and will continue to be used even after all movies are completely digital and film is an artifact of the past.

Interesting contest....too bad there isn't a real prize other than going to a bad film festival with the possibility of meeting Uwe whoever. Why are people still allowing him to direct?

-Adam

Have you been to the film festival? I have gone multiple times and it is far from bad. If you have been and didn't enjoy it then, well, WOW! I don't see how anyone would not have a good time. :)

Film is used like 'Coke' for soda. I don't see that words film or video have anymore sophistication.

Google 'define film' and you will see many definitions and video fits in.
 
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