Cinemanila Machinima Film Fest Aftermath
October 21, 2009 by Joel Tan
Filed under MMO Music, MMORPG News, MMORPG Videos
As promised, I’m here to present you with the with the winning entries to the first ever Cinemanila Machinima Festival. Before you get comfy and begin viewing the winning videos, however, I’d like to first congratulate all participants for making the event a worthwhile endeavor.
No, I’m not an official of Cinemanila. I’m just a fan of machinima who loves being entertained by the creativity of my fellow gamers. So with that out of the way, and without further ado, I give you the winning entries to this year’s Cinemanila Machinima Film Festival:
Best Short Film:
Shelf Life Episode 1 by Pixel Eyes Productions
Best Music Video:
Since the entry has no copy that I can embed, just click on the links below.
Inside Your Head by Erica Cruz
Check out the videos fans voted for after the jump.
Audience Choice For Short Film:
Shrink Wrapped by Russel Boyd
Audience Choice For Music Video:
Worship the Will by Ian-Dean Loreños
There was supposed to be a fifth award, the Best E-Games Machinima Short, but apparently its sponsor, Philippine-based online games publisher IP e-Games backed out in the middle of the project. No explanation was given.
Talk about reputation suicide.
Anyway, it was still a great event, ushering in a new age of filmmaking and forever changing the landscape of cinema.
Cinemanila Machinima Film Festival Logo
As for Worship the Will, I’m on the fence (as I was really rooting for Darrick Regondola’s Nobody Dance, which used character sprites from MMORPG Granado Espada, to win). No offense to Ian-Dean Loreños, of course. Worship the Will is indeed a though-provoking music video, leaving you on edge with its eerie parallelism to real world soothsayers who use media to brainwash the masses.
Well, that’s it for now. Again, congratulations to the winners! I’ll try to sneak in an editorial about the sudden pull out of E-Games from the Cinemanila Machinima Film Festival later. Stay tuned!
Thanks for posting the winners and discussing the festival. We are really appreciate the award and would like to congratulate all the winners.
We are excited that Cinemanila launched the machinima festival and we hope it is here to stay. It is unfortunate that the sponsor for the fifth category pulled out.
Thanks again and keep making great machinima everybody!
Hey, James. Thanks for dropping by. I really liked Shelf Life and am looking forward to watching the next episodes. Intriguing is such a feeble word to describe your work.
Are you going to focus on machinima using the Half-Life 2 engine or are you planning to expand horizons with other games, both offline and online?
Thanks Joel!
For now we are going to focus on machinima using the Source Engine. We don’t know if we will expand in the future but the Source Engine is our preferred environment.
Wonderful.
I hope you don’t mind if I keep tabs on everything you produce from here on.
Again, good luck in your future endeavors.