New Media Film Festival

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New Media Film Festival
Location Los Angeles
Country United States
Reward(s)US$45,000
FounderSusan Johnston
Website www.newmediafilmfestival.com

New Media Film Festival is an innovative and award-winning festival created in 2009, aiming to promote and celebrate global stories, technology, and platforms. Held annually in Los Angeles, CA, the festival has a wide-array of categories available for submission, reflecting the current state of content creation. Categories include 3D and animated shorts, web series, mobile media, apps, and music videos. According to the organizers, the festival honors "Stories Worth Telling that are created by people of All Ages-All Cultures-All Media". It showcases 3D and animated shorts, web series, mobile media, apps, and music videos, awarding over $45,000 in prizes and offering distribution to non-traditional and web-based filmmakers of the digital era.

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History

New Media Film Festival was founded by Susan Johnston in 2009. She is known as a Media Futurist currently holding the position of President at Select Services Films, Inc., a film production company. As a kid, Susan was on the set of the Great Gatsby (1949) where she met Robert Redford while her father was handling the antique cars.

In 2009 New Media Film Festival was announced in Second Life as part of the C3 – United Nations – Millennium Project as an annual event.

In 2020, the festival experimented with the online format. As of 2022, the festival has run a hybrid format, with Q&A sessions run both online and in person.

Event features

The event screens more than a dozen select submissions from around the world, often featuring well-known actors and industry professionals in addition to student filmmakers. The Festival also includes world premieres and discussion panels. Films submitted to the Festival are reviewed by a panel of judges including Pixar, The Caucus, Industrial Light & Magic Lorne Lanning, Spencer Halpin, and a variety of other Oscar, Grammy, and Sundance winners and nominees. [1]

Awards presented

Awards are given out in the following categories at the conclusion of the Festival:

Winners in each category are viewed by a distributor with a chance of online, TV or theatrical distribution in addition to monetary prizes. Each category’s winner is included in the “Best of LA” screening series, submitted to additional festivals worldwide. [2] [3]

Notable Winners
AwardCategoryYearDirector(s)
Best FeatureFeature Length2021John Strasberg
Best AnimationAnimation2020Sasha and Derek Cuneo
Best ShortShort2019David Freid
Best FeatureFeature Length2018Susan Kucera

References

  1. ↑ Jay Randy Gordon April 8, 2011 (2011-04-08). "3D, Jason Alexander, Yoko Ono Music and Lorne Lanning Screen at 2nd Annual New Media Film Festival 2011". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2011-04-15.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  2. ↑ Esther Lim November 1, 2010 (2010-11-01). "Hollywood Comes to San Francisco with the New Media Film Festival". Girls in Tech. Retrieved 2011-04-15.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  3. ↑ SAG November 16, 2010 (2010-11-16). "SAG National LGBT Actors Committee and SAG New Media Sponsor New Media Film Festival SF". Screen Actors Guild. Retrieved 2011-04-15.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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