Dates & Hours
Saturday and Sunday
November 4 & 5, 2006
11am-6pm

Where
Museum of the Moving Image
35 Ave at 36 Street
Astoria, New York - USA
Directions

Tickets/Admission - On Sale Now!
$10/day - $15/for both days
Buy advance tickets at the Museum site

Note: All tickets will be available for pickup the day of the screening. These tickets will not be shipped to you. Seating at the screenings and panels are on a first-come, first-served basis.

Want updates to the 2006 Machinima Fest as they're announced? Submit your info below and we'll include you in our festival mailing list!

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2006 Machinima Fest Promo
by Eriyanna of Myndflame!

PEDS - Just A Short: Festival
by CJ Ambrosia



Neverending Nights
2006 Machinima Fest Promo!
by Tawmis of NeN



Making the Clan
2006 Machinima Fest Promo!
by Robbie Hubert of MtC



Machinima Europe
2006 Machinima Fest Promo!
by Friedrich and Klaus
of Machinima Europe

And without further adieu, the awards go to:

Best Picture
The Adventures of Bill and John: Danger Attacks at Dawn
KBS Productions
Game: Lock On: Modern Air Combat

Best Direction
Edge of Remorse
Jason I. Choi
Game: World of Warcraft

Best Virtual Performance: Puppeteering
Tra5h Ta1k
The ILL Clan
Game: Torque Engine

Best Virtual Performance: Custom Animation
Company of Heroes
Relic Studios
Game: Company of Heroes

Best Voice-Acting Performance
Deviation
Hardlight Films
Game: Counterstrike 1.6

Best Visual Design
Edge of Remorse
Riot Films
Game: World of Warcraft

Best Cinematography
The Adventures of Bill and John: Danger Attacks at Dawn
KBS Productions
Game: Lock On: Modern Air Combat

Best Original Music
Stolen Life
Phillip Johnston
Game: 3D Game Studio

Best Sound Design
Deviation
Neil Fazzari, Tom Efinger, John Moros
Game: Counterstrike 1.6

Best Writing
Male Restroom Etiquette
Phil Rice
Game: The Sims 2

Best Editing
The Adventures of Bill and John: Danger Attacks at Dawn
Bertrand Le Cabec, Frederic Servant
Game: Lock On: Modern Air Combat

Best Technical Achievement
Company of Heroes

Relic Studios
Game: Company of Heroes

Best Commercial Machinima

Silver Bells and Golden Spurs

Eric Call
Game: Second Life

Best Independent Machinima
The Adventures of Bill and John: Danger Attacks at Dawn
KBS Productions
Game: Lock On: Modern Air Combat

Best Off-the-Shelf Machinima
Just A Game
Mu Productions
Game: Tribes: Vengeance

Best Machinima Series
The Fixer
Todd Stallkamp
Game: The Sims 2

Congratulations to all the winners and nominees!

image courtesy of Rik Reil

We're not exactly deliverin' pizzas like Hiro yet, but for those of you who are unable to attend the meatspace version of the Machinima Fest, can join us for the virtual version in Second Life!

Courtesy of our friends The Electric Sheep Company, we'll be producing two events in Second Life around this year's festival.

First up is a Machinima Festival preview, taking place in Electric Sheep's Laguna Beach Theater in Second Life on Thursday, November. 2nd at 1am GMT/8pm EST/ 5pm PST. The preview will showcase several works being screened at the festival, as well as having some of the nominees on hand to speak about their productions and thoughts about Machinima in general.

Next up is the 2006 Machinima Awards ceremony on Saturday, November 4th at 9pm EST in Second Life. Once again being held at the Laguna Beach Theater, this year's Mackies will be simulcasted in-world so those not able to attend the event in New York can sit in on the ceremony in the virtual theater and hear the awards live as they're announced! Even the Oscars don't provide that!

You can read more about the 2006 Machinima Fest events in Second Life over at The Click Heard Around the World, blog of Rik Panganiban, who is leading up the SL events on the AMAS side of things.

Nothing like a multi-verse event to mark the advances of technology, I always say.

We're coming into the home stretch of the festival, which is just shy of two weeks away!

We have some updates to make to the site over the next week, one of which is listing our 2006 Machinima Awards judges! Our esteemed panel represents a wide range of experience and each will apply their knowledge to reviewing the nominated Machinima works. We are truly honored to have such a high caliber group of folks to contribute to our festival and it really helps shape our event and organization as a whole.

You can view our list of judges here: The 2006 Machinima Awards Judging Panel.

Note: The 2006 Machinima Awards Judging Panel solely reviews the works that were nominated for awards.

All the votes are in and tallied - the nominees have been selected. We're now collecting all the details about the works to post here as well as notifying the entrants (both nominees and entrants who weren't selected). Hang tight, folks. More info in a few hours...

We're running a bit behind here at Machinima Fest HQ, primarily because we have numerous submissions to screen - and giving each one a proper review to ensure our selection process is thorough enough is taking longer than anticipated. To this, we'll be announcing the nominations on Tuesday, Oct. 10th.

We know the waiting is the hardest part, but want to make sure we have all our T's crossed and I's dotted - not to mention a number of cool Mackie nominations to list. Our apologies for the delay and thanks to everyone for your patience.

We're hours away from the festival deadline and the competition is heating up! If you havent submitted your work yet, you have still have a few hours to do so (the festival submission page will be turned off at 11:59pm EST of Friday, Septermber 22nd!)

UPDATE! In order to accommodate a few of our west coast Machinimators, we're leaving the submissions page up for a few hours longer - until approximately 11:59pm PST.

And finally our latest (and possibly last?) promo for the 2006 Machinima Festival - from our good friends (and festival sponsor) Reallusion! Take it away, boys!

2006 Machinima Festival Promo from Reallusion!

Time is ticking fast away as we're a week away from our festival submission deadline! In the background, we're busy nailing down the festival schedule and speakers. We have some pretty interesting talks planned and think that the festival will have extremely well-rounded program, suiting both the initiated and those new to Machinima. We'll post our schedule soon so you can start planning your days!

Let's cut now to our latest promo - from Eriyanna at Myndflame.com! (Zinwrath/Illegal Danish)

2006 Machinima Festival Promo from Myndflame!

I'm sure there's probably no need to raise the anxiety levels of those who already have the Sept. 22nd date permanently etched into their gray matter at this point, but for those who haven't been keeping track of the calendar, we're nearing the deadline, which is less than 3 weeks away. I've been asked a few times if we will have any sort of extension and the truth is, if we extend the deadline, then it won't give folks enough time to plan their travel should they be nominated.

On that note, let's cut to a bit of levity - such as another festival promo! Our latest is by CJ Ambrosia - director of the Grand Theft Auto-based series, PEDS!

PEDS - Just A Short: Festival

In order to acknowledge the infusion of original musical compositions into Machinima productions, the board voted this week to create a separate award for Machinima works that use original music. This new award, Best Original Music, is now included in the submission form. In addition, the Best Sound category has now be redefined as "Best Sound Design" with a focus on sound design and editing.

For those of you who've already submitted their works and would like to have their entry considered for the new category, please send a note to submissions[at]machinima[dot]org and we'll update your submission for consideration into this category.

Ok, folks. The 2006 Machinima Festival/Awards form is finally up! Thanks for your patience and get crackin' on submitting those entries!

Alright, folks. We're still getting the submission form up and running, but we should have it posted shortly.

While we're still waiting on that (should be up in the next day), we have two more great promo submissions - one from Tawmis of Neverending Nights and another from Robbie of Making The Clan.

Hello world! The 2006 fest site is live! We'll be posting updates as we have them, but for now, the site being up is the big news!. There's still some pages being developed (Submission Form and Program Schedule), but we have most of the initial info in place and will update the others soon. A big THANKS! to the folks that helped us get here!

And now, to kick off the site proper, here's a great promo vid made by Klaus and Friedrich over at MachinimaDeutschland announcing the fest and call for entries.