Four Mondo Mini Shows Accepted to Sundance's First Annual Online Film Festival Including Gone Bad, Julius & Friends, RocketPants and FishBar.Business Editors and Entertainment Writers SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 8, 2001 Mondo Mini Shows Mondo Mini Shows (also known as Mondo Media) is a leading innovator in the use of new media platforms for the delivery of high-quality animation targeted at teens and young adults. will be Highlighted Throughout Online Film Festival and Eligible for the Online Audience Award Mondo mon·do Slang adj. Enormous; huge: a mondo list of pizza toppings. adv. Extremely; very: a mondo big mistake. Media, creator of the new media industry's first digital entertainment distribution network, Monday announced that four Mondo Mini Shows have been nominated in the first-ever Sundance Online Film Festival, part of the Sundance Film Festival, beginning on Jan. 18, 2001. The four animated Mondo Mini Shows are eligible to win the Online Audience Award, to be announced To be announced (TBA) A contract for the purchase or sale of an MBS to be delivered at an agreed-upon future date but does not include a specified pool number and number of pools or precise amount to be delivered. on March 5. The four nominees include Gone Bad, Julius & Friends, RocketPants and FishBar. "We are very excited about this recognition from the Sundance organization," said John Evershed, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and co-founder of Mondo Media. "It reinforces our belief that Mondo Mini Shows represent the highest standard of quality entertainment available on the Internet, and we look forward to celebrating these four nominations at the first online film festival at Sundance." Gone Bad is truly a stunning work of art and one of the first Internet pieces to grab serious attention from audiences all over. A spaghetti-western meets Night of the Living Dead, Gone Bad is full of dark humor and bone-chilling sequences. It takes place in a small town infested in·fest tr.v. in·fest·ed, in·fest·ing, in·fests 1. To inhabit or overrun in numbers or quantities large enough to be harmful, threatening, or obnoxious: with zombies Zombies Companies that continue to operate even though they are insolvent. Also known as living dead. Notes: It's advisable to avoid investing in zombies at all costs their life expectancies are highly unpredictable. and only a handful of people left alive. Gone Bad is created by Marco Bertoldo, 3-D animator and director for Mondo Media, and written by Italian horror writer Niccolo Ammaniti. Julius & Friends, co-produced by Mondo Media and Zeros & Ones Entertainment, features Paul Frank's fashion characters that have become international pop icons. Under the direction of creator Obie Scott Wade, Frank's popular characters smile for the camera in a new animated series, that follows the unexpected adventures of Julius the monkey, his sidekick, Clancy, the world's only miniature giraffe giraffe, African ruminant mammal, Giraffa camelopardalis, living in open savanna S of the Sahara. The tallest of animals, giraffes browse in treetops at heights inaccessible to other leaf-eaters. A male may be 18 ft (5.5 m) from hoof to crown. and all of their friends in Planned Pines, USA. RocketPants is a beautiful yet disturbing romp through the life and world of a character, Cliff, who uses his own natural gasses to fly. Creator Andy Murdock's 3-D animated short looks at the pain and wonder of life, and how we all have to sometimes make compromises. RocketPants premiered last year at Resfest 2000. FishBar, Honkworm International's first and most acclaimed show, is a true Terry Gilliam-inspired festival of silliness. The series won "Best Animated Short Film" Award at The Yahoo! Internet Life Yahoo! Internet Life was a monthly magazine published by Ziff-Davis, which licensed the name from Yahoo!, a well known search engine website. It was created and launched by Barry Golson, the former executive editor of Playboy and TV guide. Online Film Festival. FishBar was also featured on MTV MTV in full Music Television U.S. cable television network, established in 1980 to present videos of musicians and singers performing new rock music. MTV won a wide following among rock-music fans worldwide and greatly affected the popular-music business. television both in Europe and in the United States, and has earned international recognition. Gone Bad, Julius & Friends, RocketPants and FishBar will be shown at the digital center Main Street Mall The Main Street Mall (also called the Main Street Shopping Centre) is a complex in the town of Omagh, County Tyrone in Northern Ireland. It is strange as many people would think that it is a shopping centre on . Each day a different online film will be featured and Mondo Media creators and producers will be available to answer questions. RocketPants will be shown on Jan. 20, Julius & Friends on the 21st, FishBar on the 22nd and Gone Bad on the 24th. [pilcrow (paragraph sign)] In addition, all nominated shows can be viewed online at the Sundance site until Feb. 18. Viewers can also vote for the Online Audience Award, which will be announced on March 5. About Mondo Media Mondo Media is a new kind of syndicator -- one that creates and develops animated entertainment properties for distribution across a powerful online network, including many of the most recognized names on the Internet: Entertaindom, Excite@Home, Lycos, NBCi, Netscape Netcenter, Real Networks, and shockwave.com, among others. With this network as a base, Mondo Media presents its renowned Mondo Mini Shows, short, original, irreverent and always entertaining, to an audience of fans and animation enthusiasts. |
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