Yahoo! Internet Life Online Film Festival Teams With Yahoo! Movies to Bring Festival Finalists to Online Stage.Entertainment Editors NEW YORK--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--Feb. 16, 2001 Thirty Live-Action, Animation and Documentary Shorts Available for Viewing and Voting at http://movies.yahoo.com/onlinefilmfest Esteemed Festival Jury Announces Top Winners at 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 (YILOFF YILOFF Yahoo! Internet Life Online Film Festival ) Awards Ceremony, March 22, 2001 in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. One Winner Awarded Chance for Pitch Meeting with MGM MGM in full Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. U.S. corporation and film studio. It was formed when the film distributor Marcus Loew, who bought Metro Pictures in 1920, merged it with the Goldwyn production company in 1924 and with Louis B. Mayer Pictures in 1925. For the second year, Yahoo! Internet Life Online Film Festival (www.yilfilmfestival.com) will showcase its thirty short-film finalists exclusively on Yahoo!(R) Movies (http://movies.yahoo.com). As the official online sponsor of the Festival, Yahoo! Movies is screening the films, and will be the only place where film enthusiasts can vote on the Festival's pre-selected shorts, many of which are world premieres Noun 1. world premiere - (music) the first public performance (as of a dramatic or musical work) anywhere in the world performance, public presentation - a dramatic or musical entertainment; "they listened to ten different performances"; "the play ran for 100 . Beginning today, anyone can view the films and cast their votes at http://movies.yahoo.com/onlinefilmfest. Top voted films in three categories--short live-action, animation and documentary - as judged by the online audience and the Festival's elite jury, will be shown on the big screen during the upcoming YILOFF live event on March 21 & 22, 2001 at Los Angeles' Director's Guild of America (DGA DGA Directors Guild of America (movie directors union) DGA Délégation Générale pour l'Armement (France) DGA Directeur-Grootaandeelhouder (Dutch: Managing Director and Major Shareholder) ). The Festival also will award one talented filmmaker with the rare opportunity for a pitch meeting with MGM executives. "Our relationship with Yahoo! Movies creates a new stage for filmmakers that has not been available before in traditional film festivals," said Andrew Kramer, Publisher, Yahoo! Internet Life magazine and Executive Producer, Yahoo! Internet Life Online Film Festival. "We are thrilled to showcase these films online to a worldwide audience who will ultimately decide what movies will be part of the Festival's live event in March." "Through the Yahoo! Movies Online Shorts Directory, visitors to Yahoo! Movies have become accustomed to being entertained by the most compelling shorts on the Web," said Jed Rosenzweig, senior producer, Yahoo! Movies. "We're pleased to be working with the Yahoo! Internet Life Online Film Festival again this year to provide visitors to Yahoo! Movies with the opportunity to vote for this year's best short films and animation." Yahoo! Movies is one of the premier film sites on the Web, offering showtimes, a massive film database and online shorts directory, daily news and special features, and links to the best movie related content on Yahoo!, and across the Web. Cast Your Vote Director of Programming, Heather Kellogg, and the Festival screening committee selected the finalist films based on hundreds of submissions. Film finalists will be posted and streamed on Yahoo! Movies beginning February 15 through March 2. Top voted shorts, as selected by the online audience and the Festival's Jury, will be put on the big screen at the DGA during the Festival's live event in Los Angeles. These films, including six Live Action, six Animation and six Documentaries, will be announced on March 12 along with the Festival Overview. Elite Jury Members The Festival Jury is responsible for awarding prizes. This group consists of four elite members from the film industry, Spike Decker (Founder Spike & Mike's Festival of Animation), William Gazecki (Documentary Film Director, Oscar-Nominated Waco: The Rules of Engagement), Duncan North (Screenwriter, The Tao of Steve), and Jami Bernard (Film Critic, Daily News). Pitch Meeting Among Top Festival Prizes Prizes will be awarded to one Live-Action, one Animation, one Documentary and the Jury's pick for "The Filmmaker of the Future" at the Festival Awards Ceremony on March 22. The "Filmmaker of the Future" award given to the short-film director that best exemplifies ingenuity and masterful use of the newest filmmaking film·mak·ing n. The making of movies. technology. This award answers a filmmaker's ultimate goal for a much sought-after pitch meeting with MGM studio executives, courtesy of MGM.com. Premiere leaders in the film industry, Discreet and Sonic Foundry Sonic Foundry is the former developer of various media software suites, which were purchased by Sony in late 2003. Sonic Foundry's current product line consists of the webcasting, presentation software Mediasite. , are also offering valuable packages to winning filmmakers. 30 Short-Film Finalists to be Judged on Yahoo! Movies Live-Action - "Fife" directed by Glenn Ikarra & John Requa (www.ifilm.com) - "Allerd Fishbein's In Love" directed by Danny Greenfield (Atom Films, Apollo Cinema) - "BigLove" directed by Leif Tilden (The Orphanage and Anonymous) - "Shy Guy" directed by Fabien Michel (Bande A Part) - "Zoetrope" directed by Charlie Deaux (Mgp, Inc.) - "Roadside Assistance" directed by Jennifer Derwingson (University Of Southern California) - "Holiday On The Moon" directed by Sam Bozzo (www.Sambozzo.Com) - "Silent Story" directed by Eduardo Cisneros (A Drama 3/4 Production) - "Moment Of Silence" directed by Steven L. Austin (Galt's Gulch Productions) - "Dishpan Man" directed by Hal Long (Hypnotic) - "The Greatest Show On Earth" directed by Anne Paas (Omni Short Films, NYU) - "Days of Being" directed by Chi Yen Ooi (Victorian College of the Arts) - "Team Red" directed by Ann Alter (ifilm.Com)0 Animation - "Titanic: A True Story" directed by Julien Reininger (Guido Films) - "Little G.' directed by Brenden Gallagher (Out To Play Entertainment Inc.) - "I Want A Fat Babe" directed by Regurge (Estudio / Shockwave.Com) - "Dream Detective" directed by Jordan Reicher, created by Robert Williams For other persons of the same name, see Williams (surname). Robert Williams is the name of
- "Romanov: The Epiphany Epiphany (ĭpĭf`ənē) [Gr.,=showing], a prime Christian feast, celebrated Jan. 6, called also Twelfth Day or Little Christmas. Its eve is Twelfth Night. Blues, EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) A PostScript file format used to transfer a graphic image between applications and platforms. EPS files contain PostScript code as well as an optional preview image in TIFF, WMF, PICT or EPSI, the latter being an ASCII-only format. . 15" directed by Chris Lanier (Wildbrain) - "Glue: `It's JJ Monro!' Episode #22" directed by David Fremont (Wildbrain.Com) - "Dog In A Box: Fly Hard" directed by David Kite (Honkworm International) - "Happy Tree Friends Happy Tree Friends is a Flash cartoon series by Mondo Mini Shows, created by Kenn Navarro, Aubrey Ankrum and Rhode Montijo. Warren Graff is also credited in creating Happy Tree Friends. " directed by Rhode Montijo and Kenn Navarro (Mondo mon·do Slang adj. Enormous; huge: a mondo list of pizza toppings. adv. Extremely; very: a mondo big mistake. Media) - "Onion Boy" directed by Charles Alleneck (Cal Arts / Film Roman/Level13.Net) - "Hairballs" directed by Mr. Lawrence and Craig Kellman (Film Roman/Level 13.Net) - "The Future Of: Art" directed by Meats Meier (Atom-Bomb.Com) - "Madison--Episode I" directed by David Carson (Heavy, Inc.) Documentary - "Diary Of An Alien" directed by Ellen Raine-Scott (Lightroom / www.Atom-Bomb.Com) - "Mighty Mutts" directed by Anne Paas (NYU NYU New York University NYU New York Undercover (TV show) ) - `Skid Row skid row a run-down area frequented by alcoholics. [Am. Culture: Misc.] See : Alcoholism Skid Row district of down-and-outs and bums. [Am. Usage: Brewer Dictionary, 1008] See : Failure 2000" directed by Pascal Franchot (Spyworm Inc.) - "One Show Business" directed by Coleman Dekay (Spyworm) - "D-Life - `Free JK' Episode" directed by Chris Walters and Theodore Rozfa (Heavy.Com) YILOFF Sponsors Sponsors for the Festival include TechTV, Covad, Yahoo! Movies, Mandalay, FILMMAKER Magazine, The Hollywood Reporter, indieWIRE, The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times, RES Magazine, and The Sundance Channel. About Yahoo! Internet Life Yahoo! Internet Life (www.yil.com), with a circulation of 1.1 million copies per month, is the world's largest consumer lifestyle magazine covering the Internet. With its mission to entertain, engage, educate and empower Internet enthusiasts, the monthly Ziff Davis Media (Ziff Davis Media Inc., New York, www.ziffdavis.com) A leading integrated media company that serves the computer, videogame and consumer lifestyle markets. Its offerings include PC Magazine and the PCMag.com Network, which includes PCMag.com, ExtremeTech. publication serves the New American ConsumerTM. Reaching one in nine of all daily Internet users Internet user n → internauta m/f Internet user Internet n → internaute m/f in America and read monthly by over 5.3 million people, Yahoo! Internet Life chronicles the culture, content and community of the Internet. Notable accolades include recognition as one of Advertising Age's Best Magazines of 1998; a Circulation Excellence Award from Circulation Management magazine; inclusion as one of Folio (1) Text management software for the professional reference publishing market from Fast Search & Transfer, Oslo, Norway and Boston, MA (www.fastsearch.com). Known as FAST Folio since its acquisition in 2004 from NextPage, Inc. magazine's Top 10 Launches for the 90s; as three consecutive Top 10 Hottest Magazine citations from Adweek; and an award from Capell's Circulation Report as Top 10 Best Performer of 1999. Yahoo! Internet Life has a licensing and promotion agreement with Yahoo.com but remains an editorially independent magazine published by Ziff Davis Media. Yahoo! and the Yahoo! logo are registered trademarks of Yahoo! Inc. All other names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owners. |
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