Jury Finalists Selected for Machinima Expo 2008

The Machinima Expo is proud to announce that 13 films out of 130 submitted to this year’s Expo have been sent to the jury for their consideration. 10 films were chosen for the general machinima category and 3 films from the Canadian film category.

We are very proud of these films which we fell represents in various ways the very best of what machinima is capable of. We’d also like to say that several films that are being screened at the festival just barely missed being added to the jury list, the quality was so good. Congratulations to the nominees!

The ten jury nominated films are (in alphabetical order):

AMONG FABLES & MEN

Director(s) Tobias Lundmark, Mads Lund

BEAST

Director Leo Lucien-Bay

CLEAR SKIES

Director Ian Chisholm

THE DUMB MAN

Director Trace Sanderson

LIBERTY CITY

Director Claus-Dieter Schulz

THE SNOW WITCH

Director Michelle Pettit-Mee

THIS SPARTAN LIFE, EPISODE 6

Director Chris Burke

TINY NATION

Director Kerria Seabrooke

AN UNFAIR WAR

Director Thuyen Nguyen

THE WIZARD OF OS: THE FISH INCIDENT

Director Tom Jantol

3 Canadian Nominations

TURBULENCE

Director J. Rojas

BOOMERANG

Director Aaron Jeans

A TOUCH TOO MUCH

Director Bill Klimke