MILAN MACHINIMA FESTIVAL

Milan, MI, Italy, Europe

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MILAN MACHINIMA FESTIVAL

Milan, MI, Italy, Europe

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General Information

edition

3rd

organizer

Matteo Bittanti

Festival Director

Contact details

Via Carlo Bo, 2 Milan, MI 20143 Italy

20143

mbittanti@gmail.com

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About the festival

The fourth edition of the MACHINIMA FILM FESTIVAL will once again take place at IULM University (Milan, Italy) during the Milano Digital Week, which celebrates the driving forces that are reshaping art, culture, and technology of Italy’s most vibrant city.

Filmmakers and video artists engaged in the practice of appropriating, repurposing, and remixing video games are encouraged to send us their work for consideration. All submissions will be judged by an international panel of jurors comprising scholars, curators, and critics. A Critics' Award will be awarded to the most groundbreaking work.

Screenings of selected machinima will be curated around different themes and presented in different sections. The most interesting submissions are those which seek to capture or highlight a specific facet of contemporary life, from politics to art, from violence to creativity, from technology to ideology, through the aesthetic lenses of digital gaming.

The deadline for submissions is December 15, 2020. 

The full program will be announced in February 2021

Please carefully read our simple submission guidelines and requirements below before sending your work.

Critics' Award.

Awarded by an international jury featuring scholars and critics.

About

The fourth edition of the MACHINIMA FILM FESTIVAL will once again take place at IULM University (Milan, Italy) during the Milano Digital Week, which celebrates the driving forces that are reshaping art, culture, and technology of Italy’s most vibrant city.

Filmmakers and video artists engaged in the practice of appropriating, repurposing, and remixing video games are encouraged to send us their work for consideration. All submissions will be judged by an international panel of jurors comprising scholars, curators, and critics. A Critics' Award will be awarded to the most groundbreaking work.

Screenings of selected machinima will be curated around different themes and presented in different sections. The most interesting submissions are those which seek to capture or highlight a specific facet of contemporary life, from politics to art, from violence to creativity, from technology to ideology, through the aesthetic lenses of digital gaming.

The deadline for submissions is December 15, 2020. 

The full program will be announced in February 2021

Please carefully read our simple submission guidelines and requirements below before sending your work.

Critics' Award.

Awarded by an international jury featuring scholars and critics.

Awards & Winners

There are no winners yet for this festival

Terms and rules

INTERNATIONAL OPEN CALL FOR NEW MEDIA ARTWORKS GUIDELINES:

The MILAN MACHINIMA FESTIVAL defines machinima as any digital video made using video games technology (game engines, game tools, assets such as characters, items, environments etc.).

Submissions must feature machinima made with specifically with video games (not virtual worlds, e.g. Second Life).

Submissions must be 10 minutes or less in length. The minimum duration is 2 minutes.

Submissions must have been produced between January 1, 2020 and December 15, 2020.

Multiple versions of the same machinima will not be considered.

Acceptable submission formats: Digital video files only.

Acceptable exhibition formats: mp4, avi, mpg, Quicktime file (ProRes 422).

All applicants must complete the official festival submission form located on filmfreeway.com

One-time, nominal submission fee: 15 euros payable via PayPal to the festival organizers. Submissions that have not been accepted will not be refunded.

The applicant holds the sole responsibility of copyright clearance of any copyrighted material in the machinima.

The submission must include an accompanying artist statement/description no longer than 500 words.

The MMF is under no obligation to provide comments regarding submitted machinima to any applicant.

Submission deadline: December 15, 2020

Ratings & Reviews

Categories and fees

Machinima
Early Bird (15th August, 2020) €1,266
Regular (1st February, 2021) €1,266
Late (14th March, 2021) €1,266

Game-based digital film
Early Bird (15th August, 2020) €1,266
Regular (1st February, 2021) €1,266
Late (14th March, 2021) €1,266

Short movies made with video games

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