ATOMFILMS ANNOUNCE WINNERS OF INTEL INDIES
FILM CONTEST
Hundreds of "magic wand" theme
films submitted from throughout the U.S.
PARK CITY, UT, January 25, 2006
AtomFilms today unveiled the winners of the Intel Indies Film
Contest (http://intel.atomfilms.com)
at an Intel-sponsored event at the Sundance Film Festival. An
experienced panel of film industry judges culled through
hundreds of entries from 40 different states to determine the
winning films. The grand prize winner, Nicholas Worthey,
received $25,000 in cash, $20,000 in Intel® Viiv(TM)
technology-based digital home equipment, and an original content
development deal with AtomFilms Studio.
"AtomFilms has a longstanding
history of opening doors for today's most promising filmmakers
and animators," said Scott Roesch, VP and GM of AtomFilms. "The
Intel Indies Film Contest gave us a great new forum for
discovering and rewarding talented and visionary artists."
Entries were accepted between
September 27, 2005 and November 21, 2005. The entrants were
challenged to create films that imagine what could be
transformed with the touch of a magic wand.
The Winners:
Grand Prize: The Wand, Nicholas J.
Worthey
Whimsical animation in which a man
rules the world with an alien magic wand
Prizes: $25,000 cash, $20,000 in
Intel Digital Home equipment, and a development deal with
AtomFilms Studio for a new film or animation project
First Prize: Lord of the Mop, Alan
Poon
A janitor picks up a conductor's
wand in a music room and finds that it has magical powers
Prize: $10,000 cash
First Prize: Edit Love, Kiyong Kim
A charming, geeky romantic comedy
in which a would-be-boyfriend re-edits his pickup lines on the
fly
Prize: $10,000 cash
"The Intel Indies Film Contest
celebrates the ingenuity and creativity of today's brightest new
filmmakers and the technology that is helping this new
generation of filmmakers create movie magic," said Intel's Kevin
Corbett, vice president, Digital Home Group and general manager,
Content Services Group . "Intel's vision and technology for the
digital home help consumers access and enjoy their favorite
digital content like award-winning projects from AtomFilms any
time, anywhere and on any device."
Judges
The hundreds of entries were
judged by AtomFilms staff, Intel staff, and film industry
experts including:
* Joe Dante, director of Gremlins,
Space Jam, and dozens of other feature films
* Christopher Coppola,
producer-director of Deadfall, Gunfighter, and others
* Elizabeth Stanley, producer &
former assistant director of the Directors Guild of America
* Marcia Zellers, director of the
American Film Institute Digital Content Lab
* Anna Marie Piersimoni, director
of media and technology for the American Film Institute
About AtomFilms
AtomFilms is where the Web goes to
watch movies. Its award-winning Web site (www.atomfilms.com)
offers on-demand viewing of a diverse and distinguished catalog
of more than 1,000 shorts in every genre, enabling new and
innovative artists to reach millions of viewers worldwide. Based
in San Francisco, CA, AtomFilms is a service of digital
entertainment leader Atom Entertainment (formerly AtomShockwave).
For more information, please visit
www.atomfilms.com and
www.atomentertainment.com.
