Winner to receive $10,000, audience
with industry execs and gala
premiere at Rockefeller Center, June 19-22
REDMOND,
Wash.,
May 15, 2007 – Nintendo is searching
for the next great director. Lead by
Nintendo’s flagship store, Nintendo
World, the Nintendo Short Cuts
Showcase invites filmmakers from all
walks of life to demonstrate their
passion and skills by creating a
Nintendo-themed short film or video.
The top three films will be chosen
by a panel that includes a Tribeca
senior programmer, an entertainment
industry reporter and a Nintendo
executive. The final films will
premiere as a part of the inaugural
short film showcase at the Top of
the Rock™ Observation
Deck at Rockefeller Center during Rock Center’s annual summer film showcase, June
19-22.
Sign
up at
www.nintendoshortcuts.com
The first-place winner will be
awarded a $10,000 cash prize along
with a lunch meeting with the
co-founder of the Tribeca Film
Festival, Craig Hatkoff, and a trip
to New York to see the winning entry shown at the Rock Center’s annual summer film showcase. In
addition, the top three winners will
all receive Nintendo hardware and
games.
The short film submissions must be
less than five minutes long and
Nintendo-themed in some way. The
rest is up to the imagination of the
filmmakers, who can explore themes
using the new Wii™ home
video game system, the hand-held
Nintendo DS™ or even
classic Nintendo characters and
systems. The entries can be comedies
or dramas, live action or animated –
the options for cinematic creativity
are almost endless.
“Opening the Nintendo Short Cuts
Showcase to the broader filmmaking
public reflects our message that
video games are fun for everyone,”
explains George Harrison, Nintendo
of America’s senior vice president
of marketing and corporate
communications. “We expect to get
high-quality entries from film
students, indie filmmakers and
creative talents of all kinds that
spark the imagination the same way
our games do.”
For an official entry form, a list
of approved film formats and a list
of the contest rules and
regulations, visit
nintendoshortcuts.com. Filmmakers
must be 18 or older. Entries are due
on or before June 6.
The Nintendo Short Cuts screening at
Top of the Rock will be a special
feature and an addition to the
annual summer film series at Rockefeller Center, a unique outdoor event showcasing
four nights of independent movies.
While at the Top of the Rock, movie
fans can check out a selection of
cool Nintendo World merchandise. And
once folks head back down to ground
level, the full Nintendo World store
is just a few steps away at 10
Rockefeller Plaza.
Nintendo World is Nintendo’s
flagship retail outlet in the
United States.
Located in Rockefeller Center in the heart of New York, Nintendo World offers 10,000 square
feet of hands-on video game
entertainment. People from all
around the world visit the store to
try out new and upcoming Nintendo
video games, purchase unique
Nintendo merchandise or attend one
of the many special events held
there. For more information about
Nintendo World, visit
nintendoworldstore.com.
The
worldwide innovator in the creation
of interactive entertainment,
Nintendo Co., Ltd., of Kyoto, Japan, manufactures and markets
hardware and software for its Wii™,
Nintendo DS™, Game Boy®
Advance and Nintendo GameCube™
systems. Since 1983, Nintendo has
sold nearly 2.2 billion video games
and more than 387 million hardware
units globally, and has created
industry icons like Mario™,
Donkey Kong®, Metroid®,
Zelda™ and Pokémon®.
A wholly owned subsidiary, Nintendo
of America Inc., based in
Redmond, Wash., serves as headquarters for Nintendo’s operations in
the Western
Hemisphere. For more
information about Nintendo, visit
the company’s Web site at
www.nintendo.com.
