User:Nmff/New Media Film Festival

The New Media Film Festival is an event held annually on May 20 and May 21 at the Los Angeles Film School in Hollywood, California. It showcases 3D and animated shorts, web series, mobile media, apps, and music videos, awarding over $12,000 in prizes and offering distribution to non-traditional and web-based filmmakers of the digital era.

Event features
The event screens more than a dozen select submissions from around the world, often featuring well-known actors and industry professionals in addition to student filmmakers. The Festival also includes world premieres and discussion panels. Films submitted to the Festival are reviewed by a panel of judges including Lorne Lanning, Spencer Halpin, and a variety of other Oscar, Grammy, and Sundance winners and nominees.

Awards presented
Awards are given out in the following categories at the conclusion of the Festival: Winners in each category are viewed by a distributor with a chance of online, TV or theatrical distribution in addition to monetary prizes. Each category’s winner is included in the “Best of LA” screening series, submitted to additional festivals worldwide.
 * 3D Shorts
 * 3D Features
 * Animation
 * Apps
 * Digital Comics
 * Documentary
 * Feature
 * LGBT
 * Mobile
 * Music Video
 * Shorts
 * Webisode
 * Web Series

History
The New Media Film Festival premiered to critical acclaim in June 2010, followed by a corollary event in San Francisco in 2010. The Festival was founded by Susan Johnston of Select Services Films, who became its director.