Looking for the Truth

My 14" film, "Looking For The Truth", will be screened on Saturday 18th June at Club Karlson in the Netherlands Media Art Institute building, Keizersgracht 264, Amsterdam, as part of the Ma Machinima International Film Festival.

The Festival runs from 1.00pm Friday 17 June to 01.00am on Sunday 19 June (and continues until 04.30am online)

My film, made with Moviestorm 1.2, is in Machinima Film Block 4, which screens on Saturday between 10.00pm - 11.30PM local time (Holland is BST +1)

If you can't make it to Amsterdam on Saturday, don't despair: the festival is streaming live in Second Life and on the world wide web.

Information about the festival, including live streams, can be found on the MMIF website: http://mmif.wordpress.com/program/

Notes from a Small Island

There's an interesting ex-patriate story in a recent edition of The Daily Telegraph about a Scotsman who emigrated to New Zealand and then became a volunteer IT trainer in The Republic of Vanuatu, a group of islands in the South Pacific formerly known as the New Hebrides.

What's particularly interesting is that the ex-pat is using Moviestorm as a machinima platform with the youth group members of an educational theatre group, the Wan Smolbag Theatre, based in Vanuatu's capital, Port Vila.

The Telegraph article is here: Making Movies in Vanuatu.

Some of the youth group's work can be seen here: Moviestorm Animation Club. These young machinimators are modding Moviestorm and using Google Sketchup to create their own props.

Here's the first film they made (it shows the Wan Smolbag Theatre); check out the modding:



Their most recent production is here:



Here's is a link to the Wan Smolbag Theatre group's moviestorm channel: WanSmolbag. The ex-pat in question, btw, is John Herd, better known to those who frequent the Moviestorm forums as Primaveranz.