by Playfuls Staff |
1st May 2006
The winners for Mozilla's creative
Firefox Flicks video contest were finally announced on Friday, at the San Francisco International Film Festival and three prices as well as two honorable mentions were given to five of the about 300 participants. [more]
The "Firefox Flicks" competition allowed Firefox fans from around the world to submit short movies in which they promoted the open-source web browser. The selection was made by a jury and was based on characteristics such as production values, creativity, script or screenplay, choice of soundtrack or jingle, and the use of the Firefox logo throughout the movie.
The Grand Prize was won by
Pete Macomber's "Daredevil" - which will be short-listed for the NY Festival of Advertising's 2006 International Advertising Awards in May. Pete Macomber creates music videos, commercials and screenplays from his Venice, California home "when he is not out chasing waves". According to Mozilla, with "Daredevil", Macomber captures, in documentary-style, the youthful energy and approach to life of a girl whose "other browser is a surfboard".
The Second and Third Places were won by
Jeff Gill with his "Wheee!" and
Andrew N. Green with "Fox Fever". Two Honorable Mentions were also awarded to
Danny Robashkin's "This is Hot" and
Chris Wedding's "Give Me the Soap".
"The response to Firefox Flicks has been fantastic with entries from as far away as Australia, but the unifying theme has been passion," said Asa Dotzler, Mozilla community coordinator. "This contest provided a unique way for our community to become a part of the Mozilla project."
