Press Release

Flashforward Film Festival Awards 16 Big Orange Rubber Arrows

Flashforward Film Festival awards fifteen category winners and one People's Choice winner representing the best Flash® design and development from around the world.

September 20, 2007—Ventura, California The Flashforward Conference & Film Festival today announced all sixteen winners of Big Orange Rubber Arrows. The winners, who represent fifteen categories of work, accepted their awards September 19th at the live Flashforward Film Festival. The ceremony, which took place during the Flashforward2007 Boston Conference, showcases the best Flash design and development from around the world. The winners lead the ‘best of the best,’ producing new work from well-known, award-winning teams as well as work from fresh new firms and individuals. This year’s winners represent a wide array of work from commercial projects created by Advertising Agencies to highly personal work created by individuals—and everything in between.

“Each year the body of work submitted to the Flashforward Film Festival pushes the creative and technical limits of Flash,” said Lynda Weinman, CEO, lynda.com events, Inc. “We’re seeing more work submitted from the advertising world and at the same time deeply personal projects—both of which push and set the boundaries of Flash leading the industry to a new set of standards.”

The work in the Flashforward Film Festival is nominated by the creative community and finalists for the fifteen categories are chosen by a panel of expert judges. Flashforward Film Festival judges are chosen in advance of the Festival judging process. Festival nominations are judged in two rounds, by two separate panels of judges. None of the judges evaluate their own work, ensuring that each finalist has won the approval of several experienced and aesthetically diverse perspectives. Judges for the 17th Flashforward Film Festival were: Chris Allen, Aral Balkan, Jacob Bullock, Sandro Corsaro, Renee Costantini, Alec Cove, Loc Dao, Steven de la Torre, Peter Elst, Jared Ficklin, Chris Georgenes, Chafic Kazoun, Mario Klingemann, Jay Laird, Seb Lee-Delisle, Marc Leuchner, Tony MacDonell, Niqui Merret, Dominic Minns, Garrett Nantz, Chad Perkins, John Say, Dave Schroeder, Daniel Schutzsmith, Rich Shupe, Aaron Simpson, Colin Smith, Bill Spencer, David Stiller, Ben Stucki, Jeremy Thorp, Drew Trujillo, and Carlos Ulloa.

The 16th prize, the People’s Choice Award, honors a project chosen by the global internet community from among the 60 Flashforward Film Festival finalists. All winners as well as the nominees can be viewed at www.flashforwardconference.com/winners

The winners in fifteen categories plus the People’s Choice winner are:

3D: Papervision3D, Papervision3D Team
ART: Creep, Monkeehub
CARTOON: Congo Windfall, Bernard Derriman
COMMERCE: Nike Air, Big Spaceship
EXPERIENCE: Get the Glass, Goodby, Silverstein & Partners
GAME: CDX, Preloaded
INSTRUCTIONAL: BrainPOP, BrainPOP
MOTION GRAPHICS: Adobe-The Creative Mind, unit9/Goodby, Silverstein & Partners
NARRATIVE: NFB - Filmmaker in Residence, Loc/Rob/Sean/Gerry/Kat
NAVIGATION: LAB | Mathieu Badimon, Mathieu Badimon
ONLINE APPLICATION: Shaw Floors: Try On A Floor, Resource Interactive
ORIGINAL SOUND: Move the Crowd, Andrew Langley
TECHNICAL MERIT: Finetune Player Collection, Finetune & Teknision
TYPOGRAPHY: Javier Ferrer Vidal, Medios y Proyectos
VIDEO: Toyota Yaris Virtual Test Drive, Hello Design
PEOPLE'S CHOICE: 30 Shorts in 30 Days, Adam Phillips

About the Flashforward Film Festival

The 17th Flashforward Film Festival honors the best Adobe® Flash® work on the web. Nominated by the public and judged by a panel of Flash experts, all finalists are eligible for the People’s Choice award. The Flashforward Film Festival culminates in a live awards ceremony, held during the Flashforward2007 Boston Conference. Finalists’ work is showcased at the ceremony resulting in 15 professionally judged winners and the People’s Choice award, determined by a public online vote. Winners receive the prestigious “Big Rubber Arrow” representing the best in state-of-the-art Flash design and development for the web, from around the world and within the Flash community.

For more information www.flashforwardconference.com/about_festival

Flashforward Sponsors

Flashforward2007 Boston is supported by key industry partners led by Platinum Sponsor, Adobe and lynda.com; Gold Sponsor, Quark; Internet Lounge and King’s Party Sponsor, Walt Disney Internet Group; Opening Night Party Sponsor, Thumbplay; Expo-Sure Time Party Sponsors, Arnold and Bricka Bracka; Bookstore Sponsor, Peachpit; Job Fair Presenting Sponsor, Imc2; WiFi Sponsor, Influxis, Hardware Sponsor, Dell and; Media Sponsors: GraphicDefine, Netdiver, ProductionHUB, StashTV, TechTracker, and Vuvox.

For more information www.flashforwardconference.com/sponsors

Contact: press@flashforwardconference.com