Peter Greenaway, the acclaimed British director of The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover with Helen Mirren, and The Pillow Book with Ewan McGregor, will be a judge on the 48 Hour Machinima Film Project I mentioned last week. Greenaway is probably the most renowned real life film director ever to judge a machinima contest, so this is a great recognition for the medium. That it's Greenaway is not entirely surprising, because as 48 Hour curator Chantal Harvey notes, Greenaway has been involved in other machinima/Second Life art projects, registering his support for the embattled Second Life art of Rose Borchovski, and with The Blue Planet, a multimedia theatrical production by Greenaway and Saskia Boddeke which incorporates Second Life machinima. Knowing this background, Chantal contacted the director about joining the panel, and is duly stoked to have him involved: "To have a real life filmmaker in the jury is like a major recognition for the teams and their work, and [machinima] being the creative new way for young people to film -- makes this so very different."
And now you have another reason to join the contest: Go here for all the details and to start the sign-up process.
Blue Planet is not by Peter Greenaway.
Posted by: Giovanni | Friday, August 27, 2010 at 11:39 AM