Flashforward Film Festival awards ten category winners and one People’s Choice winner representing the best Flash™ design and development work from around the world.

August 22, 2008—San Francisco, CA—The Flashforward Film Festival today announced eleven winners of Big Orange Rubber Arrows. The eleven winners, who represent ten categories of work plus one additional award for the People’s Choice winner, received their Big Orange Rubber Arrows last night at the awards ceremony. The ceremony, part of the Flashforward2008 San Francisco Conference, showcases the best Flash design and development work, organized under a broad spectrum of categories, from around the world. The winners represent the ‘best of the best,’ producing new work from well-known, award-winning teams as well as work from fresh new firms and creative individuals.

“This is where technical achievement crashes head-on with creativity,” said Beau Ambur, CEO Metaliq and Flashforward Conference. “It’s thrilling to see the Flash community push the boundaries—technically, creatively, and geographically—with spectacular results.”

The 11th prize, the People’s Choice Award, honors a project chosen by the global internet community from among the 50 Flashforward Film Festival finalists. All winners as well as the nominees can be viewed at www.flashforwardconference.com/finalists

Winners in the eleven categories are:

 

Category	Submission	Winner	Country
Application	Flash Filter Lab	Visual MINDS	Hungary
Cartoon/Story/Narrative	Bow Street Runner	Littleloud	UK
Code	In an ABSOLUT World	Great Works + carlosulloa.com	Sweden
Experimental/Art	ensemble	Dofl Yun	UK
Game	Ethan Haas Was Right	RED Interactive Agency	USA
Motion Graphics	Audi: Rhythm of Lines.	GT Labs	UK
Navigation/Experience	Spectra Visual Newsreader	Fluid with SS+K	Netherlands
Sound	Audiotool	Hobnox	Germany
Typography	Mutabor Design	superReal GmbH	Germany
Video	Stop Dieting Start Living	Tom Foley	USA
People’s Choice	Twang!	Nitrome	UK

 

The winners of the Flashforward Film Festival, nominated by the creative community for the ten 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 multiple rounds, by 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 Flashforward Film Festival were: Aral Balkan, Pete Barr-Watson, Simon Conlin, Brendan Dawes, Chris Georgenes, Todd Sanders, Samuel Wan, and for the very first time Lynda Weinman.

About the Flashforward Conference and Film Festival
Flashforward is the longest-running and largest Adobe® Flash™ user conference in the world. Flashforward2008 San Francisco, entering its ninth year, is a three-day event filled with sessions led by the world's leading Flash professionals, offering education, best practices, and inspirational case studies in Flash, Flex, ActionScript, and AIR. Flashforward2008 San Francisco, developed and produced by Beau Ambur, in cooperation with the team at Metaliq, includes the international Flashforward Film Festival and Awards ceremony and a Flash-related industry Expo Hall and community center with opportunities for the entire Flash community to network and share knowledge. August 20-22, 2008 Nob Hill Masonic Center, San Francisco.

For more information www.flashforwardconference.com

Flashforward Sponsors
Flashforward2008 San Francisco is supported by Adobe, Metaliq, 24 Seven, Academy of Art, Artisan Creative, Aquent, Electrotank, FlashEff, FILTER, lynda.com, Permission TV, Powerflasher Multimedia, Rackspace, R/GA, Walt Disney Internet Group, Xuinet, Yahoo! Developers Network, and YouTube. Media Partners include Actionscript.org, Flash & Flex Developers Magazine, IdN world, netdiver.net, productionHUB.com, Ribbit Films, and Stash magazine.

For more information www.flashforwardconference.com/sponsors