The 9th New Media Film Festival will be held on June 16 – 17th. Honoring Stories Worth Telling

Los Angeles, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 06/04/2018 -- New Media Film Festival is an annual event that merges story and technology on a global scale. This year, the highly anticipated festival will be held on June 16th -17th at the James Bridges Theater, Los Angeles, California.

We know it is about the 110 New Media Films & Content from 40 countries, the 36 World – 7 US and 24 Los Angeles premieres. The teens and the Oscar winners that are part of the nominees, the panelists, the sports legends 5 time X Medalist Elliot Sloan, Olympian Gabby Douglas, legendary talent Jeff Bridges, Edward James Olmos, Ed Asner as well.

There are event Legendary musical artists Mos Def, Foo Fighter keyboardist Rami Jaffee, Marceline the Vampire (aka Olivia Olson), Vanderslice that are all part of the festival this year. Among the 9th season, New Media Session 6 is the one that attracts the most attention because it will showcase entries from several different technologies and countries. The complete lineup of New Media 6: Apps-AI-AR-Digital Comic-Drone-Doc-Mobile-Tablet, Q&A 2:15PM - 4:15PM is as follows:

Apps:
The Me App - Director: Paul Wagner - Country: USA
Eyes of Sky - Director: Eray Dinc - Country: Turkey

AR, AI:
AR - Greetings from Columbus Villa - Director: Christopher Ruane - Country: USA
AI - Smartest S^^t in the Room - Director: Jonathan Kitzen - Country: Canada
AR - What is a Z Book - Director: Allah El Henson - Running time::30 - USA

Digital Comics:
Scrimshaw - Written by: Eric Borden - Country: USA

Documentary:
Life or Death Basically Ep 1 - Director: Alex Hughes - Country: USA
Man-o - Director: Adam Christie - Country: Canada
The Human Link - Country: Canada, Argentina, Spain
T(HE)Y - Director: Caroline Callender & Silver Liftin - Country: USA
The Secret Lives of Public Servants Ep 3 - Director: Amen Jafri - Country: Canada
50/10 Saul Turtletaub - Director: Daniel Smith - Country: USA
Crashed - Olympian Gabby Douglas - Director: David Crabtree - Country: USA

Drone:
Faroe Islands - The Hidden Secret - Director: Thomas Vitali - Country: Faroe Islands
My Alaska - Director: Mike Criss - Country: USA
Dreaming of Peru - Director: Angel E. Vera - Country: Peru

Mobile/Tablet:
Vote for Me - Italy's migrants - Director: Claudio Lavanga - Country: Italy
Creepy Feeling - Director: Jules David - Country: USA

"In the 21st century, technology has strongly redefine filmmaking and storytelling. We want to honor content creators who are brave enough to work outside the boundaries and help aspiring New Media content creators to find more opportunities to develop themselves and their art," said the representative of the festival.

Industry leaders from the Emmys, Grammy, HBO, BMI and Marvel are participating in this festival as judges, which increase the reputation of this annual festival. A total of $45,000 is prepared for the Grand Prize Award winner and also the award winners of each category.

About New Media Film Festival
New Media Film Festival is an event that is dedicated to nurturing new talents and rising content creators in the new media industry. It aspires to provide opportunities for all content creators that submitted their work to the festival instead of just the winners. Participants will have a chance to be invited to reputable movie festival around the world, have their projects funded or win some technological giveaways.

For more information, please visit: www.NewMediaFilmFestival.com

For media inquiries:
New Media Film Festival
2355 Westwood Blvd #381Los Angeles CA 90064
Phone: 310-280-1100
Email: press@newmediafilmfestival.com
Website: www.newmediafilmfestival.com

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Calling for Submissions in Over 20 Categories where a Grand Prize Award Awaits the Best

Los Angeles, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 12/01/2017 -- The New Media Film Festival announced their 9th Annual Festival in June earlier this year. The festival is conducted every year to honor stories that are worth telling – stories that will make the viewers connect with them emotionally. The festival brings together the best in new and inventive media with focus on innovation, imagination and inspiration. The motivation behind this festival is pretty obvious. The festival continues to exhibit the true potential of the new generation movie makers and emphasizes on the scope for improvising the concept of storytelling. The aim of the festival is to discover and nurture the creativity of content creators – both novices and specialists.

The festival calls for entries in over 20 categories. The latest in the categories are Drone and Virtual Reality. No wonder that the Huffington Post said that NMFF "Makes the Cutting Edge Accessible". "The New Media Film Festival seemed like an outlier when it started in 2010, with their strange categories, web series, 3D storytelling, digital comics, now all of a sudden these phrases are the new normal. The NMFF is always looking to the future, challenging creators, the market and the audience to discover new storytelling. There are not many festivals pushing the limits – go NMFF!" says Oscar Winner Nick Reed.

New Media is considered to be the birthplace that cultivates and inculcates new cinematic talent. The festival is famously termed "The Sundance for the Facebook crowd" and is appreciated by the industry for its constant efforts in finding and exploring new talent in filmmaking. Creative film makers can now submit their work and aim for the grand prize worth $45000. The judges at NMFF this year are representatives from the Television Academy, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, Marvel, HBO, etc. The winners and nominees from the Emmys and Oscars will also contribute during the judging process.

To submit the entries or to know more about the festival visit http://www.newmediafilmfestival.com/.

About http://www.newmediafilmfestival.com/
New Media Film Festival, http://www.newmediafilmfestival.com/ based at Los Angeles, California was founded in 2009 to celebrate media that witnesses dynamic changes time after time. An annual event is conducted to honor new media entries in different categories such as shorts, digital comics, web series, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math), Drones, 3D, 5D, features and mobile content.

Contact:
Jan J, Content Coordinator - New Media Film Festival
Address: 2355 Westwood Blvd., #381 Los Angeles CA 90064
Phone: 310-288-1100
Email: Info@NewMediaFilmFestival.com
Website: http://www.newmediafilmfestival.com/

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