Mozilla Foundation named the winners of its Firefox Flicks video contest at the San Francisco International Film Festival last week.
Nearly 300 Firefox fans submitted entries in the competition to promote the open source Latest News about open source browser through short film.
The Grand Prize went to “Daredevil,” which will be short-listed for the NY Festival of Advertising’s 2006 International Advertising Awards in May, according to Mozilla. The finalists’ videos will be used in Mozilla’s 2006 Firefox marketing activities, the company said.
* “Daredevil” by Pete Macomber took the Grand Prize.
Macomber creates music videos, commercials and screenplays from his Venice, Calif., home when he is not out chasing waves, according to Mozilla, which notes that with “Daredevil,” he captures in documentary style the youthful energy and approach to life of a girl whose “other browser is a surfboard.”
* Second Place went to “Wheee!” by Jeff Gill.
* “Fox Fever” by Andrew N. Green took Third Place.
* Honorable Mentions were given to “This is Hot” by Danny Robashkin and “Give Me the Soap” by Chris Wedding.
Rock on!
“This is hot” blows away the others.
“Daredevil” is good.. It’s simple and to the point and what a commercial should be.. But being a CGI enthusiast, I think “This is Hot” is a killer.
Oh, and “Whee!” made me laugh my fool ass off. 🙂
It’s just a browser.
I think This is Hot was pretty impressive, I think I would’ve gone with that one for a winner.
Daredevil was OK, but it just seemed a little pretentious to me. I dunno.
Wheee made me laugh though.
But, is “Wheee!” going to apeal to the masses? Oh, and where was the O?
Daredevil was a nice little video, but I wouldn’t have picked it. Whee! made me laugh like hell, but I wouldn’t have picked it. I’d definitely gone with This is Hot. As far as commercials go, it totally blew the others away.
BTW, watching the Daredevil video, what the hell is going on with commercials these days that you have no idea what you’re watching a commercial for, until the very end? Are commercials the next art form?
“Are commercials the next art form?”
The “next” art form? Where ya been, Sean? 🙂