NewsReel 12.11.07

Donkey Kong scaffolding

In honour of the trailer for ‘The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters’ appearing in this month’s Reel as part of our Moxie Pictures feature, the Computerspiele Museum in Berlin erected a scaffolding and, with a few strategically placed printed canvas covers, turned it into a level screen of the uber video game, Donkey Kong. Alternatively, it could be that the building is undergoing a much-needed facelift and it’s an exceedingly clever way of promoting the soon to be re-opening gaming Mecca whilst utilising the essential but ugly scaffolding. You decide…

LINKS:
www.billyvssteve.com/

www.computerspielemuseum.de/english.html

Jonas&François win at MTV Europe Music Awards

We must be expressing our narcissistic tendencies this week because ‘Star Video’ winners at the MTV Europe Music Awards in Munich on 1^st November, Jonas&Francois, were featured in September’s Reel for their Kanye West ‘Good life’ video. The directing duo from Elnino @ 75 won the award for their clip for ‘D.A.N.C.E’ by the French group Justice. As with West’s video, they collaborated with art designers SoMe and the jaw-dropping result can be viewed below.

LINKS:

www.elnino.tv

www.75.tv

www.irene.fr

http://ema.mtv.co.uk/

Weekly short film festival

Short and Sweet, the only weekly short film festival in London, has been going from strength to strength since its launch nearly a year and a half ago. In July it expanded into the West End and now runs on Mondays on Brick Lane and Tuesdays at AKA WC1. Founder Julia Stephenson and her small team work tirelessly to deliver the best in short films, music videos and animation from around the globe, with the intention to inspire, unearth some of the best new talent around and provide a great and FREE place to network.

This week it features films from:

Tim Hamilton, Sil Van Der Woerd, Romain Segaud, Dave Waters, Keidrych Wasley (cinematographer) and Gergely Cziràki

EVERY MONDAY:

Venue: Cafe 1001, 91 Brick Lane

Time: Films START at 19h30

EVERY TUESDAY:

Venue: AKA Bar, 18 west central street

Time: Films START at 19h00

LINKS:
www.shortandsweet.tv

For more info contact:

ben@shortandsweet.tv

julia@shortandsweet.tv

Meribel entries closed

Entries for the competitions at this year’s Meribel ad festival have now closed. It’ll be the 11^th December and you’ll be drinking cocktails and chucking snowballs at each other in no time…just remember what your mothers told you and watch out for the yellow snow.

LINKS:
http://www.meribel-adfestival.com/