The 'Stars and Storm 2013' Movies FR competition now launched

A new machinima competition called 'The Stars and Storm 2013' has now been launched by The Movies FR (the French speaking community for The Movies, Moviestorm and Muvizu).

Alutt, admin of The Movies FR, said:

"After the first edition of Stars and Storm in 2010 which had great success, the French-speaking Moviestorm community felt it was about time to launch a new edition of this international contest.

"The Old Times theme condition came to us as we were looking for a concept that could gather various genre or subject of movies.

"In addition, we wanted to erase the language barrier, so the no dialogues idea emerged as a second condition."

The registration period for the competition runs from July 21st to September 30th, and the winners will be published in the results on October 15th.

Alutt added:

"The Movies FR has been a strong supporter of Moviestorm since 2008 and this contest is an occasion to encourage all users, including new ones, to create movies.

"It's also the occasion to acknowledge and encourage the great contribution of some very talented modders such as our partners Shirley Martin (Squirrelygirl) and Chris Ollis. It will also be a good occasion to enjoy new movies from all over the world and spend some good time creating or watching them."

More details about the competition can be found on the following forum here

Competition conditions:

The general conditions to enter the competition will be:
- free subject or genre but in adequation with a general theme : "Old Times"
- maximum one movie per director
- the movie must not have been published on the internet before 2013 - to enter the competition, directors must post a presentation of the film and a link towards the film on the special Stars and Storm topic on TMFR (so they will have to create a free account if they don't have one yet)

Prizes:
1^st prize:
1) 3000 MS points on content packs from Moviestorm: http://www.moviestorm.co.uk/hub/content_packs?cat=0
2) The all 6 exclusifs French mods on TMFR made by Cinecitta: http://www.themovies.fr/viewtopic.php?t=6601
3) a £25 gift voucher on Moddingstorm by Chris Ollis: http://www.moddingstorm.co.uk/getmods.shtml

2^nd prize:
1) 3000 MS points on content packs from Moviestorm: http://www.moviestorm.co.uk/hub/content_packs?cat=0
2) The all 6 exclusive French mods on TMFR made by Cinecitta: http://www.themovies.fr/viewtopic.php?t=6601
3) a $30 gift voucher on Mods and More by Squirrelygirl: http://www.modsnmore.net/moviestorm/

3^rd prize:
1) 3000 MS points on content packs from Moviestorm: http://www.moviestorm.co.uk/hub/content_packs?cat=0
2) The all 6 exclusive French mods on TMFR made by Cinecitta: http://www.themovies.fr/viewtopic.php?t=6601
3) a $15 gift voucher on Mods and More by Squirrelygirl: http://www.modsnmore.net/moviestorm/


Further links

The Movies FR website: http://www.themovies.fr
Vimeo link: https://vimeo.com/themoviesfr
More competition information: http://bit.ly/1b40OvE

"GRAND PALMARÈS 2012" (2012 Palms of the Year) Movies FR Moviestorm Winners Announced

Moviestorm are pleased to announce the winners of the 2012 Palms of the Year awards via The Movies FR, (the French speaking community for The Movies, Moviestorm and Muvizu). 

Alutt, The Movies FR community admin, had this to say of the awards: 

"Once again, website THE MOVIES FR organised its annual celebration "Le Grand Palmarès 2012" (2012 Palms of the year). The winners of our seasonal contests of the year 2012, in each 10 categories (best scenery and costumes, direction, editing, soundtrack, script, character, dialogues, voice performance, movie and special prize of the public), were in competition for the Palms."

"After the winners were announced, they were rewarded with prizes (exclusive MODS for The Movies and Moviestorm, DVD's, theatre tickets, board games and, thanks to our partner Moviestorm, some MS points and a perpetual license.”

Winners of the awards are listed below:

Best Movie and Best Direction: Laviv42 with "La Colline a des Yeux 3" (using The Movies software) is awarded 12 000 MSP. http://www.moviestorm.co.uk/community/?u=laviv42

Best Scenery and Costumes: Michael Mayers with "From Hell" (using The Movies software) wins 1000MSP and donates these to Vincent C.  http://www.moviestorm.co.uk/community/?u=VincentC

Best Editing: Frederis with "No Man's Land I : la Première Fois" (The Movies software) is also awarded 1000 MSP. http://www.moviestorm.co.uk/community/?u=frederis

Best Soundtrack, Best Voice Performance and Special Public Prize goes to user Wabby with "Libre Arbitre" (using Moviestorm software) who wins 3000 MSP. http://www.moviestorm.co.uk/community/?u=wabby

Best Script and Best Character: Gilga with " Dernière Ligne" (The Movies software) and is awarded 2000 MSP. http://www.moviestorm.co.uk/community/?u=gilga

Best Dialogue: Code52 with "Huit petits Gags" (The Movies software) and is awarded 1000 MSP. http://www.moviestorm.co.uk/community/?u=code52

Further links

The Results Video Show is available here (in French only but directed with Moviestorm): http://www.dailymotion.com/video/k2vwA5OT4KQVD63Skfl#.UVLeBlc6fxw

The Movies FR website: http://www.themovies.fr

Vimeo link: https://vimeo.com/themoviesfr