Held annually in Los Angeles, CA, the festival has a wide-array of categories available for submission, reflecting the current state of content creation.
It showcases 3D and animated shorts, web series, mobile media, apps, and music videos, awarding over $45,000 in prizes and offering distribution to non-traditional and web-based filmmakers of the digital era.
In 2009 New Media Film Festival was announced in Second Life as part of the C3 – United Nations – Millennium Project as an annual event.
The event screens more than a dozen select submissions from around the world, often featuring well-known actors and industry professionals in addition to student filmmakers.
Films submitted to the Festival are reviewed by a panel of judges including Pixar, The Caucus, Industrial Light & Magic Lorne Lanning, Spencer Halpin, and a variety of other Oscar, Grammy, and Sundance winners and nominees.