FREE Screening Series in Century City - Best of New Media Film Festival Los Angeles OCT

 
 
 
October 2011
The Best Of New Media Film Festival Los Angeles Screening Series
6:30PM –Networking | Screening Begins at 7PM | October 17, 2011
Grand Prize 2011 –
Moral Kombat
2009 | USA | 82min | Dir. Spencer Halpin
 
Moral Kombat takes a look into the controversial subject of violence in video games and examines the conflict between the game developers rights to create and its potential impact on children. Video game creator Lorne Lanning (Oddworld Series including Oddworld: Abe’S Oddysee), and director/filmmaker Spencer Halpin of the controversial violence in videogaming documentary Spencer Halpin's Moral Kombat, will be joining founder/director Susan Johnston for the 2nd Annual New Media Film Festival, to be held May 20-21, 2011. Showcasing the best in new media and featuring award-nominated and winning filmmakers, the New Media Film Festival is dedicated to the creation, development, and distribution of new media content in all forms and across all platforms.
 
With a decision forthcoming from The Supreme Court of the United States (Schwarzenegger v. Entertainment Merchants Association), Spencer Halpin’S Moral Kombat is a timely and polarizing look at video games, containing interviews with experts on both sides of the matter, some believing that violent games should be banned, others supporting their protection under the First Amendment. With the help of Ramy Katrib of Digital Film Tree LLC, Spencer Halpin shot the film entirely in high-definition video, making extensive use of green screen technology to blend the subject matter being discussed (games, characters, archival news footage) in the background, while keeping the interviewee actively in the shot. Game and content creator Lorne Lanning had served on the Board of Directors of the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences. He was the co-founder of Oddworld Inhabitants, which has sold over 6 million games and won more than 100 industry awards, and, most recently, he co-founded new company OddMobb, Inc. based in Emeryville, Ca.