Independent Film Internet Awards for 2003 Announced
Norfilms announces the awards for the best web sites promoting the work of independent film producers around the world through the Webcinema network. These awards are given to independent film-makers to acknowledge their efforts to promote independent film productions through their internet sites.
Norfilms are a British company who support the mutual networking of film and television producers, directors, artists through the Webcinema internet network site listing which is hosted at their web site www.norfilms.com. This network brings together film-makers from around the world for mutual support, exchange of advice, news, etc., and provides a support system to the independent production sector away from the mainstream film and TV industries.
This year's awards were made from a list of 53 independent companies around the world reviewed by Norfilms and submitted to them by the from the Webcinema membership. They represent a wide range of skills and professional standards, from one-man home-built sites through to work from professional designers using state-of-the-art techniques.
In all four producers' work was highlighted in this year's awards:
Runners-up were
(1) Wicked Witches Productions
(http://www.members.tripod.com/wickedwitches), a Los Angeles company;
(2) Automatic Films (http://www.automatic.biz/) a Danish web site that, although written entirely in Danish, showed how easy it is to present a small site attractively.
The main runner-up and Flash Award Winner was a
Russian site by Andrey Stankevich (http://www.andreystankevich.com/) who showed how to present information in a simple, attractive fashion and made the effort to provide both English and Russian translations.
The overall winner of this year's awards was a US independent
company Nimble Productions (http://www.nimble-productions.com/).
Although they were a small site they showed that it is possible to
create a site that is both informative, attractive and effective in
presenting information to the public.
The awards have been made on the basis of ease of use, in
navigation, design, technical requirements for a browser, functionality and overall style. Surprises in the review included that fact that some of the more professional site failed to meet all the requirements, being either too elaborate or over-designed for a given function - using elaborate techniques and technology where a simple one would be better.
Full details of the awards and the work of Norfilms are available on
their web site at: http://www.norfilms.com.
