Announcement of Cliffs of Dover Movie Competition

The Board of Directors of the Flight Sim Movies website hereby announces a.....

Cliffs of Dover Movie Competition

Procedures and rules as indicated below:

Virtual Awards:

The 1st Place Winner will receive the coveted Flight Sim Movies Gold Eagle Award:

 Runners up will receive the virtual Silver Eagle Award:

 Additional virtual awards, as deemed warranted by the Judging Panel, may be made for specific categories of movie-making, such as for any individual uniquely artistic and/or technical achievement.

Tangible PRIZES:

A total of at least $250 USD will be presented by the FSM Board, as sponsored by Joe90's Wee Bit Studios and other individual FSM Board Directors. The amount will be disbursed at the discretion of the Judging Panel to the top three Winning movies:
First Place: $75 minimum
Second Place: $50 minimum
Third Place: $25 minimum

1C Company, as co-sponsor of the Competition, will provide additional Prizes for each of the top three Winning movies:
First Place: "Complete 1C Collection Pack" from Steam
Second Place: Five Downloadable games from the 1C Steam Catalogue (Valued at up to $175 USD)
Third Place: Two Downloadable games from the 1C Steam Catalogue (Valued at up to $70 USD)

Additional tangible FSM monetary and/or 1C Company Game awards, as deemed warranted by the Judging Panel, may be made for specific categories of movie-making, such as for any individual uniquely artistic and/or technical achievement or Story.

Additional prizes may become available during the course of the competition, and will be announced in the future, and any additional sponsors willing to offer a tangible prize should contact the Competition Administrator at the 1C Forums (DoolittleRaider).

The Winning Movie will be showcased with the Best of the Best at the Flight Sim Movies website, as well as being automatically considered there for the possible award of a virtual Golden Oleg or Silver Oleg.

 Other outstanding entries will be considered by the FSM Board for showcasing at FSM.

Entering the Competition…and deadlines:

Effective immediately you can enter the competition merely by posting your high resolution movie entry at the 1C Company "COD Movie Competition Entries and Discussion" thread, with an embedded link to your Movie at either Youtube or Vimeo or BlipTv.

Movie-Making Forum created at Cliffs of Dover Website

A “Movie-Making and Videos" sub-forum has been established at the 1C Company official COD forum, strictly for COD-based movies and videos, and related discussions on movie/video making.

Here is a link to the 1C sub-forum: http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/forumdisplay.php?f=207

It is hoped that the new sub-forum will encourage creation of more Cliffs of Dover high quality Movies, in addition to the plethora of raw In-Game or Gameplay COD Videos found on YouTube.

Flight Sim-based TV show being produced

Tinus Le Roux (aka biltongbru), one of our FSM Board Directors is producing a pilot TV episode intended for possible presentation on South African TV, using the “IL-2 Sturmovik” and “IL-2 Sturmovik Cliffs of Dover”  flight sims as the primary source of aerial combat visuals.

The 30 minute long pilot episode is tentatively entitled “Pattle” and is intended to be the first in a series of episodes relating the stories of South African WWII fighter aces, in this case RAF Squadron Leader Marmaduke Thomas St. John "Pat" Pattle. Tinus is known in the Flight Sim movie-making community as an expert in composite imaging, using aircraft models as well as game-captured footage, and also green-screening of live actors; this TV production will have extensive live acting sequences by a cast of South African actors.  Tinus is producing this TV show with the extensive cooperation and participation of the South African School of Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance (AFDA)  http://www.afda.co.za/   Another of our FSM Directors, Bruce Wallace (aka Wiley/Doolittle81), is assisting Tinus on this project, primarily in matters of historical research and screenwriting.  It is anticipated that the production might be completed as early as June 2012.

First Golden Oleg of 2011 awarded to Barfly

The first Golden Oleg of 2011 has been awarded to Barfly for his newest movie, “Battle of Britain: Kanalkampf”.

This is the first Oleg awarded for a “Cliffs of Dover” (COD) flight sim movie. Although hundreds of videos have appeared on YouTube since the release of “IL2 Sturmovik-Cliffs of Dover” in March 2011, the overwhelming majority consist of raw game ‘footage’ lacking story, as well as exhibiting only limited editing and cinematography techniques. Thus far, only four “COD” movies have met the high standard for showcasing here at the Flight Sim Movies website.

“An Irish Airman Foresees His Death” selected for showing at Italian Film Festival

The “Rise of Flight” flight sim-based movie “An Irish Airman Foresees His Death” by FSM Director Russell Boyd (aka Joe90), released in July 2010, has been selected for showing at the ARES Film & Media Festival · Siracusa, Italy

http://www.facebook.com/pages/ARES-Film-Media-Festival/120459764665059

“Faith, Hope and Charity" added at IMDb.

The epic IL-2 movie, “Faith, Hope, and Charity”, first released in 2007, has been added to the IMDb database http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1909764/

It is believed that this is the first flight sim-based movie to be included at IMDb.