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Awards
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First Prize, AnimationOn March 16, 2004 The Night Life won First Prize in the Animation category of the 2004 PlanetOut.com Short Movie Awards. |
The jury consisted of seven men and women of exceptional taste:
- Drew Tappon, Vice President of Original Programming and Series Development at MTV
- Mark Reinhart, Executive Vice President of here! Films
- Kelly M DeVine of the Independent Film Channel
- Roberta Marie Munroe, Short Film Programmer at Sundance Film Festival
- Carol Coombes, Program Director of the Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
- Scott Seomin, Entertainment Media Director for the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation
- Marke Bieschke, Editor of Planetout.com and Gay.com
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The Awards were presented at the Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival by (left to right) Mark Elderkin (PlanetOut), Carol Coombes (MGLFF) and Scott Mazer (PlanetOut). You can see QuickTime versions of all the winning films at the 2004 PlanetOut.com awards site. (Photo courtesy of MGLFF) |
Award-winning software
On March 1, 2003 the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awarded an Oscar® for scientific and technical achievement to Alias|WavefrontTM for the development of Maya software. Maya, which may be best known as the software behind the classic gay zombie vampire film-noir comedy The Night Life, has also been used in many other films including Spider-Man and The Perfect Storm.
Although representatives from Greek Chorus Productions, makers of The Night Life, were unable to attend the Scientific and Technical Academy Awards® ceremony, they extend their sincere congratulations to the staff of Alias|Wavefront.