After more than 400 entries, we are thrilled to announce the 2013 Firefox Flicks Competition Grand Prize, Regional, and People’s Choice Award Winners at the Toronto International Film Festival. The chosen films are a mix of early entry winners and awesome new arrivals that truly capture the essence of “get mobilized” in humorous, creative and meaningful ways. The films show how the power of the Web on mobile phones to discover, manage, enjoy and share content that can change people’s lives.
Since kicking off the competition on February 13th, we’ve seen some incredible flicks and given out some awesome prizes! Each early entry winner received $1,000, the People’s Choice winners were each given an exclusive Flicks swag bag, the Regional Winners received $5,000, the Regional runners up received $2,500 and finally the Grand Prize: The winner (or winning team) will fly to Los Angeles to work with producers (and Flicks judges) Franklin Leonard and Couper Samuelson, and representatives from Panavision to professionally produce their winning entry. Timing allowing, the winning team will also get a one-day training session at the Dolby Institute in LA, as well as an invitation to a movie premiere and after-party at the Dolby Theater. To top it off, all flicks will be posted on Mozilla’s channels for millions to see!
To celebrate all of these remarkable winners, Mozilla held a ‘Flicks Premiere Party’ at the acclaimed Toronto International Film Festival where the six winning films were screened for the Flicks judges, past winners, film talent and industry insiders. Check out the winning Flicks below and join us in congratulating these amazing winners!
Firefox Flicks 2013 Winners and Judges
We want to give a HUGE thank you to everyone involved with this year’s competition. We couldn’t have done it without our amazing panel of judges, our sponsors and all of you who entered and voted for these flicks.
For a full list of winners and runners up, see below and please visit: firefoxflicks.mozilla.org/en-US/
Grand Prize
Spot the Difference (Poland)
Leopold Abai, Jean-Pierre Labarre, Miłosz Kosicki
Spot the difference from firefoxflicks on Vimeo.
North America Regional Winner
Winner: The Whole is Greater (United States)
David Pestka, Aaron McFarlane, Stan Pestka
Runner-Up: Scooter (United States)
Samuel Thomas, United States
LatAm Regional Winner
Winner: Tortillas on the Go (Mexico)
Alberto García Ballesteros, Eszter Szigethy, César Rafael Rodríguez Ángeles, Ignacio Alberto Vega Bahena
Runner-Up: Beyond the Limit (Mexico)
Fabián Eduardo Ramírez Barreto
Europe, Middle East, Africa Regional Winner
Winner: Be a Part of It – Get Mobilized (Germany)
Marvin Nuecklaus
Runner-Up: Be Part of It (United Kingdom)
Andrei Stan
Asia Pacific Regional Winner
Winner: The Anniversary (Singapore)
Kevin Kristian, Made Surya Adhiwirawan
Runner Up: Stand by You Always (Japan)
Kei Shimoda
People’s Choice Award Winners
Anyone, Anywhere (Taiwan)
Cheng-pin Chia
The Right Way (Italy)
Giuseppe Gallo and Angela Catalano
Spot the Difference (Poland)
Leopold Abai, Jean-Pierre Labarre, Miłosz Kosicki