SimsFilmFest Recs! Billie Eilish and a simself trailer

Here is a play within a film for those of you who love the theatre. This is a take off of the old Alfred Hitchc. ock’s movie 'Rope' and has that same noir atmosphere that AH did so well.

Do actors get jealous? Find out here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQ7kn6673Ck

This one scared me... and I wasn't even sure why! Until the very end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvU1FJn2JqY&list=PLb4QplMb7AMCWMthfJbRtR-9wfp7sltIp&index=3

My pick! Cause I love sci fi. This is very well done

Video removed due to content. - EA_Cian

Wow all of these were done well and or had a great twist, thank you so much for linking these. I had never seen them (well except Remi's of course) even though some are years old. I guess they get buried under the most popular stuff when searching. I think I need to look a little harder into finding videos like these. I'm going to at least look up Sims International Film Festival to see what's going on.
Time to get a glass of juice and some popcorn and browse.

Both My Home and Actor were submitted to the festival. A lot of what gets submitted gets lost, probably because it's not the stuff that is popular with younger simmers.

I just found this one and it's amazing.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=fNW5nxZVixY&list=PL8GChwceTFD2EaNMSzdGZEroYHSpI4BrQ&index=6

I obviously have no idea how to embed videos here.

Here we go! A music video found by Jorgha! This is crazy good, the hair and coat move somehow!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNW5nxZVixY

Whoa! I'm blown away by the Harry Styles video! I love Remi, he's the Master in my opinion, but, this creator... I'm speechless... <3

They're all fantastic works of art, better than I could ever do. I'm in awe of their talent and creativity. Thank you so much for sharing! :)

These are amazing! I've never seen any of these creators before, but their work is just incredible, I can't imagine how much time went into these projects. Thanks for sharing!

@KellyWhovian That video is actually what started this discussion. There are many reasons that video makes me angry that I won't get into. We would be here all day.

I have spent the last 7 or so years as part of SimsFilmFest fighting against the kinds of stories that spawned Luumia's video and trying to direct people to well put together machinima wirh good storytelling and original ideas. I have spent countless hours helping people improve their projects.

It is a lot of younger machinima majere making the pregnant teen videos and the like. I don't want to discourage them from telling these stories (something Luumia does with that video) because everyone has to start somewhere and it's what is popular with that crowd and hopefully they will improve. Some of them improve, some of them grow board and stop making machinima. It's just that there is so much of it and it's hard to sift through it all to find anything else. It doesn't surprise me that EA kind of ignores the machinima community these days.

At Simsfilmfest we are currently working on ways to help those that want to watch more mature and better kinds of machinima find it. We've always been focused on helping people improve their machinima making that we forgot about the audience and we want to fix that. We have always promoted and showcased what has been entered into the festival. Holding it twice a year didnt leave time for much else. Now that we have gone to once a year we have more time to devote to other things such as expanding our reach to showcase stuff outside of our festival entries.

Everyone, visit the festival website sometime and see what we do. Go through our archives. Visit the YouTube playlists we're putting together. You might be surprised at how much stuff is out there that is worth watching. I'm not saying everything we get is top quality, but start with the Masters category. From there look and see who won awards and watch their stuff (we really need to work on that section of the site and update it). Check out what we have put in the spotlight playlist at the top of the site. We have a New Machinima playlist on the site where we sift through eveything that has been released and pick out the best stuff. Not everything is abused and/or pregnant and/or runaway teen stories.

I'd never seen the satirical one either - Luumia's that is, but it did make me laugh. I can't say I don't find some of the content about teens/pregnancy/bullies/abuse entertaining (?) sometimes.. and I might have even shed a tear or two watching stuff like that in the past depending on how it was done... but there is just a lot of it so it kind of puts me off from looking because it's all I seemed to be able to find. I'm no where near teenage so maybe that's why it's not appealing? I'm glad you all started this thread and at least know now that there are resources to help me look for other types of videos since search on You Tube doesn't help me. I don't really want to say overall that those videos with that "overdone" subject matter is bad even.. it has an audience and you are right @GLEichholz people have to start somewhere and if that is what draws them that's what they are going to produce. Also .. they might think it's more popular and worthy of producing or mimicking because that's what they see is popular and for some getting watched is the name of the game.
If Luumia's video did start this discussion maybe that's a good thing? It's got some word to a few simmers here anyway... definitely to me.
I don't go to the video section here on the forums much either... to me it's like the build section where most everyone has a self promotion thread. Please don't get me wrong I don't think self promotion is a bad thing but it also makes it hard to just get an overview of what's out there.
I'll be checking out your site specifically more often now. Have you ever thought to start a thread here in the forums to highlight some variety out there? Maybe they can pin it?