SimsFilmFest Recs! Billie Eilish and a simself trailer

@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.