French film about riots draws applause

[Selatius]

PARIS - The coverage didn't cut it, Alex Chan felt, so he decided to tell his version of the recent violence that rocked his suburb north of Paris.

But rather than a blog or video diary, he turned to a new computer game that allows players to produce a short film and post it online.

He made it with English subtitles "to correct what was being said in the media, especially in the United States, who linked what was happening, the riots, to terrorism and put the blame on the Muslim community," said Chan, a practicing Buddhist.

Produced in just a week and released Nov. 22, his short film has been hailed as a breakthrough for the obscure technique known as machinima — the use of characters, sets and scenes culled from video games to create an original film.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051214/ap_en_mo/film_french_riots_movie

FUCK RACISM. I hate it. I was born in the US to Vietnamese parents. As a minority, I am simply riled to the point of rage over this kind of stupidity.

Go here to see the film:

http://movies.lionhead.com/movie/11520

[Autumn Colors]

1. It's great to see this being used for important causes

As a member of the machinima community, I was blown away by that film. The Movies (the game) was just released and already, there are some very talented people using it very creatively. I hope this media will grow into an important tool for informing the public in the future.

I'm voicing a role in a series ("Elm Way") debuting in 2006 that is also using video capture from The Movies game. I have yet to see any of the visuals for it, but it's been exciting to see what others have done with it so far.

http://elmway.bigpushproductions.com

[seriousstan]

2. Someone explain why my virus detect went crazy over this film

It locked my browser and I needed a hard reboot.

[Autumn Colors]

3. No clue

I can view any of the film shorts made with The Movies from that site with IE and Firefox just fine. My firewall and anti-virus software is updated daily. No alerts went off.