susan johnston - New Media Film Festival

The New Media Film Festival (NMFF) honors stories worth telling. The festival celebrates innovative and imaginative visual work that can make audiences laugh, cry, think, and go beyond the ordinary. In its second year, NMFF will exhibit a selection of both short and long-form works that exhibit a strong personal vision combined with the highest standards of creative excellence and technical achievement. With a satellite event in November in San Francisco, the growth of the festival has also added a group of distinguished judges from the industry and $45,000 combined prizes.

All finalists will be viewed by distributors for possible online, theatrical, or broadcast distribution.

Festival Director, Susan Johnston has worked with the Providence & Rhode Island Film Commissions to build the infrastructure used by the Farrelly brothers, director Michael Corrente, NBC's hit TV series "Providence," and Context Media Studios for their international productions and implementing a 25% tax incentive for investors of RI films. Upon relocating to Los Angeles, Johnston expanded services to include international co-producing, talent producing, TV development, and innovative projects including the first series ever produced for cell phones, and Mini-Bikers. Johnston helped SAG develop their internet contract, produced the first HD TV Pilot shot on Panasonic Varicam-The Hidden Realm and the first music video using DVX100, notes helped for DVX100A.
CEO-Multiple Award Winning Production Company Select Services Films Inc.
• Judge for the daytime Emmy’s, 2011
• Judge New Media Institute, 2010/2011
• Professor Emeritus in New Media
• Judge Machinima-Second Life
• Speaker on Social Media