Firefox Flicks winners announced: Wheee!

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Firefox Flicks winners announced: Wheee!

by Jordan Running May 1st 2006

Last week Mozilla Corp. finally announced the winners of the Firefox Flicks contest, in which independent filmmakers submitted short ads promoting the open source darling web browser. The grand prize winner, selected by "accomplished entertainment and advertising judges including the talents behind Charlie’s Angels, American Pie, and Six Feet Under," is "Daredevil," by Pete Macomber (on the left in the photo above) which sports the memorable tagline "My other browser is a surfboard." Macomber's ad will be short-listed at the NY Festival of Advertising's 2006 International Advertising Awards later this month. Second place was taken by humorous fan favorite "Wheee!" by Jeff Gill (on the right). Take a look at the press release for the other finalists.

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

madmax said 1:31PM on 5-01-2006

I think the real story here is in the comments section under the winners announcements.

http://www.firefoxflicks.com/backstage/2006/04/27/firefox-flicks-video-contest-winners-announced/

rockin roll said 8:17PM on 5-05-2006

whoa, twins!

ah, homogenuous entertainment producers. guess every upper middle class white boy who doesn't know how to dress has the same dream.

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