Thursday, June 14

Flash Film Festival Nominates Juxt Interactive

By Entertainment Editors & Internet/Surfing Writers
Business Wire

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--Juxt Interactive, a Southern California-based interactive marketing agency, has been nominated for the Flash Forward 2001 Film Festival for its newest movie site release "Pickled" found online at www.pickled.tv

The corresponding Billabong surf flick is due to be released in theatres this summer.

The Flash Film Festival found at www.flashfilmfestival.com is an online competition and awards ceremony showcasing and celebrating the best work on the Web. Of the 12 categories, Juxt is nominated for motion graphics. In addition to the 12 categories a "People's Choice" award as determined by public online voting will be announced at the awards ceremony in New York.

Juxt Interactive has created the nominated Pickled movie site featuring games, interactive contests and a cutting-edge moviemaker, which allows users to pull scenes from the movie and create their own clips, then send their creation to a friend. The movie site is also filled with promotions, quirky fun, future location and times of movie showings and a chance to vote on the best video & DVD cover for the movie's home use release.

Like all surf movies, Pickled features world-class locales, top surfers and killer footage. Riders such as Shane Dorian, Donavon Frankenreiter, Taj Burrow, Mark Occhilupo, Joel Parkinson and Benji Weatherly perform surf sequences in eight countries, intertwined with a crazy plot line.

Juxt, located online at www.juxtinteractive.com has become an industry leader, helping to pave the way for Flash mania. Clients are asking for movie sites, interactive applications, e-commerce and television commercials -- all developed using Flash.

According to Billabong's star of the movie, Robert Earl, "After working on the flick for the last six months, seeing the site come together and then launch is ridiculous. It's almost better than the movie, and then let's talk about the game! I've almost lost sleep over it!"

Juxt Interactive is an award-winning interactive branding and marketing agency offering strategic planning, design and technology services. Juxt services national and international accounts specializing in Flash-enabled design and technologies. Creating experiential environments for customers has resulted in successful projects for clients such as Billabong, Volcom, Macromedia, Nortel, Red Bull, Sketchers, OminiSky, Toshiba and Fujitsu.