MILIA
97 SPECIAL:
The Winners
(and the Links)
Even if you don't buy the hype, the
enthusiasm was obvious when festival organizer Xavier Roy -
Chief Executive Reed Midem Organisation said in his closing
remarks,
" Milia `97 has
established itself as a true market for all forms of digital
media. It has become the living proof of the convergence of
new technologies, in direct response to the segmentation and
diversification of media serving different user communities.
Creativity and improved contents have played a key role in
speeding up negotiations and transactions at this year's
Milia. The key words for the fourth edition are definitely
quality and business ".
While we wait for the art stream info to come in, here's how
that 'quality and business' panned out for the commercial
multimedia winners. Presented here with on-line links so you
can follow them up.
The 'path' interface from Peter Gabriel's
Eve
Peter Gabriel's CD-ROM title, Eve, won
the Milia d'Or Grand Prize.
Eve is a co- production by Gabriel's Real World
Multimedia and Starwave
Corp. (who just closed their CD-ROM division)
The Best Online sites:
Gold – The Discovery Channel On
Line (Discovery Communications);
Silver – Ski
IN (Idea Net) - German ( with some English) site; Bronze
– Mapquest
(GeoSystems Gobal).
Games: joint winners
Monty
Python & The Quest For the Holy Grail, produced by 7th Level Corporation,
and
The Pink
Panther's Passport to Peril, from Wanderlust Interactive (not
to be confused with Wanderlust
Interactive.)
Edutainment
–
Operation
Teddy Bear, from Index Plus and Flammarion (France). A
2nd World War Resistance story starring a Teddy Bear.
Recreation
Interactive
Wave. Produced for two years in French by LVI-Presse and
Les Editions Numerique, it is now available as an English
language magazine on CD-ROM. (Available in Australia, $20 at
most good newstands)
Education/Reference
L'Ocean
des Origines from Microfolie's
Editions (France),
Art &
Culture – The National
Museum Of American Art.