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The International Society of Cinematic Arts is proud to announce the opening of initial nominations today for the prestigious International Best Picture Award.

Any nation that wishes may submit up to two films for inital nomination, and may endorse one film from another nation for advancement to the finals.

Once the endorsements have been tallied, the ten films with the most endorsements will recieve Finalist Nominations. An open poll will be made available to the international community, which will select which film out of the ten Final Nominees will recieve this year's International Best Picture award from the International Society of Cinematic Arts.

The Society requests that any film submitted for nomination include a summary, as well as cast information and film clips if the submitting nation would like to present them.








OOC: Essentially, I think it'd be fun to have an II version of the Oscars. Submit up to two movies, and then endorse a movie from another nation to go on to the finals. You are not allowed to endorse your own movies, for obvious reasons. The ten movies with the most endorsements will be put onto a poll, which will decide who wins the International Best Picture Award. Submit anything you'd like, include summaries, write up little segments from the film if you like. List anyone you want for your film's director, actors, writers, etc. if you want to do that. Comments welcome.

The first film submitted for nomination by the Democratic Colonies is The Shattered Perception, by Andromeda Pictures.

Written and directed by Sofia Coppola (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001068/), starring Saffron Burrows (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004787/) and Harrison Ford (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000148/), The Shattered Perception is a dark, emotional drama that follows the widow Selma (played by Burrows) as she struggles to come to terms with the loss of her husband, a local police officer. Selma eventually catches the eye of a local Fabusist recruiter, Hank O'Leary (played by Ford). Selma, struggling desperately to regain some meaning in her life, follows Hank deeper and deeper into the underground Fabusist society in the slums of the Colonial city of Passchendale as news of rising tensions with the Mississipian Federation cause near panic in the Democratic Colonies. Selma, already emotionally shaken, slowly sheds the last remaining elements of her former beliefs as a romance grows between Selma and Hank and Selma becomes a fully fledged member of the Fabusist underground. Believing that war with the Mississpian Federation is imminent, Selma uses her status as an officer's widow to assist the Fabusists in capturing a police armoury, whose weapons they believe will allow them in assisting in the coming Fabusist invasion from Mississipi. However, the invasion never arrives, as the underground Fabusists discover - and they are now wanted by the government for thier crimes. Selma and Hank attempt a desperate escape to Mississipi, but are gunned down by Federal agents in the Passchendale International Airport, in what some critics are calling 'the best directed and shot scene of the year'.

Although the film was said by some international critics to be nothing more than anti-Fabusist propoganda that has become meaningless since the film was intially screened only six months before the collapse of the Fabust empire, many critics believe The Shattered Perception to be director Sofia Coppola's finest work to date, offering a dark and memorable look into the effect that the loss of a loved one can have, and humanising Fabusists in a way that is uncommon in Colonial cinema.





OOC: Maybe this thread wasen't such a good idea. Comments? Was this a horrible idea? Would anyone actually go see The Shattered Perception if it was an actual film?

Flame in the Jungle

This Gerhart Koch masterpiece is based on the true story of two motor torpedoboats, during the ’32 war that engaged each other closely off Isle 1546. Both were crippled in the battle, and were forced to beach to avoid attacks from sea creatures. Once on the island, they cautiously make contact, and work together to fight the jungle and repair one of their boats. However, once one of the boats is functional, old rivalries resurface. A Ducial petty officer leads a mutiny against the Saxburgers and their own officer, who was viewed as collaborating with the Saxburgers. There is a side story too, of a brief love affair between the Saxburger radio officer Fritz Schwartz and Ducial doctor Bernard Laffite.

The film opens with a Jacksonian fishing vessel sighting the shattered torpedo boat, and pulling alongside. Only one man is still alive, Bernard Laffite (Christian GABRIEL), who has in his hand a logbook. Scribbled in the last pages is an account of the past weeks. He dies, incoherent, under the blade of the Jacksonian surgeon. The captain of the fishing vessel, in his cabin, begins to read the journal.

“I am dying. I do not care for myself at this point, for Fritz is dead, and I don’t really want to continue living without him and, if my diagnosis is correct, my liver as well. I am suffering from surprisingly little internal bleeding, for Im still coherent at this point. The splinter must have missed all the major arteries and veins, which I would declare a miracle if it didn’t leave me in such pain. Enough grousing, I will either live to finish this account of the past few weeks, or I will die before I reach the end and leave the discoverers of this damned boat a little mystery…”

The view switches to the bridge of the Ducial torpedo boat. It is night, and the water is calm. A contact is reported, and the vessel makes to engage it with cannon. They, and the enemy vessel duel, scoring occasional near misses and hits. The Ducial vessel suffers a hit to the engine room. Cut to the enemy vessel, a Saxburger torpedo boat. While still operational, their fuel tanks have been holed, and they try to limp out of range. Both end up beaching on a small island, and, if you are familiar with the flora of the Verdant Archipelago, you will understand that both crews suffer massive casualties establishing a base camp. Eventually, a Saxburger hunting party makes contact with the Ducials. First contact is tense but soon they both come to the conclusion that co-operation is nessisary. Over the next few weeks, they establish a permanent base, and even manage to haul the torpedo boats closer together. It is during this time that the romance between Laffite and Schwartz (Efim GELLER), the Saxburger radio officer who was wounded in the battle, develops. Both crews are aware of this, and treat it with amused contempt, but generally stay out of the way. It is also during this time, as the repairs begin to reach completion, that the first tensions between Lieutenant Dubois (Paul FOUGIERE) and Petty Officer Lablanc (Pierre JACQUES). Lablanc wishes to slaughter the Saxburgers while they sleep, while Dubois thinks they should treat honorably with the Saxburgers, since they need to co-operate to succeed. Lablanc, however, manages to get a portion of the crew on his side, and figures that push comes to shove, the rest will support the killing of the Saxburgers, who treat prisoners notoriously poorly. Once the repairs are completed, they set sail, and Lablanc organizes his mutiny. In contravention of normal movie conventions, the last image is the beginning of the mutiny, with Lablanc firing a pistol into Dubois’s face. Then the credits start rolling, with gunfire and screams in the background, almost concealed by martial music. The gunfire slackens off, but the screaming remains till the end of the credits.

While accused of being unessisarily militant in it's anti-war message, the cinimatography and clever dialogiue makes the movie worth seeing, even if you can not stand the message. The acting too, is extremely good, and the director's choice to have all the dialogue in Russian, the languange of the one city-state not represented in the film, neatly circomvents subtitling problems.

Surely, there are more nations on NS in which the citizens enjoy movies?

((of course, but my mind cannot make up movies at the moment...))

[OOC: I would, I'm just worn out.]

OOC: Is this open to future technology nations, such as myself?

OOC: Sure, why not. Go ahead -Bretonia-.