Good vs. Wiivil Wins Nintendo’s Short Cuts Film Festival

A New York Filmmaker has won the top prize at Nintendo’s Inaugural Film Festival Short Cuts. Jack Paccione Jr. takes the $10,000 pirze, and his short Good vs. Wiivil will receive Festival Screening along with the second a third place winners at Top of the Rock at the Observation Deck at Rockefeller Center. Paccione also receives a “power lunch” with Tribeca Film Festival co-founder Craig Hatkoff. All 10 finalists will receive Nintendo systems and software.

Good vs. Wiivil features a hapless ice cream shop employee controlled by dueling Wii remotes in a battle between good and evil.

Short Cuts entries from across the nation were judged on their originality, creativity, and uniqueness. All submissions were required to be Nintendo-themed in some way. Clips included everything from mockumentaries and love stories to animated tributes and wild live-action parodies.

Judges included Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime as well as David Kwok, senior program director for the Tribeca Film Festival, and Lew Harris, editorial director of movies .com.

“There was a great pool of finalists,” Kwok says. “It’s amazing to see people be so creative in such a short period of time. It shows in the work that the filmmakers had a fun time making them as well and I’m sure visitors to the Tribeca Drive-In Short Film Series at Top of the Rock will enjoy them as much as I did.”

The top ten entries can viewed at the Nintendo Short Cuts website where visitors can continue to vote for their favorites.