New York City. Friday, July 9 -- In the historic New Yorker Hotel last night, the international Flash(tm) Film Festival awarded the coveted Flashforward-orange rubber arrows to winners in 16 categories.
The awards ceremony was one of the highlights of Flashforward2004 New York City (July 7-9), the world's premier Flash conference, produced by lynda.com and United Digital Artist, and sponsored by Macromedia.

The majority of the 60 festival finalists came from countries outside of the United States including: Argentina, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Singapore, Slovak Republic,Sweden, United Kingdom, United States, and Venezuela.

The 16 FLASH(tm) FILM FESTIVAL WINNERS BY CATETORIES:

1. APPLICATION: http://www.logicweb.it/treeplanner/treeplanner.swf
by Logicweb s.r.l. from Susegana, Italy

2. ART: http://www.designforfreedom.com/fp/projects/womd/index.html

by D5ive from Escondido, California

3. CARTOON: http://www.dasplankton.de/Data/Bonbonknacker/Candy.html
by DasPlankton from Berlin, Germany

4. COMMERCE: http://www.eu.dockers.com/
by AKQA from London, UK

5. EXPERIMENTAL: http://www.junglegym-mdv.com
by Meeyoung Kim from New York City

6. GAME:http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/bluepeter/games/microlife/microlife.shtml
by Kerb from Brighton, England

7. EDUCATIONAL: http://www.connect-truth.com
by Arnold Worldwide from Boston, Massachusetts

8. MOTION GRAPHICS: http://www.fishouse.net
by Fishouse from Castelfranco, Italy

9. NAVIGATION: http://www.jacziesmer.com
by ZEPP SITESEEING from Hamburg, Germany

10. ORIGINAL SOUND:http://awards.web.rga.com/2004/lab_holiday_03.html
by R/GA from New York City

11. STORY: http://www.julia1926.net
by HELTERSK3LTER from Stuttgart, Germany

12. TECHNICAL MERIT: http://claus.packts.net
by cdeazur from Munich, Germany

13. 3D: http://tokyoplastic.com/drummachine.html
by tokyoplastic from Oxford, England

14. TYPOGRAPHY: http://www.fuelindustries.com<
by Fuel Industries from Ottawa, Canada

15. VIDEO: http://demo.fb.se/e/v50/
by Forsman & Bodenfors from Gothenburg, Sweden

16. PEOPLE'S CHOICE: http://www.bombtheworld.net
by K-LAB / Mario Laugell from Frankfurt, Germany

Links to all of the winners at this year's New York Festival, as well as winners from the past 5 festivals, can be found at http://www.flashforwardconference.com/showwinners_ny.asp or by visiting www.flashforwardconference.com and clicking on Flash Film
Festival.

Among the 30-person Flash(tm) Film Festival jury who selected the winners in the first 15 categories were: Eric Bort, Living Children Multimedia; Bill Buxton, Buxton Design; Alexander Chen, The Barbarian Group; Ann-Marie Cheung, FG New Media; Chris Choi, PentaBreed; Nicholas Da Silva, I Want My Flash TV!; Jeff Faulkner, deepPlay; Robert Ford, FavouriteWebsiteAwards.com; Ze Frank, zefrank.com; Tony Hogqvist, Perfect Fools; Martin Hughes, wefail; Dave Jones, Transience; Jason Kaufman, Ta-Da Designs; Michael Lebowitz, Big Spaceship; Ty Lettau,
Sound of Design; Nader Nejat, Omega Media; Chris Orwig, Brooks Institute of Photography; Adam Phillips, Brackenwood Entertainment; Ingo Ramin, 247 Media Studios; Evan Roth, ni9e; Euna Seol, PostVisual.com; Adi Sideman, Oddcast; Grant Skinner, gskinner.com; Bill Spencer, Pope de Flash; Megan Stevens, Motion Culture; Craig Swann,CRASH!MEDIA; Mark Sylvester, Mixed Grill; Jared Tarbell, Levitated.net; Burak Unaldi, MassNet Internet Strategies-Istanbul and Matias Zadicoff,MediaRamas.com. The 16th award, the "People's Choice", was determined
by online voting.

The Flashforward conference, which hosts the festival, is supported by:
Gold sponsor: Macromedia
Bronze sponsors: Electric Rain, introNetworks, Macromedia Press, Metaliq, New Riders Publishing, Peachpit Press

Media sponsors: Animation Magazine, MX Developer's Journal