INSIDE THE MONITOR
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 24th, 2007
High Def Pro Gamer Doc To Screen at World's Best Professional Gaming Event
Los Angeles...6161 Entertainment will present the North American premiere of INSIDE THE MONITOR at the Cyberathlete Professional League's Summer 2007 gaming competition on August 31st at 10:00 pm. The high definition documentary will screen on the main stage, as part of the CPL event, in the Hilton Anatole Hotel in Dallas, Texas.
INSIDE THE MONITOR follows professional video gamers into the highly competitive, and sometimes murky world of eSports. The high def film combines interviews of the world's best solo and team gamers (Johnathan "Fatal1ty" Wendel) with machinima animation gaming footage to bring the world's most respected eSports tournament to life.
INSIDE THE MONITOR was shot at the Cyberathlete Professional League's 7th annual summer tournament in Dallas, TX. The film is directed, produced, and edited by James Boyd, Director of Photography is Robert Stenger, original music by Jeff Hefti, with additional camera by Kevin Potter and John Behrens.
INSIDE THE MONITOR operates a "Counter-Strike: Source" gaming server that services over 80,000 gamers in North America, and the INSIDE THE MONITOR trailers have been downloaded over 100,000 times across the world. Footage from INSIDE THE MONITOR was recently licensed to the MTV show "From Game To Fame: The CPL World Tour Finals," and the film was used as background research for the "60 Minutes" segment on eSports.
Founded in 1995, 6161 Entertainment is an award-winning digital production company based in Hermosa Beach, CA. 6161's first feature film, THE NEW GODS, was an official selection of the South By Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas. Director James Boyd also founded the Nodance Film Festival, a digital satellite festival, which ran for six years concurrently to the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.
INSIDE THE MONITOR...Welcome To The Machine.
SCREENING:
Friday August 31st, 2007
10:00 pm
Cyberathlete Professional League - Summer 2007
Hilton Anatole Hotel
2201 Stemmons Freeway
Dallas, TX 75207
(214) 748-1200
www.thecpl.com
www.6161.com
INSIDE THE MONITOR Trailer/Youtube (1:22):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QrkKQt1_MU
INSIDE THE MONITOR trailer with selected scenes (3:45):
http://homepage.mac.com/americangamer/6161com/iMovieTheater20.html