Paul Marino

Bio

Paul Marino is an award-winning Machinima director and designer, having worked in this new medium for the past five years. He now leads the Academy of Machinima Arts and Sciences as its Executive Director and board member. His work with The ILL Clan has received much praise and recognition including taking top honors in Showtime Networks' 2001 Alternative Media Festival & the Pixxelpoint International Computer Animation Festival. He was also selected to participate in Web Lab's Crossover workshop--a week-long intensive advised by industry notables such as David Lynch, Alison Anders, and John Cameron Mitchell.

Paul has also been interviewed for a number of articles and video segments about Machinima including ARTE, Entertainment Weekly, NPR, Film and Video Magazine, PBS, Tech TV, the New York Times and CNN. He has also authored several articles for Machinima.com. Prior to his involvement with Machinima, Mr. Marino was a broadcast graphics/animation professional for 14 years where his work garnered him an Emmy award in 1992. He is a founder of www.machinima.org.