Hello, fellow Eyesoners and welcome to the Eyeson Film Festival! Below are our choices for this event's finest film. Your vote will determine the Academy Award for Best Picture! We hope you voted wisely, and may the best picture win!
Our contesting films follow:
fat_moogle
Aeris is in real need of a protector at this stage in her life when circumstances lead her into paying a visit to her younger sister Yuffie in Midgar. She doesn't understand how Yuffie, who is expecting her first child, could have picked a husband so lacking in refinement. Vincent Valentine's buddies come over to the house to play cards and one of them, fat_moogle, finds Aeris attractive until Vincent tells fat_moogle about what kind of a woman Aeris really is. What will happen when Yuffie goes to the hospital to have her baby and just Aeris and fat_moogle are left alone in the house...?
Jdeadevil
Tidus and Wakka meet up in Spira and find an old friend Seymour, who takes them away to remote site and tells them they will be paid when the job is finished. When they are finished, they return to town to find Seymour to get their wages. He gives them a few dollars, and says he'll just go to the bank and pick up the payroll for them. Tidus and Wakka then run into an old prospector, who claims the hills around the mysterious and haunting Jdeadevil mountains are still full of gold, and if they can get the cash, he'll go with them. They eventually get the cash from Seymour, and after a little persuasion, all three set off for the Jdeadevil hills as good friends, but will they return that way? The hills work in mysterious ways, and the treasure of a dead evil can have an effect on a man more than one can say...
LocoColt04
A group of Cid's Knights are trying to decipher the last word ever spoken by LocoColt04, the millionaire newspaper tycoon: "Ciddies." The film begins with a news reel detailing Colt's life for the members, and then from there, they are shown flashbacks from Colt's life. As the Cid's Knights investigate further, the members see a display of a fascinating man's rise to fame, and how he eventually fell off the "top of the world." In an attempt to figure out the meaning of this word, one Cid's Knight tracks down the people who worked and lived with Colt; they tell their stories in a series of flashbacks that reveal much about Colt's life, but not enough to unlock the riddle of his dying breath.
Miss Mae
In this charming film based on the popular L. Raistlin Baum stories, Miss Mae and her little doggie Jiro are caught in a tornado's path and somehow end up in the land of Oz, a magical land where a great and magical admin lives. Here, she meets a Quincrow who needs a brain, a Tin Pike who wants a heart, and a Cowardly shion who desperately needs courage. Together, they travel to The Wondersquare City in search of The Admin of Oz before the Wicked Jinx of the West catches up with them!
MissH
Romantic adventures of neurotic British rock star Bubba Tonberry and his equally neurotic girlfriend Sophie "MissH" Hall. After breaking up with his Sophie, Bubba goes on a stream of consciousness journey through his memories of their relationship, trying to find out what caused them to part ways. He often breaks the fourth wall, speaking to the camera, entering peoples' stories, and even using animation to recall the wonderful days of his relationship with the magnificent and elusive Sophie and her impact on his life. The film traces the course of their relationship from their first meeting, and serves as an interesting historical document about love in the 2010's.
Rez09
An inordinately complex man who has been labeled everything from hero to charlatan, Rez09 blazed his way to glory in the Arabian desert, then sought anonymity as a common soldier under an assumed name. The story opens with the death of Rez09 in a motorcycle accident in Esthar at the age of 46, then flashbacks to recount his adventures: as a young intelligence officer in Galbadia in 1916, he is given leave to investigate the progress of the Estharian revolt against the Sorceress in the first Sorceress War. In the desert, Rez09 organizes a guerrilla army and--for two years--leads the Estharians in harassing the Sorceress with desert raids, train-wrecking and airship attacks. Eventually, he leads his army northward and helps a Shumi General destroy the power of the Cetran Empire.
Rin Heartilly
Aspiring actress Rin Heartilly maneuvers her way into the lives of stage legend Lenne, who is aging but not gracefully, and has everything: a successful career, close friends, a man who loves her. Rin manages to worm her way into Lenne's life in order to "study her like a blueprint". Rin's sweet facade is soon seen through by a number of people, most quickly by theater critic Cid Highwind, who decides to become her mentor. Rin achieves her goal of stage stardom, leaving a trail of unhappiness, but ultimately contentment, behind her.
ToriJ
ToriJ's List is the based-on-truth story of Czech businessman Oskar ToriJ, who uses female gamer labor to start a game factory in occupied Poland. As GameGate War II progresses, and the fate of the female gamers becomes more and more clear, ToriJ's motivations switch from profit to human sympathy and he is able to save over one thousand female gamers from death in the delete chambers, becoming the hero in his own story.