Filmmakers

	YuGiOh: The Abridged Series Martin "LittleKuriboh" Billany, the creator, voice, and writer of Yu-Gi-Oh: The Abridged series will be joining us at MAGFest. Now on its 3rd year, with over 40 episodes, YGOTAS continues to deliver Konami's card game of death in a super condensed parody of the series itself, and anime+game cliches in general. With him, as always, will be YGOTAS webmaster and MAGfest regular, Anthony "Kroze" Kresky. LK and Kroze will be at MAGFest the whole weekend of January 1-4, 2010 to let loose the secrets of YGOTAS and hang out with all the attendees.
	There Will Be Brawl Matt Mercer and Zach Grafton, creators of the hit web series There Will Be Brawl, will be traveling all the way from California to join us at MAGFest this year. The creators describe TWBB as, "a non-profit web series designed as a dark, dramatic parody of the popular Super Smash Bros. Brawl video game for the Nintendo Wii. [We] are avid fans of Nintendo, and this series has been developed as an homage to the colorful characters of SSBB that we all know and love."
	Angry Video Game Nerd The Angry Video Game Nerd is a character created by indy filmmaker James Rolfe from CineMassacre.com, with videos featured on ScrewAttack.com and GameTrailers.com. He also does movie reviews at Spike.com. Currently, Volume 3 of the Angry Video Game Nerd DVD collection is on sale at the ScrewAttack booth!
	Happy Video Game Nerd He's had enough of games that they hate, he's the Happy Video Game Nerd! Winner of GameTrailers' Out Nerd the Nerd contest, Derek Alexander's AVGN-approved internet show spotlights the great overlooked classics of the past, like Earthbound, Splatterhouse, and Rocket Knight Adventures. If he looks a little tired at his Q&A, that's because he flew here all the way from Alaska. Please don't ask him about Sarah Palin.
	ScrewAttack Created from a strand of Zeus's hair that fell from the heavens, ScrewAttack.com is the place that all gamers can call home... even if they are ugly. The ability to upload full HD videos, images, music and games all while writing blogs and creating shows with friends is something that all gamers need and now all gamers have. The great colosseum for gamers is here and you are it's gladiators... except you don't need to kill each other with sharp objects. ..... Ok you get the point. Check out ScrewAttack.com. It's the gamer's hub for everything gamer.
	X-Strike Studios Tired of sub-par Hollywood video game movie adaptations? Who isn't really? For far too long Hollywood has churned out embarrassments of everyone’s favorite video games. Enter X-Strike Studios, an independent movie company out of Western New York, destined to make quality, live action, video game parody films. They are committed to making these video game movies to excite and inspire the fan and the general viewer alike. As one of the first to take on this incredible mission, they find their duty is to stay true to the source material while expressing their own twist of humor. Between full length parodies and short videos, X-Strike Studios has taken on such titles as River City Ransom, PaRappa the Rappa, Rampart, Final Fantasy, Eternal Darkness, Silent Hill, Metal Gear Solid, and their latest venture, Resident Evil. Come check out their table, panels, and join in the discussions on their online forum, all for an inside scoop on what makes X-Strike unique.
	Eddie Lebron Film maker Eddie Lebron has been making independent films for the last 10 years; venturing from original award nominated works to fan film projects to share with other fans alike. Eddie is currently finishing and readying his newest feature length project; "Megaman", a fan produced film adaptation of the popular 1987 Capcom classic of the same name.
	Main Moon Productions With each year passing, Main Moon keeps growing to new heights, rolling out new exciting projects for the good people at MAGFest! First up, MMP will be screening it's latest film "True Faith", a follow-up to their 2006 film Bizarre Love Triangle. It's an indie comedy dealing with coming of age, relationships, and of course, 2D fighters. Also premiering at MAGFest is a special limited edition preview of MMP's upcoming graphic novel, Monster Management Security Bureau of Cincinnati! To top it all off, a full array of goods will be available to take home including DVDs, t-shirts, posters and albums - including the official merchandise for Shael Riley and the Double Ice Backfire.
	PBC Productions From pixels to puppetry, the boys and girl from PBC Productions have been bringing their unique vision to low-budget film since 'aught-6. Projects such as The New Adventures of Captain S and Little Miss Gamer have made them internet celebs, while they're known to the puppetry world for their feature length film Puppet Rampage. They're happy to be 4-time returning guests at MAGFest VIII.
	Little Miss Gamer In an internet that is over-saturated with angry video game review shows, Little Miss Gamer (Lindsey "Z" Briggs) is a breath of sweet air. She tackles issues that gamers face on her show with an upbeat, quirky style that has made her an internet sensation. Her videos can be found on both pbc-productions.com as well as thatguywiththeglasses.com, and she's heard on the bi-weekly podcast The Lee and Z Show.
	Judd Saul Judd has been involved in many different aspects of the entertainment industry. Over the years he produced several different types of projects, such as documentaries, music videos, commercials and a music album. After nearly 200 hours of footage, the feature documentary “FRAG” was completed. In April 2008, FRAG had its world premiere at AFI Dallas. FRAG has also screened at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival, Berlin Film Festival, and Cambridge Film Festival. The movie is currently in the process of securing worldwide distribution. Judd continues to operate Cohesion Productions and is currently working on several different projects.
	Lawrence "MasakoX" Simpson Lawrence Simpson (MasakoX) is a British-based voice actor, editor and member of TeamFourStar. He will be representing the group at this year's MAGFest. Over the last four years, Lawrence has lent his voice to over 100 amateur productions ranging from original flash animations to PC games. He is also the co-creator of "Naruto: The Abridged Series" working alongside fellow abridger, vegeta3986. With this experience of voice-overs, he put together the show "MasaVox" (which can be viewed on the website www.thatguywiththeglasses.com) in which he teaches the art of online voice acting. He is currently working as a freelance editor in the UK.
	Chris "Kirbopher" Niosi Chris "Kirbopher" Niosi is an Animation Artist and a student at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. He has worked in Flash Animation for 6 Years and has created several well-known Flash cartoons on Newgrounds.com such as "Go! Go! Parody Rangers" and "There Was This One Time". He is also the director and a head writer of collaborative animation projects such as "NiN10Doh!" and "$00pah NiN10Doh!" overseeing many talented artists on one of the biggest video game spoofs around. He's happy to attend MAGFest as his first convention as a guest and will have many special announcements to make to the Music and Gaming masses.
	That Guy With The Glasses Thatguywiththeglasses.com is a site focussing on a wide variety of entertainment, from raping your nostalgic memories to Taking down the hardest video game you could never beat, There's something for everybody at TGWTG. Talents Sean Fausz, Rollo T, PawDugan, and Coldguy Are all Hosts of Transmission Awesome, the Official Podcast of TGWTG.com. Add in LordKat of Until We Win, and Y Ruler of time, and you've got quite the gathering of internet personalities, all with having a blast at MAGFest on the Mind.