Nominations are open for the Flashforward2006 Austin Film Festival. Whether it’s your work or one you admire, we count on you to tell us about the best Flash on the web. Nominations will close on June 23.

Nominate a Flash Site!

Long-time Festival watchers may notice that we have made some changes to the categories — for the first time in three years!

Some of the changes are simply different names and more detailed descriptions, but there are two important differences:

• We removed the Experimental category. We felt that it overlapped with both the Art and Technical Merit categories, and that any work suitable for Experimental would also fit well in one or both of those.

• We added the Experience category. We heard from many of you that your work strove to excel on all levels, and did not specialize enough to be fairly recognized in any of the niche categories available. The Experience category should accommodate sites like this:

Experience - A work for any purpose which is exemplary in more than one discipline and delivers an overall extraordinary user experience.

If you still feel your work is not represented by any of the fifteen available categories, nominate it for the best one(s) available and let us know what different categories you would like to see in the future. And if you’re interested in joining the team of Festival judges, get in touch!

One more plug for the Seattle finalists and winners… an amazing body of work!

The images above are close-ups of the award arrows, taken by Lynda Weinman and Chris Orwig, respectively. Click their names to be taken to their respective galleries from Flashforward2006 Seattle.

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