"There was a great pool of finalists," Kwok says. "It’s amazing to see people be so creative in such a short period of time. It shows in the work that the filmmakers had a fun time making them as well and I’m sure visitors to the Tribeca Drive-In Short Film Series at Top of the Rock will enjoy them as much as I did."

"I was impressed not just by the quality of the films but also by the different ways the participants chose to represent the games themselves, from film noir to Zelda re-created with humans," Harris said. "A tremendous amount of originality."

As the best of the bunch, Good vs. Wiivil will be screened along with the second- and third-place winners as part of the Tribeca Drive-In™ Short Film Series at Top of the Rock™, at the Observation Deck at Rockefeller Center. Director Paccione also will receive a $10,000 cash prize toward his next film, a Wii system, a Nintendo DS™ Lite and Nintendo games. Paccione also receives a "power lunch" with Tribeca Film Festival co-founder Craig Hatkoff.

Runners-up in the competition included Second Prize winner Marc Duddleson of Monroe, N.C., whose animated Koopa Force short sets the stage for an epic Mario™-based battle in the form of a movie trailer. Christopher Preksta of Pittsburgh took Third Prize for The Nintendo Office, incorporating a host of classic Nintendo characters into what life might be like at Nintendo HQ. Both Duddleson and Preksta will be awarded a Wii and a Wii game. Seven additional finalists will receive a Nintendo DS Lite and a DS game. They are:

• The Blue Light Zone: Eye of the Mii-holder by Will D’Angelo of Las Vegas
• The Legend of Zelda: The Missing Link by Eric Esteb of Seattle
• The Killing of a No Good Goomba by Cole Evans of Austin, Texas
• Pretendo by Joshua Mills of Jamestown, N.C.
• All My Systems by Lee Terwilliger of Lackawanna, N.Y.
• Nintendo News Network by Adam Stackhouse of Williamsburg, Va.
• The Last Wii by Sean Schleifer of Sterling, Va.