The movie, raw video footage, final footage, extras, audio files, and script are avilable for free, making it one of the world’s first fully open-source, full length movies.
Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) July 5, 2006 -– Solomon Rothman, a freelance web designer and amateur filmmaker, shot, starred in, and directed a full length movie that was released online for free today. “Boy Who Never Slept” is a sexy dramatic comedy that centers on the life of an insomniac writer who meets a teenage girl online and a friendship that grows into an unlikely love story wrapped in harsh reality. “Boy Who Never Slept” was made with a shoestring budget of $200.
The full movie falls under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License, which allows people to use it in any way that is not commercial, as long as they credit the creators. The raw video footage, final footage, extras, audio files, and script are released under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License, which gives people the right to use any part of the source files for their own private and commercial derivative works.
Forty-five days after releasing the trailer for “Boy Who Never Slept, it was viewed over 200,000 times (only includes traceable sources) online despite a non-existent advertising budget. The movie has been mentioned in the Creative Commons Blog, the German print magazine DeBug, Wikinews, and various other websites internationally.
Concerning his decision to make the movie with no budget, Mr. Rothman says, “With the advent of the digital filmmaking revolution, came the possibility of producing a movie with a null budget. I couldn’t let this opportunity pass so I eagerly began researching film and video production with every spare second of my time. This grew into my first goal: to produce a movie with whatever resources I could obtain and to learn as much as possible in the process.”
Release & Availability
‘Boy Who Never Slept’ and the movie’s source files are available from a number of video distribution websites and via filesharing; for a full list, please visit the official movie website, www.solomonrothman.com/boywhoneverslept.
Mr. Rothman supports traditional cinema and believes in the importance of exploring new possibilities, especially for aspiring filmmakers, “I believe that everyone has the ability to tell at least one good story and I wanted the world to see the power of the Internet Community as a distribution source for amateur filmmakers. I released “Boy Who Never Slept” as an ‘open source’ movie to encourage new filmmakers, and to reach the largest possible audience on a budget absolutely anyone could afford.”
About Solomon Rothman and Boy Who Never Slept
Solomon Rothman lives in the Los Angeles area. He is an independent filmmaker and screenwriter based out of Los Angeles, California. He wrote ‘Boy Who Never Slept’ in a month, with the goal of releasing it online for free. He is currently working on several scripts, some aimed at commercial representation and others intended for free online distribution.
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