Un emocionante artículo desde UK
La revista británica Hungry Eye ha publicado el que es, probablemente, el mejor artículo que un medio nos ha dedicado hasta la fecha. Se trata de un texto muy alentador que ha hecho que se nos pongan los pelos de punta al leerlo. Nos ha hecho sentirnos un poco moteros tranquilos, toros salvajes.
El artículo completo se puede leer en la revista, a la venta aquí. No obstante, en su web hay disponible un extracto, que os dejamos a continuación.
Spanish filmmakers Riot Cinema Collective are transforming the way audiences experience films with The Cosmonaut. Director Nicolás Alcalá tells Eleanor O'Kane why he believes independent filmmakers need to change the way they make movies.
In a digital age, where doors are slowly opening for independent filmmakers, Riot Cinema Collective has stormed in and kicked them off their hinges. This year will see the Spanish collective's first feature film, The Cosmonaut, released on the same day in cinemas, on television and free to view on the internet. The project, which has broken records in crowdfunding, is set to change how audiences interact with filmmakers. Nicolás Alcalá, the sci-fi film's director, and his collaborators Bruno Teixidor and Carola Rodríguez, are founders of the collective. It was while studying a visual communication degree at university four years ago that a bored Alcalá decided to drop out to form a production company with his friends. As well as picking up commissions for advertisements and documentaries, the collective decided to embark on an ambitious project that would harness not only the power of social media, but change the way filmmakers interact with their audiences.
For Alcalá it made complete sense to plan to make a film that would be made available for free download at the same time as it hit cinema screens. "We've always been connected to the internet and followed projects online," he says from his Madrid office. "We discovered crowdfunding three years ago and thought it was a great way, not only to fund a film, but to create a community. We decided that connecting with people was the way to make movies."
Although the final edit is still in the raw stages, The Cosmonaut has already amassed thousands of fans who have paid to get the project off the ground. It's a community that began to grow the day Riot Cinema Collective launched its own crowdfunding site. "When we started there were no such sites in Spain. There were two in the US - Kickstarter and IndieGoGo - but at the time neither was available for international projects, so we decided to launch our own site. A week before we went live, IndieGoGo contacted us, but it was too late," Alcalá explains. In fact, being independent of the mainstream crowdfunding sites was a bonus: the traditional sites allow only a short window of opportunity in which to raise money, whereas the collective's online store has been open for two years now.
Aprovechamos para darle las gracias muy efusivamente a la autora, Eleanor O'Kane, que se ha portado genial con nosotros.
