Premiere in Madrid

23/05/2013

It wasn’t as we had dreamt. IT WAS BETTER.

Over a 1000 people. Thousands of smiles. Applause. Tears. The perfect ending for a journey of four years… that has just begun. We wanted to tell you a bit of what we lived that day with a few images :’)

The Cosmonaut on the giant screens of Callao City Lights :’)

Part of the crew on the photocall. Carola was missing because she was doing producer stuff ;)

The only photo where Carola is not on the phone

Carola, Bruno y Nico introducing the movie to a thousand people…

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The Kolibri on Callao :’)

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After the movie…

All the crew prepared for the Q&A

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Luís Enrique, the cinematographer, answering questions

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Steve Galache (Sasha) translating for Katrine and Max

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Telepizza arrives!! They gave us 150 pizzas so everyone could have dinner.
That’s the right way to “support culture” ;)

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And afterwards… Party at the Larios Café with Cosmonaut Mojitos by Forcevital. They were incredible!

On the premiere, with so much to say, we didn’t have the time but we want to thank everyone that helped us make all of this. Thank you, the producers and investors, the team that has sweated blood to bring you this movie; thank you PepephoneEntropy StudioForma Pro and Pecera, without whom we wouldn’t have been able to finish the movie, thanks to Callao City Lights for taking us in, to Playthenet for lending us their screens, Cocktails Forcevital for taking care of the +500 mojitos we asked for, and to Larios Café for letting us dance until the morning in one of the best parties we remember.

And two days later… Well, thanks to the tickets Air Europa gave us, half the crew flew to Barcelona for the Worldwide release. We’ll tell you all about it soon ;)

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Creative commons

18/05/2013

Lately I like to use the word ecosystem to refer what we are trying to do with The Cosmonaut. Wikipedia defines ecosystem as “A community of living organisms in conjunction with their environment, interacting as a system”. I love the concept of being interdependent, that means they depend on one another.

That is our perspective of culture. Like a system where creators relate with their fans, with love. Where creators and fans coexist in equilibrium.

We can discuss and talk pages about problems that relate with distribution, piracy, grants for creators and a million things that are trend topics right now.

But no, we are only talking about love, trust, and the relation about creators and fans.

We believe that our public/users/fans should have the right to:

  • Have the power to decide when, how and where to see the film.
  • Have at least one option to watch it for free ( to let them decide for themselves if its worth to pay for it or not).
  • Share it with their friends, copying it as many times as they want.
  • Show it publicly with the people they know or with other people.
  • Modify it as they please, to create new versions, new narratives, projects with parts of its elements.

In this ecosystem we believe everything is made from love, there is no need for money to be involved, it has no reason to be part of it. But as we talked about in the begining, in this ecosystem the interindependence from the viewers and creators  makes it natural, for it to last. We have been designing the way we could make this happen, and make some benefint possible, so we can keep doing what we love most. Make films.

When this was a short film, without any comercial ambition and  low budget we thought about licence it with a simple CC by Sa, so anyone could modify it in the future. Further more we even wanted to create our own licence  so we could fit our project in a legal way.  After lots of debates and talking with creative commons believers around the world, we end up with the conclution that the licence that fited the project was CC By Sa Nc.

By means you have to quote  the authors of the original piece.

Sa means you all the further art you do with the original piece must have the same licence as the original, so the spirit keeps on flowing.

Nc means  you cant use it in a comercial way. If you want to make it comercial, you have to talk with us first.

And why does this has any sense?

We have invested 4 years of work. Bruno Carola and I have  around 10,000 hours of work ( and we never charged one single euro) and around 300 people have worked with us, hundreds or thousands of hours (without being payed). With this license it happens two things:

  1. The viewers and users can se the film fro free ( and decide when how and where). They can share it, they can copy it. They can show it and modify it, that is just what we intended.
  2. If somebody wants to make money with the film ( it could be a payed screening,  selling beberages, or actually by selling it by dvd, or charging for creating an experience with an added value) he can, but we must first arrange an agreement so we can keep on doing films like this one.

In an ecosystem the inter-relationships are based in balance. This means if a student asks us permition to use our images in his shortfilm there is a 99% chance we will let him do it. Even if the shortfilm wins prices, and there is an economic price. Or if an asociation wants to screen the film on their cineclub and it happens to be there is a beberages machine there, we wont  care about that. But if we want this balance to truly work in benefit for everyone, if there exist a comercial intention, we believe it should follow the ecosystem philosophy. So we can pay our technicians, so we can give back the money for our investors and if there is something left, do the next film with the same freedom we had while shooting this one.

As you can see our Guide of Licences, the fim has a Creative Commons – NoComercial – NonDerivativeWork 3.0 (By Nc Nd) PLUS.

The only reason is a non derivative licence is because the film has music/soundtrack and shots that have copyright. Which we only posses for distribution while not for modifying them, we must respect copyright that is not ours. The rest of the material has BySaNc that allows creative freedom to flow, remixing.

So you can modify and create new works with all the material, except the ones that we detail in the guide of licenses.

Batman y Robin  images property of  20th Century Fox.

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How to and first aid

18/05/2013

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Today, as you all now, it’s C-Day. After four years of work it’s time to watch the movie. How?

If you’re in Barcelona, the best option is, of course, to come to the CCCB and watch it and talk about it  with us ;)

If you’re not, we’ll show several transmedia pieces (that you can already watch on our website) and at 20’30 GMT+2 we’ll start the presentation of the movie (which you can follow via streaming here). About 9, we’ll press the button and the movie will be available online.

Where can you watch it?

The ideal option is to watch it on our official website. It’s been designed with the idea of creating a whole experience: from the eastern eggs, to the behind the scenes pieces and, of course, the transmedia webisodes. They’re ordered in a timeline so you know what’s the best way to watch them. The movie will be in our website completely free. The only thing we ask of you is to do a share to view, that is, that you tweet or post something in facebook telling your friends that you’re watching The Cosmonaut. And as we believe in good relationships between fans and creators, and we can only make movies with your help, once you’ve seen it, if you want to, you pay. Whatever you want, just if you want. And if you’re logged in with your K-Pass, you won’t see any message :)

About the technical aspects, even though we’ve prepared everything for take off, the movie is hosted on Vimeo Pro, and our website can take up to two million people at the same time… In the USSR anything can go wrong and rockets sometimes explode without a reason. Just in case, here you have other options:

Video on demand

On the VOD platforms you’ll find the movie in English with subtitles and also dubbed to Spanish, besides The Moon Files, the most important webisode to know the whole truth of the story. In this platforms you’ll be able to pay directly for the movie or suscribe to them. The options right now are:

TV

Canal+Xtra will show the movie at the same time we’ll be watching it on Barcelona, when we press the button so anyone can watch it on the Internet. It’s the first time that a release like this will happen :’)

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We’ll also share the movie via torrent. It’s a mp4 file of 4’39 gb with the movie at 720p, with several audio and subtitles tracks. Besides, the subtitles will also be available in srt in case anyone has problems playing the integrated ones ;) It’s been set up with several symmetric 100mb connexions around the world so there’s no problem downloading it. Our worldwide torrent premiere will be done by FrostClick.

And then what?

Once the movie is over we’ll take a short break and at 23.00 GMT+2 we’ll have a Q+A, also showed via streaming, so everyone that’s seen the movie can join us. Remember that our official hashtag (the one we’d love to see as a TT…) it’s #cosmonauta and that will be the easier way to get your questions seen.

And, to be updated about everything, the best way is to follow our twitter account :)

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USB and DVD

14/05/2013

Yes, we already know that we told you the USB edition was not gonna happen. We told you that we couldn’t find a way to fund it. And yes, we already know that some of you have heard our complaints because we were not being able to make the DVD Edition the way we wanted.

We are also aware today is not Christmas.

Now forget all of the above. It turns out that this wonderful project has something even more wonderful than the project itself: our fans. You guys: great human beings and always to the rescue every time a problem arises. That’s why, thanks to two fans of our movie (Francisco and Fernando, we love you soooooo much!), everyone else is getting their Christmas presents early this year and you’ll you able to rave all you want about the a-m-a-z-i-n-g USB and DVD editions we are getting ready for you.

Two months ago, when we announced that we were giving up, that it was impossible to create our dream edition since we couldn’t find a partner to fund it, something happened. In less than an hour we got four emails just like this one:

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It reminded us of the time when 3 sponsors showed up in less than 10 minutes to fund the re edition of Poetic for Cosmonauts. Just that, in this case, every edition costed more than 10.000 euros and this, of course, wasn’t child’s play. But even then, suddenly we had the chance to make the Kolibri shaped USB that we had dreamed for so long and to make the DVD edition that we talked about with Cameo for a while and that, for different reasons, was not happening either.

But we took a leap of faith. And we jumped. As usual. If we have self financed, self produced,  self distributed and self exhibit The Cosmonaut… Why wouldn’t we self edit our movie?

THE USB

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And you thought spaceship drawings were just for kids

The USB will be copy the UR-701 tripulated module, based on the original sketches created for the movie. The packaging is created for the hardcore collectors: it’s more like a base for the module so it will look great on your shelves.

· Inside you will find: the movie in English and Spanish, with subtitles in both languages, in very very high quality (we’re finishing the last compression tests). All of the fiction pieces (more than 30 episodes) and “behind the scenes” stuff.  A digital version of the book (the paper edition ships with the DVD). 16 gigabytes loaded with love and cosmonauts. Of course, the K-Pass is included as gift so you can see everything online too.

 

The DVD (book)

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This is what it will look like, on the outside :)

We’ve heard people say “DVD is dead”. And we took it literally. So we decided to edit a …book. A book that is part of the universe of the movie…with handwrittern notes by Yulia, Stas and Andrei, photos and the cosmonaut diary when he falls onto earth. But of course, since we like things weird, it will also include the dvd of the movie. Two for the price of one, and the best of two worlds: hard cover, bas-relief, a 100 period photographs never before published, hours of ink illustration, revealing texts (many unpublished until today and literally, rescued from archives)…and the movie in DVD edition: english and dubbed into Spanish, with a selection fo the best internet extras (episodes and behind the scenes) and some that you won’t find anywhere else. It will be the treasure of your collection (as long as it won’t compete with the USB, because then, the rivalry could last forever)

That’s what everyone that pre-bought the dvd will get.

Of course, everything that didn’t fit into the DVD and everything that it’s in the USB, you can also see it online.  Buying any of the two editions, we’ll give you the K-Pass: so you can have everything in HD and that you’ll get all the news first.

And well, in between so much joy, there’s gotta be bad news too: all these last minute deals have stretched our schedules and the DVD and USB won’t be arriving until the end of May, not on the 18th, as we would have liked. We’re really sorry and we apologize, but we guarantee you that it will be worth the wait. Take the time these days to decide where you will start following the story : is it gonna be the movie? the book? Nayik? In the meantime, you can start pre buying any of the two editions in our store.

 

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The Cosmonaut travels around the world thanks to the Partnership Programme

10/05/2013

In the past few days we shared our incredible news about The Cosmonaut being Day & Date also in television, thanks to Canal +. But The Cosmonaut distribution is also possible thanks to the audience. They are the ones that decide how, when, and where to watch The Cosmonaut, so there are already many people getting together to screen the film in Movie Theaters, Film Societies, bars…and they are organizing themselves under the premises of our Partnership Programme!  Even though the number of screenings is still going up (you can check them all out in our website’s map), there  are a bunch of already organized events we can share with you.

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- Cuenca, Ecuador, May 14th. Camila Moscoso is organising the first Latin American screening and it will be a the Ciclo Cine Café, a bar where the movie will be screened, along with some transmedia pieces and where the official merchandising will be sold. There are already 246 persons joining their Facebook event!

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- Bologna, May 14th. In Bologna, people want to screen the movie too. They are right now working on the italian subtitles, so we’ll be with them at Sala Kinodromo starting at 9 pm. At the same time of our Madrid Screening! More info, here.

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- Los Angeles, May 15th. Thanks to Matt Compton, The Cosmonaut will be screened at The Downtown Independent, at 8 pm. More info on the event, here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/173609746130591/

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- Menorca, May 15th/16th The Ciutadella theater is a very cozy place that screens indie movies, auteur films and some other great stuff that are off the usual distribution circuit, for the people of the Menorca Island to enjoy.

And they want us two days in a row! If you are around, please don’t hesitate to buy your € 5,5 ticket, here.

http://www.ticketea.com/entradas-cosmonauta-menorca

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-Sevilla, May 16th. We’ve already been talking about it in social media, but in Sevilla, the Diferent Group is working hard to create an event at La Carpa, an art space at Avenida de las Asociaciones de Vecinos, s/n. They have many surprises in stock for the audience, so be there! You can buy your tickets here:

http://www.ticketea.com/estreno-cosmonauta-sevilla

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- Valencia, May 16th. La Rambleta is a Cultural Center that will be hosting The Cosmonaut movie and part of our transmedia content, in Valencia. Christian and Esteban, two of the organizers are also really working hard to create a wonderful experience. You can find all the information here and buy the tickets here.

- Almería, May 17th Thanks to David, from “La Ofician Producciones”,The Cosmonaut will be making it to these warm lands on the 18th. The screening is free, but they will share with us the revenues from the sales of food and drinks during the event. More information, here :)

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- Pamplona, May 18th.  Santiago is the creator of Cronoboreal Comunication and the Organizer of this amazing event at the Planetarium! It has to rock so much to watch a movie about Cosmonauts there :) You have all the information on this link and you can buy your tickets NOW in our Ticketea event

http://www.ticketea.com/entradas-cosmonauta-pamplona

- Toronto, Canadá, May 19th. Velian Pandeliev is a kid from Toronto that wrote us an email wanting to take Cosmonaut for a ride to Canada. And we’ll be there on the 19th! The event will take place a the Izakaya Sushi House, where people will dine while watching the film and afterwards they will  also enjoy a DJ session there. It’s all explained in this Facebook Event and in this website:

http://tocosmonaut.wordpress.com/

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- Kiev, Ucrania, during three weeks!  A couple of months ago, Olha Sushko, the event producer of Zhotven Cinemas in Kiev, wrote us an email. They want to screen the movie, three times a day from May 23rd to 29th, then twice a day from May 30th to June 12th and then once a day from June 13th to June 19th. We thought it was an incredible idea! We are now working on getting the permit to screen a spanish film there, while they are working on the subtitles.  But it’s already so cool! You can find out more, here.

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- Palma de Mallorca, May 24th. In Palma, The Cosmonaut will be screened in a very special place: the old RENOIR of Palma, now called CineCiutat. When the film lovers from Palma found out the Movie Theater was about to close down, they joined forces and created a Non profit Organization to save this wonderful place.  So, Juanjo, the organizer believed this was the perfect place for The Cosmonaut. Besides, Nicolás will be there after the screening to answer questions from the audience.

- Montreal, 25 de mayo. This beautiful poster invites you to this free screening, which will be presented by Stephane Blais, Creative Director of Transmedia at SAGA, and will end with a google hangout with Nicolás. You have all the information in their Facebook event.

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- Toulousse, May 26th. Rodolphe contacted us and they are taking The Cosmonaut not only to the Toulousse Screening but to many other places too! They are including us in their Indie USB distribution network. We’ll let you know more later on, but in the meantime, they are expecting Cosmonaut fans, here.

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Valladolid, May 29th. Screening of “The Cosmonaut” in Valladolid. It will be at the great Roxy Cinema. It’s going to be big! With a lot of surprises! They will screen the film and also some of the transmedia, and it will be an afterparty with russian electronic music :) You can know more about this and buy the tickets in this link.

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- Fuengirola,May 30th. Fuengirola has been celebrating the Muestra de Cine de Fuengirola for the past four years. This year, they wanted to screen films that proved there’s a different approach to getting things done, such as “Carmina o revienta” de Paco León …and they also want The Cosmonaut! So we’ll be on the 30th with them, starting at 8.30 pm. Carola Rodríguez, the producer of the film, will be there to answer questions from the audience and tell you all about the project. You can buy your tickets here!

- Avilés, June 4th. Avilés’ Town Hall alongside Francisco Javier, will try to fill up a room given by the Town Hall that has 666 seats! They are not selling their tickets yet, but we’ll tell you all about it soon :)

- London, (date not confirmed). This screening is organized by one of our actors, Max Wrottersley, and his brother Alex. Jaime, one of our production team members who is now working in London, will also be helping out. They are organizing many surprises! We’ll keep you updated!

- Moscow, June 13th.  Julia Blatún, member of the Cosmonaut Team since this was nothing but a short film, is organizing quite a premiere in Moscow on June 13th. It will be sponsored by the MN newspaper and the 35 mm Movie Theater. We can’t share many details just yet, but we know this won’t be the only screening in russian ground. Expect something big!

Last but not least, there are over 29 other screenings being set up around the globe, no profit intended and completely free of charge :) Some of the locations are: San Sebastián, Gran Canaria, Vigo, A Coruña, Perú, Venezuela, Mexico, Villa Marín (Argentina) and many more! We’ll be telling you all through our social media spots :)

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Cosmonaut Week

10/05/2013

As it couldn’t be in any other way, we like things that are complicated. Why organizing a premiere when you can organize two, in Madrid and in Barcelona, plus doing a Think Tank with conferences and debates in both cities and a Remix Hackathon?

Welcome to the Cosmonaut week, from the 13th to the 18th of May!

Programming:

Everything started last week when, through Nayik and the K - Pass, we released the first fiction piece of The Cosmonaut. During the following couple of weeks we will be unveiling other pieces from the transmedia universe

 

Monday 13th: Think Tank Madrid

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The Cosmonaut and the future models for cinematographic creation: questions. Answers. And more answers.

The idea of this event is to use the release of The Cosmonaut, after four long years of creative process, to debate openly about some things the project has brought us, such as new business models and innovative ideas for the media industry in general, and for the film industry in particular.

Now that the journey is reaching its destination, but not its end, it’s a moment to share thoughts about the state of cultural content industries, what has The Cosmonaut done for them, good or bad, and where can we see ourselves in four years time. We look forward to an intense, honest debate, sharing different different perspectives, in order to keep inventing the future.

Session 1: AUDITORIUM of the Instituto de Empresa (IE)

11:00 Opening. Free and Public presentation. Seating will be available on a first-come, first-served basis.

11:30 Event Presentation.

12:00 Round Table plus live Q&A with the audience.

We want a plural debate. So that’s why we will have a distributor with us, someone from TV, a traditional producer and some experts on new models. We will soon confirm all their names.

Session 2: CENTRO INNOVACIÓN BBVA

During the afternoon, a Think Tank will be organized, behind closed doors, with experts and professionals of cultural industries, in order to debate, chat and find common ground. The idea is creating  a document that sums up, both open and closed sessions, and that it will be made public through Creative Commons Licenses.

The event will take place with the help of Guillermo de Haro, the Instituto de Empresa and the Centro de Innovación de BBVA.

Tuesday 14th: Madrid Premiere.

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As you already know, the team, the actors and 800 people will be seating on one of the trendiest movie theaters of Madrid, with an after party not to be missed and a final surprise.

That afternoon, we will release Conspiracy, one of the most important transmedia pieces, so you can watch it before the pre release. At night, all other 12 pieces will be available. Keep an eye on the newsletter.

Wednesday 15: Hackathon Remix Madrid IED.

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Are you an editor? VJ? Mashup artist? Do you like to play around with images? This is our proposal:

As you know, we’re going to upload 2TB of the movie’s rushes. 140 hours of images, scenes, resource shots, sound and music. All under Creative Commons license so you can use it as you want, at any time, as long as you don’t make any money out of it.

How would you like to have many hard drives filled with all this information, just so you can do your own mixes and remixes for 12 straight hours?

When IED offered us to create this Hackathon, we almost fell over, because of the excitement of course. But the cherry on top of the pie came from our friends of Callao City Lights, who offered to lend us one of their giant TV screens on Plaza Callao to show the best transmedia pieces.

We will soon announce the time and conditions in order to participate in this event but please prepare your mind, your vision and your hands for a lot of editing, like 12 hours of it!

Meanwhile, we are trying to have that same event in Barcelona, New York, LA and San Francisco. Remix baby!

Friday 17th: Think Tank Barcelona 

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We are going to replicate the same event from Madrid, inviting new speakers, with questions from the audience and new ideas for the Think Tank. This time the event will take place with the help from the Instituto de cultura del Ayuntamiento de Barcelona, the Universidad Oberta de Catalunya, Permanent, the CCCB and the BCN Lab, one of the largest and trendiest innovation projects happening right now in Barcelona.

Session 1: RAVAL ROOM of CCCB

11:00 Opening. Free and Public presentation. Seating will be available on a first-come, first-served basis.

11:30 Event Presentation.

12:00 Round Table plus live Q&A with the audience.

Session 2 

During the afternoon, a Think Tank will be organized, behind closed doors, with experts and professionals of  cultural industries, in order to debate, chat and find common ground. The idea is creating  a document that sums up, both open and closed sessions, and that it will be made public through Creative Commons Licenses.

Saturday 18th: Multiscreen Worldwide Release

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The cosmonaut week will end with the best event of them all: the world premiere of The Cosmonaut for every single person on the world to watch it online or wherever he or she wants.

The premiere and after party in Barcelona will be, to put it in one word, awesome. We will wait for you there!

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Day & Date: big news

7/05/2013

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Our premise, since we started this project, has been always the same:

we want the viewer to see the movie when, how, and where he decides.

Actually, we would like this to be the case with every single movie.

It’s hard to sustain a profitable system when it’s based on scarcity, when that scarcity is no longer real. The reasons are many and divers, some are more moral, others less, but the truth is it has been imposed to the ancient cinema distribution systems.

Before, the movie had four lives: first in movie theaters, for some weeks… Then a DVD release… Later cable television and finally in public television. But the internet has brought a completely new way of consuming cinema.

Before, the exhibitor and the distributor were the ones that could decide. Today, they still can with the exception that a new tool has entered our lives so we can also have a voice in the decision. And it works just like a superpower: it can be used for good or for evil, but once its possibilities are discovered… it’s hard to go back.

We decided to assume that from an early stage and, instead of fighting against something inevitable… we embraced it and took advantage of those new possibilities.

That’s why our movie is going to be released on the same day on every single screen. It will be the viewer who chooses to watch the movie online… or by the dvd/usb or go to one of the many screenings that we are organizing all over the world. The best thing is that up until now we said “in all your screens” with a bit of guilt, as we didn’t knew for certain if that assertion was going to be true.

But today we have news. Spectacular news that’s going to allow us, not only to assert “in all your screens” with complete certainty, but also write another important chapter in this change that we are living and to which we try to contribute.

The Cosmonaut is going to be releases on May 18th on our website, in dvd/usb, in different movie theaters around the world and in TV.

Canal+ has decided to bet on us. To be ahead of their time and their competitors and assert themselves on their bet for new models.

The movie will be broadcasted on Canal+Xtra completely synched with the premiere in Barcelona and the online release. Besides this, the movie will also be available in Yomvi with some unique characteristics that will be revealed very soon.

Definitively, we have entered a new age and we are very happy to be a small part of it with all of you.

UPDATE: The movie will also be airing in Mexico and the US! Thanks to UDG TV you’ll be able to see the movie on the 18th and the 19th in Channel 44 at  23:30 (GMT -05:00) in Mexico; and on the 18th and the 19th on Channel 31.2 (LA, California) at  22:30 (GMT -07:00). Enjoy! :)


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The team that has made The Cosmonaut possible

3/05/2013

The Cosmonaut has been possible thanks to MANY people; such an amount of people that the film credits have almost 6000 names. But we would like to tell you about some of them, with their faces and stories; about the professionals that have been collaborating with as throughout many many hours, months, and even years. The passion, perseverance, trust, and professionalism they have shown do not deserve being applauded neither once nor twice, but their entire life. To all of them, even to the ones that are not here, THANK YOU. This would have never been possible without you.

JULIAJULIA BLATÚN

Julia has undoubtedly been our greatest guardian angel. We met her at college, in our photography class, when this entire Cosmonaut thing was no more than a short film. When we knew she was Russian, we chased her until we became friends. When we told her about the story of Stas, Andrei, and Yulia, she fell in love with the project, and she hasn’t stop helping us ever since. She is behind achieving the supporting letters of all the Russian cosmonauts, the right to use Artemyev music, that we visited Star City and were about to shoot there, or that she is organizing a great première of the film in Moscow the 3rd of June. She claims to be a “proud producer of The Cosmonaut, and I am also a happy daughter, girlfriend, sister, and aunt”. She is working in Moscow for ParaClassics, the portal of the FULL HD live transmission of the best classical music concerts, operas, and ballets. The shows are free for everyone. They now have a portal, but they are planning to expand it to cinemas, worldwide communication media webs, and they also have a project were they will screen it to children at hospitals.

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WENDY P. ESPINAL

She has been one of the most important hands in the production department since The Cosmonaut started. She is responsible for many of the achievements of the project in its first 3 years. After The Cosmonaut shooting, she decided to travel around the world developing her knowledge about cultural heritage. She is currently developing several cultural projects and her first documentary as a director, “la Isla sin Mar”.

CarlaCARLA JOVINE

Another crown jewel in The Cosmonaut’s production team. None of this would have been possible without her. She has worked as executive producer, event organizer, or production manager during the shooting. She is currently living in Dominican Republic, where she is working as producer in the film “María Montez“, to be shot in the middle 2013. Furthermore, she is developing her new project “La isla sin mar”, documentary directed by Wendy Espinal, that is due to be shot in November 2013. We love to have so many cosmonauts in the Caribbean!

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MIKI ÁVILA

He started as production intern and has ended as one of the most important persons of the project for us. During this journey, he has become one of the best photographers in the world (we dare to affirm it). He has been a tremendously hard-working person, loyal, and dedicated to the project. His web speaks about his spectacular work by itself.

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JAVIER SERRANO

Javier Serrano, assistant producer, is one of these guys you want to have by your side. A few days ago, he told us “I have been in this project almost since it started, and I have been really lucky to see how this started as a madness of some young filmmakers, and has become a real project, greater that we have ever expected.” He has helped producing the teaser trailers, The Cosmonaut concerts, and anything necessary. He has also been in charge of managing all the contracts with producers and investors, apart from the merchandising. As well as in The Cosmonaut, he has also participated in the production of several works for Riot Cinema, some short films, or projects such as Manic Pixie Dream Girl, by Pablo Maqueda, within the project Little Secret Films.

David CasasDAVID CASAS RIESCO

He has been the first assistant director in “The Cosmonaut”. David has not stopped in his 20 years of career, working as a first assistant director in series, TV films, feature films, advertising, video clips, and many short films (“Aquel no era yo ¨ Goya 2013, ¨El barco pirata¨ Goya 2012, “Matar a un niño” Nominated Goya 2012,” El Orden de la Cosas” Nominated Goya 2011, ¨Hentley¨ short-listed Sundance 2012. He is currently pre-producing three feature films due to 2013/2014.

Daniel MatesanzDANIEL MATESANZ

For Daniel Matesanz, “The Cosmonaut” was his second feature film as an assistant director. He has kept on sharing projects and experienceswith the film team ever since. He went to Chile some months ago to work in other feature films, and will now be following the opportunities that allow him directing his own works. This is the latest short film he released as a director.

raulaudaciaRAÚL VIÑAMBRES

Raúl has been our third assistant director. He has been working together with David Casas for years, and, although he couldn’t come to the shooting, his pre-production work was essential. He has also been working for Antena 3 Televisión for years, but his real passion is collaborating in film and audiovisual projects. You can know a bit more about him in his website.

elenaELENA MORENO-MARTET

Elena, our little kolibri, has been the script supervisor. She has paid attention to every detail, and her good mood made an impression in the whole team. She hasn’t stop making new projects after the shooting. She’s been fought over! You can read more about her in her web.

LuisLUIS ENRIQUE CARRIÓN

Luis Enrique Carrión has been the director of photography of the film being only 28. We are in love with his work, and we are sure The Cosmonaut is just the beginning of a great career. In his website , you can follow his work in short films, TV series, advertisements, and video clips, as well as tasters of his second film, and a documentary shot in Mexico. He has worked for clients all over Europe, as well as clients in Russia and the USA. He tells us: “I am interested in finding the language of emotions in an image, I think is the right way to trust the feelings of human self-knowledge. I believe in the power of image. Colours, composition, structure, and contrast are the parameters I consider essential for moving the viewer to a specific emotional state.”

PabloPABLO CLEMENTE

He has been the director of photography of The Cosmonaut’s Transmedia, as well as the second unit in the film. As a director of photography, he has been working for 3 years non-stop for clients such as Evo, El Hormiguero, or Kodak, as well as in video clips for Love of Lesbian, Carlos Jean, or Sick of Love. You can see through his sight in his web.

Paco Serrano PACO SERRANO

He is the one telling us: “7 or 8 years ago, I had my first cosmonaut experience (cosmos connection). I was in an essential moment of my career; I had to hold to the first opportunities as a cameraman. I bought a modest but heavy steadicam. I had my light equipment and indie experience as cameraman and director of photography, but I had a lack of self-confidence and security. But then I found Nico, Carola, and Bruno, and my life changed: the obstacles, prejudices, ingratitude, fears, and mistrust left room for friendship, honesty, talent, confidence, love for the seventh art…, so the opportunity I have always dreamt of arrived, shooting my first film: The Cosmonaut. I worked as assistant, electrician, focus puller, cameraman, and friend. Spaniards, Latvians, English, and Russians with love, effort, sacrifice, persistence; and thanks to the confidence and generosity of the great community we are, I daydreamt, I daydream, and I will daydream together with Riot forever in the seventh art! Thanks.”

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ADÁN MARTÍN QUIJANO

Adán has been the gaffer, second assistant camera, and our magic hands fixing everything in the shooting. Although he has been timid in the audiovisual world, he has been working for more than 4 years as photographer and assistant. One of his latest works was the series by Álvaro Collar The Third Place. Even though he keeps it in secret, he is an actual magician of special effects and 3D. You can know more about him in his Flickr account and his website.

ManuMANUEL PORTILLO

Manuel has been our DIT. His work was controlling all the shooting workflow, material dump, backups, and pre-colour correction in the shooting set, so everything was in its right place. In this category, he has worked for clients such as Evo and El hormiguero. Furthermore, Manu is a director, and has shot spots for Windows, Ricoh, Hispanitas, Vouiton, El Pais, or Warner Music. And, since this guy is multi-functional, he is also an editor!, and you have probably seen any of the videos he made for Red Bull, Mercedes, Nike or UEM…

MargaritaMARGARITA MANSILLA

Margarita, best known by her Russian nickname: Gula, has been the costume design director of The Cosmonaut. She joined us when this was just a short film, and she ended up being an essential part of the production. She has just released her own company, Lekanto, specialized in costume design and art works for audiovisual projects, as well as in different services for events.

ArantzaARANTZA G. ARGÜELLO

Arantza was part of the costume and wardrobe department of the film as assistant costume designer, stylist, etc. You can see hereher professional portfolio. Arantza hasn’t stop doing things ever since, and she is now combining costume designing tasks of two feature films (a horror western and a comedy) together with other jobs in advertising and television as a stylist and props person.

María ZMARIJA ZHUK

We met María in Latvia. She is very close to the Forma Pro team, with whom she often works, and she joined The Cosmonaut team supporting the costume department. Thanks to her skilful hands and her permanent smile, she made the job of the costume department possible, since this department was almost exploited during our days in Latvia. It would have never been possible without her!

lucilenoxLUCI LENOX

Luci has been the casting director of The Cosmonaut. She works non-stop in several different and interesting projects. She moves around Spain and also in international projects. Despite the pessimism and the disastrous feeling of nowadays audiovisual environment, she believes that the future of cinema is really positive. She has told us that she can’t wait to see The Cosmonaut :P

peceraDAVID RODRÍGUEZ (PECERA STUDIO)

David is the founder of Pecera Estudio and has worked with us in the film sound edition, and the webisode “The Moon Files”. David has been a kind of angel, and really patient with our inexperience and our mistakes. His work in films by Almodovar, such as “All Abour My Mother”, and other brilliant films, such as “Planet 51”, “Buried”, “Transiberian”, “Sexy Killer”, “Chaotic Ana”, or “As Luck Would Have It”, is a clear example of his professional greatness, but they don’t remotely make justice to his great personal and artistic kindness. The film wouldn’t be the same without him.

LarraJOSE LUIS LARA

“Larra”, as we all call him, has a problem: if you call him Jose Luis, he doesn’t realize you are addressing him. He has been the live sound designer of the shooting, together with Rubén Durán, as well as the sound editor of half of the transmedia episodes. He has already worked in two feature films, and with clients such as Red Bull and YouFest. You can learn further about him in his company website, La Taiga.

rubenRUBÉN DURÁN

Rubén Durán, “Labarba“, is one of our sound designers that worked with live sound, post-production, and musical recordings. He has collaborated in the spots by Riot cinema from the beginning, as well as enrolling “The Cosmonaut” (live sound and transmedia post-production). In his new stage, he has established a studio on his own: Labarba, in which he is working in the pre-production of our next (and totally secret) great project, and in his works together with other companies of his trade, such as Mirinda Films, Vlue, NYSU Films, or Sinedie VD. You can see his reel here.

Carlos Serrano Azcona Diector (Leeds)-2CARLOS SERRANO AZCONA

He is a Basque editor and director who established his production company Estar Ahí Cinema in 2006. With this production company, he produced and directed The Tree (co-produced by Jaime Rosales and Carlos Reygadas), Quantum men (with C.Jodorowsky), False Flags and Falsos horizontes. As an editor, he has worked in films such as Japan by Carlos Reygadas, Banaras me and (a)Mari. He is currently waiting for new editing works, and finishing writing a new fiction script. He has signed the film editing together with Nicolás Alcalá.

Dani GDANIEL GARCÍA

Daniel has been our magician and saviour in the editing room. He has been with us since we finished the shooting in 2011, and has been the one who had to suffer many sleepless nights waiting for the endless renders to be finished. He had to rack his brain to organize the 140 hours of raw material we had, the collaborations of every department, and the 38 final pieces we have produced, with their many versions and formats. Furthermore, he made some effects for the film, graphics for the transmedia, and the trailer editing. This guy from Extremadura has worked in other independent feature films, such as El Mundo Es Nuestro or the upcoming La Fabulosa Historia de la Tabla de Multiplicar. You can find him here.

VictorVICTOR GARCÍA RIVERO

Victor joined the team not long ago, but has worked as many hours as any other. His commitment, good work, and permanent smile have made us happy every day in the office for the last months. His job? He had to deal with all the transmedia material export, organization, and management, together with Daniel García. More information about him here.

Arturo-RepublicSoldierARTURO M. ANTOLÍN

Arturo is really versatile: editor, producer, filmmaker, director… Although he claims to be a potential scriptwriter, he is about to join the cinema school. He is always involved in thousands of projects, each of them stranger than the previous one. You can see most of his works in his website. He is a critic and contributor in Videodromo and Duckspeaking. His work editing transmedia pieces and video diaries has been crucial. He has also done the editing of our wonderful trailer.

Daniel CascalesDANIEL CASCALES

He has been our editing assistant for months, helping us with the first part of the enormous job we had after the shooting, with more than 140 hours of raw shooting. After leaving The Cosmonaut some months ago, he got involved in the shooting of a wonderful short film: Barely Legal, set in his home town, Aguadulce (Almería), with the collaboration of Riot Cinema, where we were just a humble spiritual guide of the project.

Ana BANA BLÁZQUEZ

Ana was a college mate, and has been combining different jobs with helping us as an assistant in the editing room for some months. She had to watch all the raw material to synchronize the audios!

JOanJOAN VALENT

As chaotic as great, Joan Valent Joan Valent has been the composer of the film’s original sound track. He composed some original tracks, one of them together with the great Rocío León, and gave up some of the songs of his excellent album “Ínsula Poética”. Joan is one of the most successful Spanish sound track composers. He is always on the road and giving concerts all over the world, and is the only alive Spanish composer Deutsche Grammophon publishes.

RemateREMATE

Remate has been the composer of the alternative sound track of “The Cosmonaut”. You can listen to it in the credit titles, as well as in several transmedia pieces. You can learn more about him in his website. Nevertheless, after his concert in Sala Heineken, this great artist has been with us in our journey.

FPF logoFORMA PRO FILMS

Forma Pro is the Latvian production company that provided all the production services in our 5/6 weeks shooting in Latvia in summer 2011. They did a really sacrificed job, because they got really involved in the project trying to solve any of the thousands of problems we had every day. Although their eating ways are far different from ours! We are really grateful for finding such workaholics. They are Stas, Igor, Kate, Sasha, Puma, Max, Denis, Lelde, Vilius, Mindaugas, Inese, Sveta, Iveta, and many more!

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ENTROPY STUDIO
They told us: “Some months ago Entropy Studio joined “The Cosmonaut” adventure, dealing with recreating the magic world where this story happens. After many days working with the director, sharing his ideas and feelings, we created the VFX world of “The Cosmonaut”. We don’t stop at Entropy Studio! We keep on making the VFX for national TV series, as well as for advertising, both at a national and international level. We are also involved in several stereoscopy projects for cinema. We are making great advertising campaigns from Dubai, and working in several Hollywood projects from our office in Los Angeles.”

Deluxe_rgb_logo_no®DELUXE

Deluxe eis one of the most important post-production and colour correction studios in Europe. We almost didn’t believe it when they told us they wanted to collaborate with the project. Marga, the production manager, tells us about the experience: “The Cosmonaut has been something unexpected, exciting. As post-production manager, it is always stimulating to work with new approaches, exercises, ways of expression. Always helping the film to grow up. I love challenges, and it has been a pleasure being part (even in a small part) of this journey, even more in the hard moments our sector is going through.” Miguel Pérez Gilaberte has been our colour corrector and dedicates these exciting words to us: “Each film is a journey. With The Cosmonaut, we have not only travelled into a world of feelings and emotions, but it was also a trip together with the excitement and enthusiasm of making a film with simple means, but spectacular results.

babaluvoxBABALUVOX

Even though this was not our initial plan, “The Cosmonaut” is going to be dubbed into Spanish thanks to this company from Corunna, Babalúvox. A really hard work so those who are not used to read subtitles can enjoy the film.

Carlos_Subbabel-2SUBBABEL

Subbabel, a company from the Canary Islands that contacted us at the beginning of the project, has been in charge of all the Spanish subtitles of the film. Carlos, one of its owners, told us “I hope I got and transmitted The Cosmonaut’s essence well, so you enjoy watching it as much as I translating it :)

Card_Dromocromo-01 copiaROBIN&WATSON

Robin&Watson was an experiment. A work platform specialized in communication strategies that was born in 2009. Its main aim? Democratizing the access to promotion, spreading, and boost formulas for ONGs, group projects, associations, and collectives. They were our best advisors when the project started. They told us: “Alicia, Juan, and Daria, we were lucky to meet Nico, Carola, and Bruno to start building the first steps in communication and community around the project. These were stimulating days, and when we understood what it was about, we didn’t hesitate in diving into it: The Cosmonaut was and is still a wonderful challenge. Now Robin&Watson has changed and has become a project focused in video production and specific campaigns, and it’s now called Dromocromo.”

GabrielaGABRIELA LENDO

Gabriela Lendo is Mexican, and we met her when this was just starting. She has been our best advisor, our best communication partner, our best friend, and our best critic. Everything coming out of her mouth is pure wisdom, and apart from being a journalist, she can carry out any task she wants. Furthermore, she is a great cook! She is now working in Estudio Vostok.

moovie hooligansMOVIE HOOLIGANS

This mysterious member of the old communication team prefers us to talk about his job instead of himself. Movie Hooligans is his latest project. His motto? “The day the cinema days, we’ll be out in the streets to celebrate it.”

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BLANCA BALANZÓ

Blanca started together with Gabriela Lendo and was soon the press officer of the project. After a really long return trip, we were really glad she came back to the end of the project. She is a journalist, community manager, and works as communication manager. When she wants to get everything out of her, she does it at misarrebatos.com

Pepe GarcíaPEPE GARCÍA

Pure temper, he was with us for some months in the communication team. He is currently working as New Media and creative manager in G2 Grey Group, which is specialized in communication strategies and participation in social media, advertising, and press specialized in technology and culture. He says “The Cosmonaut is the best and most successful creative communication and social media lab I have ever worked in

ie_formas_finalLUIS MIGUEL Y PEPA BARRAL, TWO MUCH

Inteligenciaetica.com is a project by Luis Miguel Barral and Pepa Barral, siblings and researchers that work applying Social Science to brands.
From Inteligencia Ética, they help their clients to grow up, connecting their brands with he citizen, the human being, and the living being every consumer is. The film would have never existed without their help.

MairenaMAIRENA RUIZ

Journalist and audiovisual communicator, she has a Master’s Degree in Cinema and TV script. She arrived as script intern, and stayed as essential part of the project. Co-creator and scriptwriter of Nayik, she is a transmedia and social network passionate.

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MILENA CAÑAS

She started working at The Cosmonaut doing one of the things she most likes: writing. After a long summer, the first story told through facebook was born: Nayik, her first transmedia script professional experience. Nowadays, she is still writing, trying new formats, without forgetting about the feature film she had in process.

Altea-2ALTEA ALCALDE

Altea joined the team at the beginning, and she used to repeat the same: “This Cosmonaut guys have always been really crazy ;)”. She witnessed the first media appearances and made the concert at Sala Heineken possible. She has started her first company “Plano Americano”, which is currently producing the short film “La noche de todos los santos“, founded trough crowdfunding. More about her in her website.

POL RODRÍGUEZ

He has dealt with the translation of documents and preparation of resources for media. We asked him for some words, and this is what he told us: “I am satisfied I could closely (as close as the internet) follow this bold odyssey. I’m now preparing my own adventure: going to the toilet with the lights off at 5 am and aim the toilet bowl, after writing these lines. I’m a human being, and as such, I spend most of my time eating and sleeping to preserve my mortal shell. I enjoy learning languages, meeting people, and creating. I work for money and prostitute for free.”

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MARI TRINI GINER

She helped us for some months in the management and dynamisation of digital identity in social networks. She is currently working as a freelance journalist, focused on cultural communication, mainly on-line, as in Ondacero radio programme “Con Manos Libres”. Besides, she works in different companies managing the communication of cultural shows.

Germán A. Panarisi-2GERMÁN A. PANARISI

Germán makes us blush and says about us: “When I heard about The Cosmonaut for the first time and about all the things the project tried to carry out (and how to carry them out), I found it so fascinating and revolutionary that I didn’t want to be left out. I knew that the three idealist young fellows behind this enterprise were going mark a milestone, not only in cinema history, but in the cultural industry in general. We can see that this has become true: many of the things they suggested as new (e.g. crowdfunding) are now realities that have widespread to all the fields of artistic production, and even further away from the cultural environment.”

Jaime-2JAIME ASENSIO

Jaime has been member of the production team and a witness of The Cosmonaut’s first steps, first words, and first driving lessons. You may know him for lending his physical presence as Stas (uncredited). He is currently living badly in London as a bounty hunter. He moves from corporate videos for small and medium companies to photo books for new young actors and models. If you can find him, maybe you can hire him. After shooting his first short film written in the Shakespearean language “Ocean Of Noise” (Ella Bruccolleri, London 2013), he is getting ready for starting a new work adventure for the start-ups web skillflick.

cris-2CRISTINA OVANDO

She took (wonderfully) charge of “The Cosmonaut” shop with Javier Serrano while we were shooting, and we hired her for Riot Cinema shooting production. She started to get closer to the wardrobe world, and some months ago she decided to join “Lekanto“, an adventure together with Margarita Mansilla.

Borja-2BORJA ESCRIBANO

He started as an intern in the training period of his Audiovisual Production studies, and nowadays he is still collaborating with us when he can. As he says, he owes a big part of what he knows about cinema production to The Cosmonaut team. “For me, this is more than I project I (humbly) collaborated with, it is the starting point of (I hope) a long journey in this huge, beautiful and complicated world of cinema.”

VanessaVANESA RODRÍGUEZ GONZÁLEZ

She is addicted to technology and a chocolate lover. She has worked in many different short films as first assistant production, documentary maker, and, nowadays, she combines her job as music shop assistant at Fnac with her work as Community manager in a communication agency. You can find her here.

Juan FernándezJUAN FERNÁNDEZ DÍEZ

We met Juan at the CineJoven festival of Malaga, of which he was the organizer. He probably liked our chat, because he hasn’t stop helping us in different parts of production, his work field, ever since. Some months ago he decided to come to Madrid to study, and we know he has some future projects.

maríaMARÍA SANTONJA

Maria Santonja has a degree in Audiovisual Communication and in Advertising and Public Relations. In 2009, he knew about The Cosmonaut and became a producer. The following year, she met the Riot Cinema team by chance in a conference, and from that moment, she started to collaborate in pre-production tasks of the film, mainly looking for sponsors. Thanks to her, we were sponsored by Rode which supplied us part of the sound material for the shooting! More about her here.

Steve Galache1STEVE GALACHE

Apart from being our “Sasha” in the film, he is now in charge of all The Cosmonaut’s translations into English through his company SG Linguistics. Although you have probably heard him in the voice over of some advertisements (Telefónica, Swatch, London Gin…), he mainly deals, together with his company, with linguistic advising for different companies. He is also preparing a Doctorate, and he does some mischief in the time he has left, such as shooting a #littlesecretfilm.

Susie QSUSIE SALDANHA

She has been the translator team coordinator for quite a long time. She now lives in Barcelona, where she works for MotoGP Grand Prix worldwide, but you can follow her here.

Daniel SaavedraDANIEL SAAVEDRA

Daniel has been a very active member in the translation team for almost 3 years. He has been a freelance translator for more than 6 years, and this is his website.

javier-pinto1-Tel-678942228JAVIER PINTO

Javier, from Alicante, joined the project at its first stage. He has been assistant in the translation team and editor/sponsor of the second edition of Poetics for Cosmonauts (which he also re-invested in the project).

ANGÉLICAANGÉLICA MARTÍNEZ

Angélica has been for months an active member of the translation team into English. This Dominican girl works as a Telecommunications Consultant for Optiva Media, and is currently in the integration project of TiVo for Ono in Spain as Senior QE Software Engineer.

ShakingAsia-grandeSHAKING ASIA

They have translated the web and the business plan (best known as The Plan) into Japanese, and also gave an Asian touch to the team. As ShakingAsia they help several technology companies to get into the Japanese market, and work hard to get further.

miriam-2MIRIAM MIRA

Miriam, apart from bearing that the living room of his house was Riot Cinema office when we were starting the project, has been the merchandising manager in the first and more important stages of the film. We owe her the management of the lovely packaging many of you received, as well as many other necessary things in its production. She is in London showing all she knows in the world of fashion.

ángel trancónÁNGEL TRANCÓN

From 2009 to 2013, he has made posters, illustrated “The Plan”, FX storyboards, merchandising, and transmedia animation, and everything drawable and conceivable. He is now dedicated to publishing illustration as a freelance, and in an artistic and commercial project in which several artists try to reinvent portrait with a fresh air.

sonia delgado-2SONIA DELGADO

Sonia has collaborated doing what she can do best: drawing and illustrating with characters and different elements anything about “The Cosmonaut”, such as badges, flyers, “The plan”, graphics, etc. She is now involved in a project for her own wear brand, MissiMissiMadrid, in which she designs clothes and exclusive complements.

MarioMARIO ORELLANA

Mario has been an occasional but essential collaborator. He is a street art fan who combines his photography talent with projects like “Wash your mouth”, and other interesting things. Everything is in his website.

Alex para heraldoÁLEX RODRIGO

It’s been 5 years since we changed from sharing the college corridors to working together. He has made spots, virals… for us, worked as producer or composer, and we have also helped him in the production of his own products, such as his latest adventure: www.libreslaserie.com

EzequielEZEQUIEL ROMERO

Ezequiel helped us in many different things at the beginning of the project: edition and visual effects in the first teasers, some spots for our first events… and many other things! He directed a short film (Moon Dust) with our help, using material that you would see in the film. He is now working as an actor, director of photography, and editor/post-producer in many projects. He has just shot Nova, a science fiction film for the initiative #littlesecrefilm, and he is preparing new projects as director.

tecnilógicaTECNILÓGICA

They are some old clients of us who address us such beautiful words as these: “Some years ago, we decided to invest in The Cosmonaut. We fell in love with the project, and we had the opportunity to see how professional and work passionate the people from Riot Cinema were. I cannot say if it seemed a safe investment in terms of profitability, but it was going to allow us to closely follow an exciting project. We decided to do our bit ever since as far as we could: helping in logistics, lending machines, or giving advices in computing safety. Now, we are also dealing with the programming of the new web of the film, and that make as really proud.” And this makes us a hell prouder! You can contact them here.

logo veníVENÍ

Great, creative, and smiling, Vení are Fran Asensio, Gabriela Ovando, and Alicia Barrientos. They create branding, websites, motion graphics, animated video clips, video, illustrations, and a bit of 3D. Nevertheless, they will go down in history for designing and executing the amazing and historical 20 minutes film credits with almost 6000 names.

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VOSTOK

Vostok is a design and strategy studio of digital products, whose headquarters are in Madrid. They were the ones to design the first two versions of The Cosmonaut website. They are obsessed with honesty and elegance, and they work for cool companies such as filmin, minube, and Ducksboard. Their latest project is Caoba, the first (not old-fashioned) dating app for iPhone.

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VILIUS VANAGAS

Bilis was the art director, and designer, who proved that a person can work for 3 weeks in a row sleeping no more than two hours a day. His touch and knowledg had made the film have an amazing art. He is now working as art director in a new project: Sangaile.

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World Multiscreen Premiere: Barcelona

1/05/2013

Start the drum roll…

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We can finally give you all the details of the film’s OFFICIAL Multiscreen premiere. After the pre premiere we’re gonna have in Madrid in May the 14th with the team and the actors (there still are a few tickets left if you don’t have one) We’re gonna present the movie officially in Barcelona on May the 18th, it’s gonna be grand and.. It’s gonna be in all your screens.

Buy your tickets here

Four years full of work, hopes and surprises… all in the same night. This is the official program:

Date: May the 18th from 19:30 to 01:00

Place: CCCB (Centro de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona)

Program and spaces:

The entry time is at 19:30 hours. All the tickets will give access to the hall where there’ll be a snack bar where you can eat, drink and by the movie’s merchandise, also you’ll be able to watch some making of clips in some screens and admire the cosmonaut suit and some of the costumes from the film.

TEATRO ROOM:

- 20:00 Projection of selected transmedia pieces (20’-30’)
- 20.30 The team presents the film. We’ll connect with other premieres and special people involved in this special day through streaming and we’ll “push the button” so that the finally the entire world will be able to view the film online. The moment of great launching.

Those of you who can’t be there with us, (there will only be 300 lucky people) you’ll be to follow it through streaming or through the screen in the secondary room of the CCCB.

- 21:00 First projection of the film with its historic 20 minutes of credits.
- 22.45 Projection of a transmedia piece (12’).

After the projection we’ll go to the Raval Room for a Q&A with the film’s team at the same time that the second screening starts for those who didn’t get tickets at first.

- 23:00 Second projection of the movie.

RAVAL ROOM:

- 20:00 -23:00 Projection of different transmedia pieces, making of pieces and retransmission of the movie presentation in the other room.

- 23:00 Q&A with the film’s team. You’ll be able to follow it through streaming. (This room has limited seats so we’ll retransmit for those who can’t get in).

There’s only space in the TEATRO room for 300 people, which is why we’ll sell two types of tickets: Session 1 and Session 2.

With both types you can access the building since the doors open and to the Raval room from where you can see everything that happens in the main room, watch transmedia pieces and later on, go to the Q&A.

Session 1 ticket prices are of 10€ and for Session 2 they’re of the 7€. You can buy your tickets here. Now you only have to tell everyone you know so that together we can say it was absolutely EPIC.

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PS1: We know… We know… all of you who read the plan are thinking of one thing: Cosmonaut WEEK. We’ll tell you all about that in a couple of days ;)

PS2: This awesome premiere is possible thanks to a lot of people. So here they are:

Alberto Tognazzi and his team of superheroes Marc Prades y Kike Doatis.

Antoni Roig and Alejandra Armor.

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Inés Garriga helped by Cristina Salvador y Nadala.

Last but certainly not least  Ángela Martínez, Gloria Vilches, Juan Insua, Amalia Llabrés y and all the CCCB team: thank you soooo much!!!

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The new era for distribution

18/04/2013

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Imagine this: one day you receive an email from a guy in Kiev, Ukraine. “Hey, I loved the concept of your film. I want to screen it in my movie theater for 3 weeks”. The next day 3 dots pop up in your “demand” map in Minneapolis where 3 people have requested a screening. That afternoon the owner of a movie theater in the same city writes you to tell you that he has received several calls asking for a film called The Cosmonaut and he wants to know if you own the rights so he can screen it. Then, like a virus, one crazy distributor is going to rent a bus and tour your film through all the small towns along Côte d’Azur, the scientist at the american space center in Madrid want to make a tour around the gigantic satellite plates and then screen the film and the employees working at the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) in Geneva are going to do a Q&A around the film in their cine club.

Quito, Montreal, Los Angeles, New York, Louisiana, London, Moscow, Buenos Aires… 

What if anybody, anywhere in the world, were able to organize a screening of our film? Sharing the profits with us or for free. At their own risk. Sharing the passion with us. Promoting something they love.

That’s what we asked ourselves four years ago. Now, with all those screenings in place and many more happening every day, it’s starting to make sense. This is the new era for distribution we’ve been talking about for so long…

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And that’s exactly why meeting the tugg guys at SXSW was so awesome. Today, we are happy to announce you we are partnering up with them for the US distribution of The Cosmonaut.

Nancy Schafer, former Exec Director of the Tribeca Film Festival, elaborates on the whys

It seems that everywhere I go someone is mentioning Tugg. I”m pretty obsessed with finding new distribution models for films, and Tugg is on to something. There are a lot of good films out there that deserve to be shown in theaters, but the road to a traditional theatrical distribution of a film is costly and difficult. Tugg helps solve that problem, by giving audiences the ability to use their social networks to “demand” that the film screen in their neighborhood. It’s a great model, and I was delighted when Dan at Tugg got behind The Cosmonaut.
When I met Nico at SXSW, his clarity of vision and understanding of the new funding and distribution models got me really excited to work with him. I could hear the same from Dan when we talked to him about the film. Nico, Carola and Bruno have created a circle of people who are joined with them in their vision for building audiences and getting everyone in the world to watch their film. The Cosmonaut circle, which I only joined recently, keeps getting bigger. Tugg has joined us, won’t you? Request a Tugg screening where you are or join the existing ones if you are in the US or do it for the rest of the world right here.
But this is not it regarding our US distribution. Because once the love begins to flow… it can turn into a tsunami.

A few years ago I read an article that talked about how artists should work together. I can’t remember who wrote it and I haven’t been able to find it but that idea got stuck on my mind.

Although The Cosmonaut has been a massive collaborative effort with almost 5000 people helping us to make the film and without considering the fact that we’ve been as open and transparent as we could in order to share our knowledge for other filmmakers to learn whatever they could from us… Truth is we haven’t collaborated a lot with other fellow filmmakers.

I don’t know the reasons, it just happened. But I think it’s time to change it. Because helping each other is beautiful. Because together we are bigger and better. And because most of our communities are the same and share the same interests.

A few days ago Timo Vuorensola wrote a post about our film. Timo is the director of the film Iron Sky, which has probably been the main inspiration for The Cosmonaut on terms of creating a community, giving back cool stuff to fans and engaging through content. The post was just… awesome.

But that was just the beginning. Now, thanks to our friends at tugg, they are going to help us put together as many screenings of the film as we can. They are going to tell their community about us and help us spread the word. Just because they like us as much as we like them.

That’s what collaborative filmmaking is about. It’s about great content, fans and artists together and all of us helping each other in a friendly ecosystem.

Or put in other words… Indie Love, baby!

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