"I want a million euros for The Cosmonaut"
We recently had the honor to meet Carlos Sánchez-Almeida.
Carlos Sánchez-Almeida is, according to google, a lawyer specialized in computer crime and security in new technologies.
To us, he is the most free and liveliest spirits that has flown over this decade. He is the best speaker and theoretical writer we've ever read on the net, and a brilliant mind in the blind period of these dark years.
We have enjoyed each of his writings published on the internet, those which he signs, and those he doesn't, his theories, his tantrums, and his wise motives. And we can proudly say he has been a pillar on which to build our theories about a free cinema, and about this new model we're trying to create.
We had the honor to meet him. To have him read our project. To receive his warm words of enthusiasm.
And now we can proudly say that he supports The Cosmonaut 100%, and we'll be able to count with his legal help in case we have problems with certain institutions, and specifically with a little idea that has been going round our heads and will be announced at the right time. But, not happy enough with all this, he has also written an open letter to the Minister for Cultural Affairs, Ms. Ángeles Gonzalez-Sinde, with which we've cried from laughter.
There are not enough blogs to thank you Carlos.
Enjoy:
Pestering digression: open letter to the Ministry of Cultural Affairs.
From: Carlos Sánchez-Almeida, [csalmeida@xxxxxxxxxxxx.com]
To: Ángeles González-Sinde Reig, [ministra@mcu.es]
Cc: Ignasi Guardans Cambó, [icaa@mcu.es], Expert Commission on Film Production Public Support [losquerepartenlapasta@mcu.es]
Subject: I want a million euros for The Cosmonaut
Dear Minister, Head of the
Under the Article 29 of the Constitution and the Organic Law 4/2001, regulatory frame for the petition right, I address you this letter in order for you to give us some dough.
In short, as for the long part of the matter you already have enough advisors: I want a million euros for thecosmonaut.org
As I'm aware that you like the legal-festive literature, I will start by the pleas in law. The Expert Commission in charge of giving the dough was founded according to the Cultural Affair's Ministerial Order 4028/2007, of December 28th (how naïve...).
By the December 11th, 2008 Resolution, from the Institute of Cinematography and Audiovisual Arts, an official announcement was made for project subsidies on feature film productions where there is new directors, on the production of experimental work of determined artistic and cultural content and on the production of documentaries and animation series, under Article 11 of the Royal Decree 526/2002 of June 14th. For these funding initiatives an amount of 10.000.000 euros was held in reserve, chargeable to the available credit in the budgetary account 24.101.470, Cinematography Shelter Fund, of the
So, you have 15 million euros to finance, amongst others, "experimental projects, or those of determined artistic and cultural content, considered "not easy to finance". You know what? That's exactly what thecosmonaut.org was looking for.
Let's look at the grounds of the matter. "There is a reason", and a big one: The Cosmonaut is a Spanish project for a science-fiction film produced by many, in an open and participative way, with a Creative Commons license so that anyone can edit, name, remix and copy as they please. That is, all investments in the film will be to the advantage of the community.
Whether the script is good or not, we'll let the Minister decide, as she is a connoisseur. Here is the synopsis:
"What if you got back home... and there was nobody there? In 1975, the first Russian cosmonaut on the Moon is unable to make his way back and is declared missing in Space. However, through ghostly radio messages, he claims to have come back to Earth and found it empty, not a living soul. His unrealistic presence and his voice will little by little destroy the world of his beloved ones."
For a moment there I thought I was the cosmonaut, sending ghostly messages to an empty Ministry of Cultural Affairs, not a soul in it.
Please, prove me wrong. Prove that you are alive. Prove that you still believe in the miracle of cinema. The miracle of a cinema with no copyright.
One million euros, Mr. Guardans, to prove that you still believe in fundamental rights, to convince us that the scene you made for not taking your shoes off at
I assure you it will be the best investment you will make in your lives.
Yours faithfully,
Carlos Sánchez-Almeida
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