Remix Me, Baby!
From the start we've intended The Cosmonaut to be a participatory experience. An experience that might help us prove the power of using free licenses. Having played with different options and after a serious trial period, we are launching in collaboration with The Auteurs the first remix contest that will help us achieve just that: the Teaser Remix Experience.
You can enter the contest We have put at your disposal 30 video clips (we haven't even used half of them :P), sound environment, CGI, music (two samples of Artemyev's soundtrack for Tarkovski's Solarys), voiceovers in Russian and English and title backgrounds, everything you need is in there!.
You have until the 31st of March to send in your remix teaser.
The winners will be announced in this year's edition of the Yuri's Night.
To bring you this contest we've been working side by side with:
The Auteurs - Online cinematéque and distributor of The Criterion Collection, has collaborated with Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Foundation. With more than a million users it has become THE place to watch, recommend, comment and debate -and now even edit- auteur cinema online :)
Garage - A division of The Auteurs Garage is a collaborative initiative, an online film school that has been recently launched to connect filmmakers from all over the world to work in editing, filming and production projects. Perhaps you've heard of it 'cause it's been generating loads of buzz.
Lomography Spain - Spain's official representative of the photographic phenomenon born in Russia -with strong ties to military photography- a few decades ago. A few months ago they helped us put together " Dreams of the Cosmonaut", a collaborative experience where hundreds of lomo photos explored the Universe of a film that hasn't even been born yet. Now they've put at your disposal all that material licensed under CC and will award the best remixers with cameras of Russian names :)
Unifest - After four editions where more than 80 universities from over 30 countries have participated, UNIFEST celebrates its fifth anniversary giving out over 8000€ in prizes to University students. The definitive festival when it comes to cinema created by university students. We will soon reveal the prizes UNIFEST will give-out to university student remixers.
SafeCreative - the first online copyright registry in the world: global, free, open and independent. It offers creators the opportunity to register and host their works and supports all kinds of licences (from traditional copyright to Creative Commons to à la carte licenses). Part of an ambitious collaboration with Riot Cinema, SC will eventually host the film and all our raw footage. What's more, they'll aid us in figuring out the semantic ID of the film online, in other words, the best way to let users know which licenses are free and which are restricted without confusing links, no added documentation and without altering the film itself.
The Internet Archive - A non-profit organization whose main purpose is to preserve all free licensed multimedia, or those works filmmakers have decided to share freely. It's by far the largest open source film, audio and text archive. The Cosmonaut, and all raw footage, will be hosted in the "Open Source Video" section.
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