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What if you got home from space …

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- “What if you got back home —- and there was nobody there?

“In 1973, 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 unreal presence and voice will little by little destroy the world of his loved ones.”

If the quotes above look like clips from a sci-fi movie promo, that’s because because they are.

“Hello,” says an email from Pol Rodríguez. “I am writing you because, since P2P is about free information and media, I think you could be interested in the latest

project of the independent cinematographic company where I work, Riot Cinema

Collective.”

Interesting.

“A SCI-FI feature film produced by lots of people (like YOU) starting from 2€. Licenced as Creative Commons so that you can edit it, copy it, remix it and share it as your wish. For Free.

“???????!.”

So it says on the web site for The Cosmonaut.

In his email, Pol goes on »»»

Directors from everywhere in the world have been looking for years for alternative models of funding, exhibition and distribution that actually work in this new scene, and in some way our project, called “The Cosmonaut”, is our contribution to this debate. The Cosmonaut is a full length sci-fi film project financed with crowdfunding (the public itself produces the movie, amongst other sources ), and its premiere will be free, in HD, on the internet and under a Creative Commons License.

The film tells the story of the first Russian cosmonaut sent to the moon. He disappears, but eventually, radio messages from him are received. In them, he claims he has come back to earth, finding it empty.We already have the support from various institutions and personalities, such as *Sergey Volkov* (a Russian Cosmonaut) *J.L. Ruiz de Gopegui*(theformer director of NASA Programs in Spain),*Richard Stallman* (founder of the GNU and Free Software Foundation), or the *Laboratory for Experimentation in Space and Microgravity*, as well as lots of other people and entities, that can be seen in http://www.thecosmonaut.org.

(A funny fact: thanks to this collaborations, for example, everyone who contributes to the film participates in a prize draw for an authentic cosmonaut suit!)

From its beginning, the project seeks the creation of a closer relation withits audience and invites everyone to participate in the different stages of the film production. As said, it is mainly funded through crowdfunding and non-invasive publicity, and everyone who decides to get involved (from a minimum inversion of two euros) becomes a producer, being a member of ourcommunity “K Program” and always receiving something in exchange.

The premiere of the film (in spanish with english subtitles) will be in the internet, for everyone, for free, and in HD.

All the material created until now and everything there is to come is, andwill always be, under a Creative Commons License, so anyone can access it,copy it, remix it, and redistribute it, even commercially.

And – a very important point to us – we always keep a premise oftransparency.

We uploaded our site on the begining of this summer and we are surprisedwith the general response. We already have more than 1000 producers and the 65% of the funds we need and every day more and more producers and collaborators from all areas  decide to join or work with us.

If you check it out you’ll find a short version of the script, a project dossier http://s268192870.mialojamiento.es/The_Cosmonaut.pdf, a press kitand some more information. There’s also a blog called Diario de abordo http://elcosmonauta.es/blog/(OnboardDiary).

We have not had the time to translate all  the posts to the English version yet, but it’s very active.

There’s a short video about the project. BUT —-  it’s in rapid-fire Spanish. ;p http://www.vimeo.com/4652176

Definitely stay tuned.

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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi

October, 2009

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