So, major my bad time. Originally I had hoped to "freemiere" The Romantic tonight, putting it out on the internet to stream & download. Some of you might be coming here right now to watch the film, and I'm sorry to disappoint you. The film will be released for free, I promise. Here's why it is not being released for free tonight:
1.) This past month we've had an onslaught of distributor interest in the film. While this won't prevent us from releasing it for free (we won't let it), some of the distributors have offered us a chance to stream it on websites (like hulu) for free, though the viewer will have to watch a brief commercial beforehand. The contracts are non exclusive, meaning I can put it anywhere else I'd like, and I can earn some cash from add revenue.
I'm chewing over some of these offers right now, and am waiting to hear back from a few more people. The biggest thing I need to 'get over' to make this hulu-esque thing real in some shape or form is that I loathe commercials and think there is enough corporate brainwashing going on everywhere else I look. I don't really need to pervert something I made rather innocently and ideally with bad magic that, at it's most benign, is counting on you to have a slippery enough grasp on reality that you'll fork over your resources for some dumb consumer brick a brak that won't patch that weird hole inside of you and could possibly put you in debt when meanwhile, in a better kingdom, you could be redistributing your resources amongst your neighbors and friends and families and citizens of the world in order to, perhaps, even out the totally fucked up playing field that our economy has found itself dependent upon to survive.
Ahem.
Anyway, I'm weighing and measuring that decision currently.
2.) I haven't had enough time to properly get the word out for the freemiere, nor have I had time to prep the website. I really don't want to half ass this, so I decided to wait a little bit. Most of my spare time has been working on this short film:
...of Reynard & Emmeline from Michael P. Heneghan on Vimeo.
I wrote a blog about the making of it at my other film's website, which you can check out here: http://burpschristmas.blogspot.com/
It will be out by Thanksgiving. I promise!
So, two weeks ago the film was screened at the Franklin Institute as part of the First Glance Film Festival, Philadelphia. It showed before a pretty modest audience, most of whom were my gracious friends and family who came out to support me. Much love to Dan @ Geekadelphia, however, who wrote this about the film, and thanks to Film Threat, who wrote an overall positive review of the film, which you can read here.
Next weekend I'll be at The Greater Reading Film Festival . The Romantic is screening Saturday, Nov. 6th at 3pm and Tuesday, Nov. 9th at 5pm. I'll be there on Saturday. Check out their website for more info.
So that's it for now. Any questions? Email me at michael@michaelpheneghan.com
peace my friends,
MPH
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