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I posted the trailer for Iron Sky a while back but am giving it some more bump following a great post by Johnny & Angus yesterday with some great deets on how the film got started & how it is being financed through 'crowdfunding' - a strategy worth watching:
"When we spoke to Finnish director Timo Vuorensola about where the idea came from – that 1% of inspiration – we were a little surprised (we really shouldn’t have been):
“The idea was born in a sauna, as most great ideas from Finland are. We were there, talking about our movie that was currently in production [Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning], and came to the question of what to do after that. Jarmo Puskala, one of the scriptwriters, suggested an idea that had been brewing in his head for quite some time already – it was a wicked story about Nazis from the Moon. The idea sounded crazy enough for us to be interested on it, but also quite massive. So we didn't think about that too much until later after [Star Wreck] was finished, and the question of "what's next" popped up again. ”
As Producer Janos Honkonen pointed out to us: “Whereas the previous movie was made with a shoelace budget, Iron Sky actually does have some money behind it – to be exact, the budget is a bit over 5.5million Euros, which comes from foundations, investors and also from the fans: crowdfunding is something we are very interested in.”
Crowdfunding. What a lovely word, and an interesting concept. Off the back of Star Wreck, the team set up an independent film community called Wreckamovie – a “web platform designed to harness the power of passionate Internet communities for creating short films, documentaries, music videos, Internet flicks, full length features, mobile films and more”.
source: Johnny & Angus - http://bit.ly/c0INQW
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