A Swarm Of Angels
Produced and directed by Matt Hanson
A Swarm of Angels is an open source film project, whose aim is to make the world’s first Internet-funded, crewed and distributed feature film. The collaborative project aims to attract 50,000 individual subscribers (the "Swarm of Angels"), each contributing US$ 40 - 50 to the production. This feature film and associated original media project embraces the Creative Commons notion of flexible copyright licencing, to permit people to freely download, share, and remix the original media made for the project.
A Swarm of Angels is the brainchild of film producer and author Matt Hanson, founder of the onedotzero digital film festival. He has labelled the process Cinema 2.0. It would be the first time for a project of this scale to be funded, produced and distributed in this way. Advisors to A Swarm of Angels include science fiction author and copyright activist Cory Doctorow, graphic novelist Warren Ellis, pioneer digital film producer Tommy Pallotta, and musical mashup artist Eric Kleptone of The Kleptones.
Following is a preview of the film, and an interview with producer Matt Hanson.
Worlds Will Shatter - The Unfold, Trailer (2 minutes)
Visionary Matt Hanson - A Swarm of Angles Case Study (15 minutes)
