New open source movie project aims to create a full community of users who collaborate in the creation and execution of a short science-fiction film titled Jathia's Wager. An experiment in collaborative filmmaking, the initial script is about a young man living in an isolated community of humans, who must make a life changing decision about his future and his species.The script was written as an experiment by Solomon Rothman, a filmmaker who's already released one full movie online for f...

The 3D animated short ‘Elephants Dream’ will today be released as a free and public download. This is the final stage of a successfully completed Open Movie project which has been community-financed, using only Open Source tools, and opening up the movie itself as well as the entire studio database for everyone to re-use and learn from. The movie and production files are licensed as “Creative Commons Attribution 2.5″, which only requires a proper crediting for public screening, re-us...

The Cannes Market, Filmfestivals.com, MM2 Editions, Moving Pictures presentExplore the future of Cinema with the experts:Keynotes: introduction to the movie world of tomorrow by:A leading digital artist, Laurence GartelThe well known author of Darknet, Hollywood’s war against the digital generation, JD Lasica,Frank Otto, director of the first open source Rock Opera MovieA large panel to discuss the multiple aspects of the future of the film industry. Among the panellists:The producer of the on...