Elephants Dream Showing in Phoenix, Arizona

Published by Bart on April 18th, 2006 in Community, Orange, Usermeetings

Theater The Elephants Dream DVDs will hopefully be shipped during the next few weeks, and the excitement in the Blender community about this event is mounting. This leads to interesting new activities: I received an email from Paul Venezio who is planning to rent a small theatre to show the movie and have a Blender usermeeting.

Paul wrote:

Coming Soon to a venue near you, the first open source animated film "Elephants Dream"!

Sounds exciting doesn't it? I can't wait to see it in theatres! Oh wait, there's no distribution network for the movie other than festivals, or is there? All of us that purchased the DVD, we are a distribution network! We can rent venues to show the DVD! We can place an ad for the premier! We can meet other Blenderheads and possibly create a few!

I've looked into this a little and I can rent, for an hour, a mini-theatre that will show the DVD on a large projection screen with surround sound during a week day for $200 US here in Phoenix, Arizona. I'll post the who, what, where and when soon. If your venue is more expensive, a few of you could join forces or charge admission, whatever it takes.

I challenge the rest of you who supported the movie by purchasing the DVD to go the next step and have your own premiere! Let's see how much world wide buzz we can create over this truly historic cinematic creation.

I love this initiative! If you are going to organise a similar event, please let us know and we'll spread the word.

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1 AniCator Apr 18th, 2006 at 6:25 am

Olifantje in het…….de woestijngebieden???
Arizona was in desert area's right(sorry for the one's who live there)
Well gtg to school(and need to work at my geography for wednesday ;) )!
2 Henrymop Apr 18th, 2006 at 7:05 am

Sounds excellent. I wonder how many people would be interested in this?
3 Kyle Dell'Aquila Apr 18th, 2006 at 7:13 am

ooh! cool! Im intrested, If I had the time and money to fly over to arizona…
I live in California, and this sounds preity cool! One step closer to get to my doorstep!
4 Zsolt Apr 18th, 2006 at 9:01 am

That's a very good idea! Would love to see it ina a real theatre.
Some "art" theaters where I live also do DVD showings, maybe I'll look into it.
5 joeri Apr 18th, 2006 at 10:03 am

Might be worth while to checkout if you can display the HD version.
Or even the 1024 version is better than the 24fps -> NTSC converted dvd-video one.
6 BeBraw Apr 18th, 2006 at 11:45 am

Is there an official movie poster available?
7 Dingo_aus Apr 18th, 2006 at 12:15 pm

If anyone is interested in Brisbane Australia I'm happy to make inquiries with the likes of Dendy (http://www.dendy.com.au/)
8 Joe Apr 18th, 2006 at 2:36 pm

Is it legal to charge admission to the movie? I am not completely clear on the license agreements here. What if I made money by setting this type of event up in my town and charging admission? Would that be legal?
9 bart Apr 18th, 2006 at 2:41 pm

@Joe: I just checked with Ton and he told me that would be ok.
10 Joe Apr 18th, 2006 at 4:34 pm

Very nice. I do have other legal questions about Orange. I am considering using it for a number of commercial ventures and was hoping they would show us the license agreement. I have never seen the entire agreement. If anyone has a link, I would love to read through the doc. Or if they have not created the agreement, they should asap.
11 Tallguy Apr 18th, 2006 at 4:52 pm

Yowza! Hometown! I'll have to keep an eye out for this in our lovely valley of the sun.
12 Toonami_Fan Apr 18th, 2006 at 5:31 pm

Hey! Live in Tempe! I am attending computer animation school right now! What theatre? I want to go, how do I contact Paul?!
13 Jim Apr 18th, 2006 at 5:56 pm

Anyone interested in doing this in Denver CO? Where do you start looking for such a venue?
14 Paul Apr 18th, 2006 at 7:18 pm

Toonami_Fan, Tallguy, etc. the first showing I plan on doing will be at Farrelli's in Scottsdale. I think I might be able to do a couple more, not sure yet. I have to talk to a friend of mine that has a home theatre company once I get back to Phoenix (working in CA right now). If he gives a green light, we can do a 'movie in the park' type thing in multiple places in the metro area. Stay tuned.
15 rich Apr 18th, 2006 at 8:53 pm

This whole project has really got me thinking about opening an independant movie and coffee house in my hometown…
16 Bmud Apr 18th, 2006 at 8:57 pm

I'm interested in setting up a premier in both Raleigh, NC USA & Asheville, NC USA soon after the DVD is released. There are good number of bars and small indy theaters that will show it for free (fold-out chairs for example) or for a nominal fee (more of a theater setting)

I'm already planning a car Drive-In film festival all the way in October some day close to Halloween, but that's a long ways away. Anyhow, I've already got Elephant's Dream on the list of films to be shown. (I guess feel free to ask about that if you've got something to show off)

Is anyone in NC that would like to help organize an even bigger premier? I called the coordinator at the Carolina Theater in Durham — a very old, renovated, and large fancy theater used now for indipendent films. I didn't get a response and that was a couple months ago. I think a copy of the DVD sent to them will be a lot more convincing, and if they take it, I think I can expect some good results — at the very least showing as part of a film festival which they do often.

Elephant's Dream should be sent to The Animation Show too compiled by Don Hertzfeldt and Mike Judge. It's perfectly eligable. http://animationshow.com/contact.html (I'll post this in their blog too)
17 DwarvenFury Apr 18th, 2006 at 10:03 pm

For information on the "legal" aspects of showing Elephants Dream, see this post on the Orange blog: http://orange.blender.org/blog/creative-commons-license-2

Info for a premiere with an entrance fee:

"You can organize a screening in a cinema, and charge an entrance fee for it. Just include the movie credits in the screening." - Ton
18 Jacques Richer Apr 18th, 2006 at 10:53 pm

I am also looking for info on the Phoenix, AZ showing. What is the proposed date, and the admit price?
19 harkyman Apr 19th, 2006 at 3:21 am

I'm trying to organize a screening with the Art Institute and Carnegie Mellon U's animation department here in Pittsburgh.
20 Paul Apr 19th, 2006 at 4:18 am

I didn't post any dates yet, because, well, I don't have the DVD yet so I can't really setup anything. The availability of Farrelli's (hope I spelled it right)is pretty well open during the time frames I can afford. As soon as I get my greedy little mitts on the DVD, I'll work out a schedule. It doesn't help that my day job is going through a major, global rollout during the same time frame. Oh well, patienced is a virtue.
21 Andrew Apr 19th, 2006 at 8:59 am

I'm trying to set up a showing in my home town, Houston, TX, at my university's theater (http://ricecinema.rice.edu/). I've already talked to the director, who would love to show the movie, though it'd only be NTSC projection (no HD projector…though if there were film prints somewhere we could do that…). Is anyone interested in helping me/attending? (It might not be for awhile, depending on when the DVDs come out/school ends…)
22 gary Apr 19th, 2006 at 9:37 pm

harkyman,

i'm also in pittsburgh and would love to come to your screening.
23 Tynach Apr 20th, 2006 at 12:24 am

Wow, that's close! I'm in Mesa, which is right next door! I'm almost definitly going!
24 Skottish Apr 20th, 2006 at 2:21 am

You may want try Mesa Community College. They have a small theater on campus (at least they did last time I was there). Who knows, maybe they'll show it for free?
25 Paul Apr 20th, 2006 at 1:54 pm

Skottish, and anyone else near the colleges in Phoenix Metro area: Help me out and find out if they will let us show the movie there. Send me the contact information for the person in charge and I'll do the rest. Send any information to paulvenezio@msn.com . I would appreciate the help. Again, still waiting for the DVD before I set up anything concrete. Hopefully we'll be seeing it soon.
26 Skottish Apr 20th, 2006 at 10:55 pm

Hey Paul, I think I'll be in the area of MCC tomorrow. I'll swing by their art/movie department and see if they'll hook us up. I've been in the MCC theater before (got to watch movies for credit!) and it's pretty nice.
27 Licho Apr 21st, 2006 at 12:15 am

Here in Argentina there's an International Independent Films Festival going on… Now it is too late, but maybe a show (even in film) can be arranged fon next year… the website is http://www.bafici.gov.ar
I'll talk to some blenderheads and see what we can do…
28 fawzikach Apr 21st, 2006 at 3:23 pm

hy you may know there is an international animated film festival that will take place on june 2006 in France(festival d'Annecy) . this festival gathers thousands of art studends and professionals from all over the countries.
During this festival,animated movies are shown indors, but there is also a giant screen in front of the Lac d'Annecy, on which some good annimated clasics are projected twice during the festival.
I am quite sure it is too late to propose elephants dream for the official selection, but there may be a possibility to show it on the openfield screen (it is free for the audiance above all) here is the link hope it can be helpfull, http://www.annecy.org/ . this festival is great . hope it will be possible to show blender possibilities to professional as well as to people who don't have an idiea of what can be made with it!
29 Vidrazor Apr 26th, 2006 at 9:15 pm

Hey that sounds cool. I wouldn't mind trying to do something like that in NYC. Not sure where, but first I need a disc. I assume the disc has a an HD version on it, or is that a separate order?
30 joeedh May 20th, 2006 at 2:50 pm

This sounds cool. I'm in tucson right now, and planning on attending NAU at flagstaff in two weeks. So, if something happens before then I could make it. :) But once I get to NAU I'm not going to have access to a car, so I won't have any way of getting to phoenix.

joeedh
31 bart Jun 2nd, 2006 at 4:05 pm

Hi all,

to all of you who are still seriously considering organising a showing, please check out our new article:

http://www.blendernation.com/2006/06/02/are-you-organizing-an-elephants-dream-showing/

Bart