iCommons 07: Interview with the Starwreck guys

June 16th, 2007

New Podcast from the icommons summit. I’m switching to English, since all interviews are in this language. This morning, I met Samuli Torssonen and Stephen Lee from Starwreck Studios. Samuli was one of the initiators - and is starring as the emperor - in the movie “Starwreck - In the Pirkinning”. Samuli explains how he and his fellows realized the movie and how they managed to make Universal distribute the DVD although everybody can download the work for free. (Yes, it makes perfect sense! Just listen to the interview!)

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Nice guys, they claim to have made the most successful finish film ever. Samuli says he was the only one who could play the emperor because he managed to keep the same haircut for 7 years… There will be pictures of him, I took some, but since I managed to leave the camera-usb-cable at the pension, everyone interested in his haircut has to wait until tomorrow.

Here it is.

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Here is the mp3, ogg (18 minutes). (What is ogg? A free standard, see Wikipedia.)
Their next film project is iron sky. Story: In 1945, the Nazis went to the moon, but are planning to come back in 2018. I think that sounds promising!

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Note: I’ll try to transcribe the essentials of the interview, but this will take time.

Entry Filed under: Netzkultur, film, icommons summit 2007

3 Comments Add your own

  • 1. Commonspage.net » i&hellip  |  June 25th, 2007 at 9:16 pm

    […] Als Schmanckerl: Der Film “Starwreck - In the Pirkinning” steht unter einer freien creative commons-Lizenz, seine Macher haben ihn eigenhändig in p2p-Netze eingespeist. (Hintergründe hier.) Lustigerweise haben chinesische und russische Profi-Piraten den Film als DVD rausgebracht. Hier die Beweisfotos: […]

  • 2. blog.starwreck.com »&hellip  |  July 18th, 2007 at 10:37 am

    […] Interview with Star Wreck guys […]

  • 3. Der erfolgreichste Film F&hellip  |  January 11th, 2008 at 5:09 pm

    […] Das hielt jedoch chinesische und russische Profi-Kopierer nicht davon ab, den Film auf DVD zu pressen und zu verticken — worauf die Filmmacher ganz stolz sind: vgl. »Gepiratetetete (?) freie Filme« und das Interview mit den Star-Wreck-Leuten (engl.). Samuli Torssonen, der Maintainer des ganzen Projekts, hat auch die Hauptrolle des Captain Pirk gespielt: Er musste das übernehmen, weil er der einzige war, der über die sieben Jahre der Produktion den gleichen Haarschnitt hatte;-) […]

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