Independant Film Maker Thanks P2P
Jerome Bixby, an independant film maker, who has just released his latest sci-fi feature, "The Man From Earth", is exactly the person who somoene would expect to be deadset against P2P. However, he has found himself thanking it after his film was leaked onto torrents and the like almost a week before it's DVD release.
Why? Simple. The immense popularity increase that free version has brought. Visits to the films official site increased a whopping 3,000% in the week before it was released, with a large chunk of that said to be due to the release on P2P. The IMDb ranking has also shot up, and the film is now rated as the 14th best sci-fi film ever made; impressive, considering it is an independant production.
Check out the film here
Hey… Eric D. Wilkinson here! If you are planning on downloading our movie, please read this message…
We, the filmmakers behind “Jerome Bixby’s The Man From Earth” understand that this is a film you want to see. And we especially understand that if you live outside the United States, you’ve had absolutely no way of knowing when this film might be coming to your local cinema, video store, or TV… if ever! Indeed, all international rights to the movie are still available.
And as a result you may have downloaded (or are about to download) the film from this or from one of the many torrent sites. Chances are, you paid nothing to do so. But please understand that we are just some independent filmmakers who put everything we had into our little movie, and you really hurt us directly when you downloaded the movie illegally.
Judging from the postings at IMDB.com, we see that the vast majority of you quite like the film; many of you even love the film and have watched it repeatedly.
We made this movie with a great deal of love, sacrifice and effort on a low budget. But as low as the budget was, it was still a LOT of money to us, as well as to the people who trusted us with their investment to go ahead and make such an unusual, even controversial film.
So we are making an unusual request… asking you to return the love, if you will:
Please visit http://www.manfromearth.com, and make some sort of donation in exchange for the enjoyment our movie brought you. It could be fifty cents, it could be fifty dollars. Perhaps you feel the average weekly video store rental is a fair amount. Whatever it is, it might be small to you, but if every single person who downloaded the movie — heck, if only the people who LIKED the movie — donated a few dollars, would certainly help get us to breakeven. Just go to http://www.manfromearth.com and click on “donate” (you don’t even need to have an account). The address to use is ewilkinson100@comcast.net.
The money you donate will go DIRECTLY towards everone who worked on and invested in our dream. And who knows… if we ever do break even on “Jerome Bixby’s The Man From Earth”, maybe we can go make another intelligent, thought-provoking film.
Thank you very, very much for your consideration.
Sincerely,
Eric D. Wilkinson – Producer
Richard Schenkman – Producer / Director