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Filmmakers launch ‘buy a frame’ initiative

Julian Harvey and Enzo Tedeschi have launched the ‘135K project’ to raise funds for their film The Tunnel, which is set to be released online, worldwide, for free.

The Tunnel is going to be the first time that we can tell that a movie has raised funds in this way, and then released the finished product back onto the Internet for free,” they said.

The website invites people to buy one frame of film – 1 frame=$1, 135,000 frames=90 minutes of The Tunnel; it has raised $1,000 on its first day.

“We believe that if we stop fighting  the peer to peer networks, they could become the biggest revolution we have ever seen in the way we share entertainment and information,” the filmmakers said.

“We figured that movie posters and collectable frames from movies are being sold every day, so what if we could raise the money to make The Tunnel by selling every individual frame of it? We would be able to make a movie unencumbered by a studio’s need for box office.”

Harvey and Tedeschi have partnered with the Andrew Denton/Anita Jacoby production company Zapruder’s other films, Peter Thompson and Ahmed Salama and Valeria Petrenko from marketing specialists DLSHS.

The film will be directed by Carlo Ledesma.

In Cloverfield or REC ‘real footage’ style, The Tunnel is set in the rail tunnels beneath Sydney and is about a team of investigative journalists who venture underground to discover why their state government’s proposal to use water from the disused passageways has vanished.

The website includes a report of frames sold, which stands at 5113 (of 135,000) as of June 22:

http://www.thetunnelmovie.net/frametally.php

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