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The Tunnel goes live

Today’s the day the world finds out if The Tunnel is a clever fundraising/distribution idea, or a clever fundraising/distribution idea with an accomplished film attached to it. Oscar winning producer, Ted Hope (21 Grams, Adventureland) thinks the latter.

The film, written and produced by Enzo Tedeschi and Julian Harvey and directed by Carlo Ledesma, had its world premiere at Popcorn Taxi last night, followed by Q&A with the afformentioned creators as well as executive producer Andrew Denton.

The world premiere was hotly followed by an airing on Showtime Premiere last night (10.30pm), while going live to download for free on BitTorrent. It is released today on DVD by Transmission Films (with short films as extras).

Ted Hope has got behind the film by inviting ScreenLaunch’s Ross Howden (The Tunnel Cannes film representative) to write a guest post on his blog on Indiewire, answering the question, ‘How do you sell a film that’s being given away?’

The film also made page 4 of Cannes Market News.

Of course, if you’ve already downloaded the film for free and you liked it, let the good karma roll and buy some The Tunnel frames.

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