Here’s something that I hope will become a trend in filmmaking:

Huge thumbs up to this move: director Mark Achbar has made The Corporation, 2003’s biting documentary investigating the rise and ever-growing influence of the corporation on all aspects of modern society freely available via Bittorrent. The torrent file includes a high quality rip of the master copy, plus a special 40 minute interview with Joel Bakan, author of the original book upon which the film is based and writer for the documentary.

I’ll try and check this out later. I think Comcast is blocking BitTorrent ports, I’m not getting anything when I try. Encryption, anyone?

There’s also a ton of very interesting articles on how they made it. One that immediately caught my eye was their “Achbar-O-Tron”, which lets people be interviewed looking directly into the camera (but still engaged with the interviewer via a glass reflection). I’ve heard of this technique and seen it a few times - it’s a fresh change from the off-to-the-side doc standard interview angle.

Via DV Guru.

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