The Passenger DVD Now $14.95

That's the same amount of plastic for $5 less!  Postage is still $6 though ($3 within Australia), can't do much about that.  Purchase instructions are here.

Passenger Gear List & Budget Breakdown

Added some more information to the increasingly unuseless Useless Information section.

Sale Now On

Finally. Get The Passenger here for half price until the 12th of May 2011 or until sold out. Huzzah.

1 Million Views Reached!

Get The Passenger DVD for $9.95 until the 11th of May 2011. Huzzah!

...or at least that's what I would have said, if it wasn't for Chaos.com having some issues updating the price (although the PAL version is currently showing as $9.99, which is close), and since it's the weekend nothing much can happen until businesses reopen on Monday anyway I guess. So let's say the sale starts Monday 11th.

[Edit: I'm told this will be fixed overnight, which makes it Tuesday here :/... so I'm extending it to the 12th of May.]

1 Million Views Sale

The Passenger is approaching a million YouTube views (insert maniacle Dr Evil laugh here), so to celebrate I thought I'd make the DVD half price ($9.95) for, let's say, a month (or until I run out of stock). But wait - there's still 100,000 to go before we reach the magical number, so the more the link gets around the faster we'll get to 1,000,000 (more maniacle chortling).

Made In Melbourne Update

I've just been informed that the Made In Melbourne Festival at Fed Square has been moved from the outdoor stage at 8pm into BMW Edge at 9pm - apologies for any inconvenience.

Made In Melbourne

If you're wandering around in the city feeling a bit film festivally on December 1st, head over to the Federation Square main stage for the Made In Melbourne Film Festival, where The Passenger will be showing sometime after 8pm (on the big TV screen I presume). It's not-for-profit, with donations going to SecondBite.

My Art History will resume shortly.

Deconstruction Clips

A couple of snippets from the 16 minute Deconstruction on The Passenger DVD.

 

DVD NOW AVAILABLE

The ridiculously long-awaited Passenger DVD - which is now reputed for being so long-awaited that people have begun to forget that they were even waiting for it - has, in an unprecedented turn of events, actually become available!

So, with all that waiting out of the way, there's nothing left to do now other than to buy it I suppose (and if you want it for Christmas, I suggest you hurry).

Or if buying stuff isn't your thing, you could defile your senses with the quality deprived version that I uploaded to YouTube during a moment of self sabotaging madness, before I come to my senses and decide to take it down again.

The DVD and the Ongoing Indeterminate Nature of its Release Date

Artwork proofs are approved, masters are off to the chocolate factory for pressing... In the event that nothing goes horribly wrong it should be ready in: a couple of weeks (give or take six years).

Getting There

Classification - check. Barcodes - check. Distribution stuff - check. Blog entry to give the impression that the DVD has progressed further over the past couple of months than it actually has - check. Now all that's left to do before final tests and manufacture is to wait for a trademark usage approval, and I'm waiting as fast as I can for that...

DVD Mini Update

The bad: just lost a month dealing with a slight domestic situation (another relocation).

The good: the DVD is first priority again, and I think I've finalised the distribution plan (which involves some more waiting for licensing and classification procedures before I can start replicating - but that's technically another bad... forget I mentioned it).

DVD Update

And about time too, I hear you say.

The master is finished (pending some final testing), so all that remains is to sort out the fiddly legal and logistical stuff so I can get it pressed into thousands of high tech coffee coasters and Christmas tree ornaments for the masses.

I can only guess how long this will take (which I'm not going to and you can't make me) but in the mean time here's a quick feature list to ponder over:

• 16 minute making-of thingy (which was in itself several months in the making, and largely responsible for my... erm... delay)
• Complete animatics
• Isolated soundtracks
• Other stuff
• And as an added bonus: the film itself! 

Incidentally, the pic above is a mockup - the final may or may not differ in appearance.

Reel Shorts

The Passenger still seems to have some festival life in it, so in the absence of anything non-film-festivally to post about, I'll continue my current trend of posting only about film festivally things.

In what could quite possibly be its last theatrical outing (don't quote me on that), it'll be screening at The Reel Shorts Film Festival in Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada on Wednesday, April 22 at 12:20pm, and then again on Saturday, April 25 at 7:00pm.

Siggraph Asia 2008

The Passenger is showing at the new Asian incarnation of Siggraph this year, thereby achieving one of its original goals (well, sort of). It's in Singapore on the 11th of December, and you need a conference pass to see it by the looks of it (expensive!). Took me a while to find the details for this one, so there's not much time left.

Sydney

Just a quick update on the Australian International Animation Festival, which is moving on to Sydney. The Passenger is included in the Australian Panorama on the 18th of October. Details here.

London Animation Festival

The Passenger is heading over to London for the London International Animation Festival, which is in ...London. It's scheduled for the International Competition Session 2, on Thursday 4th September at 7pm. If anyone catches the award announcements, feel free to let me know if I won anything.

Apparently I Won An Award

According to eyewitness accounts, The Passenger won Best Australian Film at the Melbourne Animation Festival last week. Thanks to the audience members who tipped me off! Somebody must have forgotten to tell me. I wonder if that's what happened with the Oscars...

Australian Animation Festival

Almost forgot about this one! The Passenger is touring the country as part of the Australian International Animation Festival, which kicked off in Wagga Wagga last month. Next stop: Bendigo! Keep an eye on the AIAF site to see if the "Big Bus" or "Mini Bus" program is making a "pit stop" in your neighbourhood. How thematically appropriate.

Another MIAF Screening

Missed one! Teen Program 2 - Friday 20 June, 4:00pm acmi cinema 1. Keep your eyes peeled, there might be more.