Kratkofil

The Passenger rarely makes film festival outings. Why? Well generally I've found the hassle and expense to outweigh the gain, so therefore I decided to limit its screenings to only those festivals that can take care of the burden for me.

The Kratkofil International Short Film Festival in Bosnia and Herzegovina is one such festival, and consequently they will be screening the film in Banja Luka around the 7th-10th of June. Keep an eye on their site for the screening schedule. In an effort to liven the place up a bit, I'm also going to try inserting pictures into my posts from now on, and thus I present to you the Kratkofil logo/mascot/thing!

Hands up who wants a Passenger DVD

Now don't get excited, I'm not handing them out. I don't even have any made yet - and that's where you come in. If you're interested in buying such a thing, you might like to vote in the little poll thingy on the right so I can get a vague idea of numbers.

The "I can play either" option is supposed to simplify things in the event that I can only afford to make one format. So check that if you can play both PAL and NTSC.

Thanks for participating!

Surprise!

Welcome to the murky greenish grey of WEBSITE MK II. The old one wasn't much fun to maintain and I needed a front end that would allow for expansion into other less "Passengery" things. Consequently it's got more buttony thingamabobs, searchy whatchamacallits, RSS dooverlackies and other high tech ...stuff.

Don't be alarmed though, The Passenger is still high priority and the original pages are still mostly intact and viewable by clicking on the image above. They took me ages to do (believe it or not) and I'm not about to go dragging all my good work into the recycle bin. Besides, I don't know how to do those spooky glowy buttons and things in here.

The site is somewhat empty (again) for now, so consider this a replacement for what was previously known as "Newsy Bloggy Thing" until I've come up with some material to populate its pages.

Interviews

Feel like you're not getting enough reading satisfaction here? Then head on over to Reader's Voice where I yabber on about The Passenger, as well as some books I've read.

Still haven't had enough? Then continue on to Animwatch for more waffling by me. Too blind / uneducated / dyslexic / lazy to read? Then listen to it being read FOR you on the Animwatch podcast (that's not me doing the reading by the way, it's some other bloke).

If you still want more, there are a couple of (rather positive) reviews out there, but they're a tad too spoilerific for me to be endorsing here for now. If you really must deprive yourself of an undefiled viewing experience (assuming I ever figure out how to make it more accessibly viewable...) you'll have to go and hunt them down yourself!

Passenger In Paris

Well I seem to have somewhat inadvertently submitted the film to the "International Panorama" at the Nemo festival in Paris (it's a long story), and lo and behold it's been selected! So now, because of my "mishap", you get to see the film there for FREE! Provided you're in Paris of course. If not, now might be a good time to go and visit.

Now I don't speak a word of French, so I'm not entirely sure where or when it's on, but it appears to be "Lundi 30 avril 20h 45 - 22 h Le Cinéma des cinéastes". That's Monday April 30 20h 45 - 22 H The Cinema of the scenario writers, according to Google Translate. If you speak French better than Google then you should check the details here.

So... apprécier l'exposition, et battre fort ! ...whatever that means.

Where Can I See It?

I am frequently asked where The Passenger can be seen/bought/downloaded. Isn't it enough that I made it, now you want to SEE it as well?? The only way at present, other than to catch it at the Oscar shorts screenings, is to come and watch it in my bedroom. That may be a bit inconvenient for some, so I've come up with a better solution: I'm making another copy for the loungeroom.

In case for some reason you can't make it to my lounge room either, I've been considering one or all of the following options:

1. Paid download

2. Free download with advertising

3. DVD

4. Worldwide theatrical release.

Number 4 is unlikely. 1 and/or 2 are possible, and 3 is probable either way but will take some time to assemble (bonus materials, authoring, distribution...). So when I've sorted out the logistics of all this I'll notify the Queen and she can deliver the message to the world. Or I could just post it here somewhere.

Good News!

I didn't get an Oscar®©TM nomination! But that's not the good news. The news is that in the leadup to the Academy Awards®TM©(Pat.Pend.), and for a short time after, the nominees will be touring around 50 cinemas in the U.S. - and The Passenger is tagging along for the ride!! Check the Magnolia Pictures website for the what, where and when.

Of course for anyone living outside the U.S. this is not very useful information (and probably belongs here), but rest assured I'm working to rectify this situation...

Email Problems

I discovered today that my email address had been malfunctioning, causing mail to bounce back to the sender. It seems to have been fixed now, so please repost any messages that were sent since the start of the year. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Overhaul

Now that I'm starting to get a handle on this fiddly business of web designing, I've noticed what a diabolical mess I've made of setting up the directory structure. So, I've pulled it all apart and put it back together again.

In the process I've made all the pages a bit more uniform and finished looking, and now you can navigate to any page from any other page (except the front page) - convenient! It's almost enough to create the illustion that there's actually a lot of stuff in here.

Let me know if anything's broken.

Press Kit

Finally finished making a press kit, short and sparse as it is. More can be gleaned from the pages of this website if need be.

The Tomb

It's not Passenger related, but here's a glimpse of what I was up to a month or two ago. It's a "behind the scenes" look at a feature film pitch by Jon Dixon. I did the opening title and establishing shot for the teaser as well as some other minor effects shots.

http://www.makingthetombteaser.com/ (note: link currently unavailable)

I've just finished another job, so with any luck I'll manage to get some Passenger stuff up before the next wave hits.

So much for getting some more info up

Well, this site has fallen into disrepair rather quickly, and this time it's because I've been preoccupied with another project which is helping to keep me alive so I can continue to keep this site in a state of disrepair. I've made a start on an update, so until I have something presentable here is some useless information for your unenjoyment.

Film won, film lost

Things have been a bit dead around here, and that's because I've been in Hollywoodland where a certain film of mine was busy winning Best Animation at the LA Shorts Fest! Well I'm back now, and I'm going to try and get some more info up. Meanwhile I lost most of my trip photos, so if anyone comes across a couple of abandoned rolls of Kodak film in LA somwhere, those would be mine.

Bandwidth

Well, the high res version of the trailer has turned out to be a popular item, so of course I've pulled it. Good news is I've replaced it with a couple of off-site links that won't threaten to greet me one morning with a hefty excess bandwidth usage charge; bad news is they're slower, fiddlier and require a minute or so of waiting before the download can begin.

If anyone has a better (free) file hosting idea, please don't hesitate to contact me.