Premiere: Netherlands Film Festival
on June 23rd, 2010, by Ton
Great news! We will have an official film premiere at a renowned festival this time! Today we’ve received confirmation from the Netherlands Film Festival that they’ve accepted Sintel in competition and as a premiere event! The NFF is the biggest film event in the Netherlands, with all our movie stars and crews visiting, and with daily TV coverage.
The festival opens 22nd september, premiere date will be known end of July.
Our planning will roughly remain the same though, to be ready mid july (yes, in three weeks!). However, two people will stay longer to help getting the best finals rendered in August, do color/contrast correction and ensure the 35mm copy is being made. In the August/September period the DVD authoring will also begin, and the 4k rendering could start even. Around the official premiere the DVDs should go to print, and we intend to put the film online right after the festival as well.
Since most of the crew will fly back home around the 20th of July, we thought it would be great fun to organize a goodbye party for the Durian team, and a ‘finals screening’ for everyone who’s helped us out in the past 10 months. Also our loyal (dvd) sponsors are welcome to attend this event! Here’s the where and how:
Durian Finals Party
Sunday, July 18th, 20:30h
Studio K Cinema
Timorplein 62, Amsterdam
There are limited seats and we’ll work with a guest list. To get on the guest list is easy, just email me (ton at blender org) your Durian DVD order number, and I’ll return your guest list number! Seems fair eh? 🙂
Also note that we will show an unfinished film with an unfinished soundtrack. Only in September we’ll be ready for sure!
-Ton-
June 23rd, 2010 at 5:41 pm
Very cool! Keep up the great work! I’m looking forward to its release!
June 23rd, 2010 at 5:58 pm
wow, its that close already… cant wait 😀
June 23rd, 2010 at 6:11 pm
yippy so movie will be release to the world on the 22nd Sept 2010
btw third post.
cmon england
June 23rd, 2010 at 6:14 pm
Enhorabuena!!!!
=:-)
June 23rd, 2010 at 6:15 pm
I really hope to be there in Utrecht for the premiere 😀 really want to see it on a big screen! But please place a Bluray pre-order :< I don't want to buy both the DVD and the Bluray. The BBB Bluray had the same content as the dvd hadn't it?
June 23rd, 2010 at 6:20 pm
So many dates! Awesome! 😀
Congratulations on getting accepted for the NFF premiere.
So excited, and yet so disappointed to not be able to attend the finals screening! 🙁 Oh well, I should know better than to watch unfinalized work, anyway.
June 23rd, 2010 at 6:31 pm
The Blu-ray is being produced independently, most likely not having the studio database or all the other extras (tutorials, avi files, weeklies, tests, and so on). We do resell these blu-rays, but don’t make real profits on it. When we get these is unknown.
The DVD is an in-house product, and you can see it as the official reward for a donation.
June 23rd, 2010 at 6:45 pm
God, I can’t wait fot the realease! Wish I could visit the Netherland just so I could be at the premiere.
June 23rd, 2010 at 7:18 pm
WOOOWWWW, that’s good news! 😀
I really like to attend the July 18th screening, but I haven’t pre-ordered the DVD simply cause I really like to pre-order the Blu-ray. (it doesn’t matter I get it months later, I just want to pre-order to support you)
So is their any solution to fulfill this little wish, Ton?
June 23rd, 2010 at 7:25 pm
J.: Perhaps you could preorder the DVD rather than wait for the bluray. They’re already going to include 1080p versions either as extra files on the DVD set or definitely online. That might work or not with you current home theater setup, but you can definitely get at least bluray quality versions regardless, maybe even 2k/4k versions.
Ton: Can we hope for the 2k/4k versions to be publicly available too? 🙂
June 23rd, 2010 at 7:33 pm
Excellent news. Very curious to see how this plays out. You’re doing great work here, Ton and Durian team.
June 23rd, 2010 at 7:40 pm
well I guess I’l be pre-ordering the DVD soon then 🙂 too bad the bluray doesnt have all the extras but the DVD has a 1080p version anyways 🙂
June 23rd, 2010 at 7:47 pm
@David Jordan:
I just did, creating a HD version myself that works on my BD player is quite easy.
And btw, seing the film a month earlier on a ”private” screening is very exciting, isn’t it?
June 23rd, 2010 at 8:46 pm
I hope the people who will attend the private screening don’t give away any spoilers!
June 23rd, 2010 at 8:50 pm
Maybe do we have to sign an NDA? 😉
June 23rd, 2010 at 9:00 pm
Wowzers! This is awesome! I wonder if longer films will ever be produced, like say twenty to forty minutes or does Ton have to keep them down to something that can be finished in under a year?
June 23rd, 2010 at 10:37 pm
wow! that sounds awesome i cant wait for it! i wish you the best luck ^.^
June 23rd, 2010 at 10:38 pm
Great news and when is the next blender release – will that be in the DVD too?
and for the crew big thanks and happy journey.
June 23rd, 2010 at 10:41 pm
That’s great news 😀
Film festivals are a great way to promote movies 🙂
June 24th, 2010 at 12:34 am
I just ordered the DVD-box.
Can’t be there though. I’m never available on Sundays.
June 24th, 2010 at 12:55 am
Congratulations, that’s great news
June 24th, 2010 at 1:42 am
Goods News!!… Yea, durian Team deserve a big party, and for sure a video for us, days gonna fly, July will come pretty fast.
Cheers.
Nick
June 24th, 2010 at 1:54 am
ohhh. wish I could be there. I actually have a flight that arrives on the 21st. so not only do I miss the premier but everyone will have left also 🙁
June 24th, 2010 at 2:59 am
Not so sad, Ton and 2 others are still present, then. 😉
I’ll be attending the premiere and maybe I take some photographs, maybe… (I always end up in quarrel with that damn cheap ALDI camera! 🙁 )
Tech-question:
How will you play the workprint in Studio K?
June 24th, 2010 at 10:01 am
Each visitor to the party is supposed to act like a guest here in the Blender Institute. From guests we expect to behave civilized, not posting spoilers or bootlegs!
We will show the film playing from a computer using Studio K’s HD projector. No ‘work prints’.
The blu-ray we sell in our store with only a minimal margin, to support our users. It’s not a product to support Durian, the price of a blu-ray would be like 55 euro then.
June 24th, 2010 at 11:06 am
So no sintel at Siggraph?
June 24th, 2010 at 1:27 pm
Does this mean the creators do not get to see the premiere?
June 24th, 2010 at 2:03 pm
Btw for everyone who thinks the whole story gets revealed July 19th on the internet, making photographs does NOT mean taking photos off the screen, just of the crowd and the whole happy Blender family.
@Ton: I actually mean ”digital workprint”, just a kind of slang, whether digital or not. 😉
June 24th, 2010 at 4:33 pm
Wow, awesome, gonna try to get free from work for the finals screening, looking forward to it already! Got to dig up my order number I guess
Oh and ofcourse big “gefeliciflapstaart” (congraturlations) to the team!
June 24th, 2010 at 6:33 pm
Gustav: We have two BoF meetings at Siggraph, on which I will show some Sintal shots and making-of goodies.
Joeri: We’ll fly in as many team members as possible for the premiere. Depends budget of course, and depends on who would rather fly in for the Blender Conference, just a month later.
June 24th, 2010 at 7:19 pm
good luck guys.
June 24th, 2010 at 11:35 pm
@Ton:
Will the film be played by the Cinemanet player in Studio/K, or do you use an own/other computer?
June 25th, 2010 at 9:13 am
3 weeks. That’s a good news for us! This movie will be a shining light for Blender
June 25th, 2010 at 11:38 am
Cool.
I’d rather go to the real premiere and see and hear the finished thing.
I know I had a clouded view on the ED premiere because I knew to much about it. But I’d also like to meet the makers, so I’m still in doubt when to go.
…
I think I’ll go to the NFF and meet as many fab people as possible at the bconf.
There is also 2500,= to win at the NOFF ( online FF submit deadline 10 Aug. ) – That flies in another 2 🙂
June 25th, 2010 at 3:10 pm
J: we use our own computer to playback.
June 25th, 2010 at 5:13 pm
WHY DO I HAVE TO LIVE IN CALIFORNIA(ok distance wise its not as bad as hawaii)BUT STILL!!!
Hey how long is the film cus i might just wait for it on youtube
Also the sneakpeek of(?)
Sintel The Game: Adventure of the Bravest(?)
You are in a RPG/Sandbox game
You must brave the gaurds, level up, and then finally destroy(?!!!!)THE BIG BUCK BUNNY xD
OK serously thats ALMOST what the game should be like(only its the castle instead of BBB) 🙂
Well happy Blending
(oh if you Ton respond Thank you so much!!like im getting a responce from the MAN?!!!!WHOOHOO AWESOME)Well happy Blending again
June 25th, 2010 at 6:11 pm
Well, invite Ton to come to your local cinema with a 35mm copy under is arm, who knows… 😉
June 25th, 2010 at 8:18 pm
Ton plaese come to mylocal cinema with a 35mm copy under your arm
😉
June 28th, 2010 at 9:56 am
good luck and enjoy the party, you people deserve it, great work with sintel and with blender 2.5x.
im in Argentina its a little bit far for going, but for the next project ill be sending my portfolio 😛
good luck!
June 28th, 2010 at 10:34 am
Congratulations!
July 22nd, 2010 at 9:25 am
Awesome. I hope the making-of will be shown as well.
August 10th, 2010 at 2:35 am
Please let me know which day Sintel is queued up for at the Netherlands Film Festival so I can confirm my flight from Chicago ASAP to see it in its final form.
I signed up on the NFF site; however, I was not yet able to find anything there as to specific times etc…
Have a happy day!!! I know I will!!!