Premiere schedule
on September 23rd, 2010, by Ton
If you visit the premier in Utrecht, Monday 27 September, here’s the schedule:
19:15h Team arrives for original Red Carpet event at Rembrandt theatre. Screaming fans and flashing cameras welcome!
19:30h Short intro of film by me.
19:33h Sintel screening
19:48h I call the makers to the front for a round of applause
19:50h Start of main film “Happily ever after” (“Lang en gelukkig”)
21:15h Everyone welcome to join with team in the Festival Pavilion, close-by on Neude.
-Ton-
September 23rd, 2010 at 3:31 pm
What? Only two minutes if applause? 😀
September 23rd, 2010 at 4:34 pm
I would be one of those screaming fans, but I cant be there 🙁 should I jsut send an email with a video of what it would be?
September 23rd, 2010 at 4:55 pm
I would love to be there, but they don’t have open source international flights yet.
September 23rd, 2010 at 4:56 pm
I hope the the arrangers of the festival know how big a following Sintel will have and also inform the poor filmmakers who made “Lang en gelukkig” beforehand, that the Sintel will properly steal the picture. 🙂
You guys deserve that more shortfilm festivals will invite it – Or the Dutch Filminstitute will send it around – so it’ll get the big festival tour around the world. There are lots of short/animation film festivals out there…
September 23rd, 2010 at 5:47 pm
“Happily forever” wtcoph?
September 23rd, 2010 at 6:11 pm
According to IMDb the English title is: ”Happily Ever After”
That’s just how you say that in fairytales.
In Dutch we say: ”En ze leefden nog lang en gelukkig”
In English: ”And they lived happily ever after”
September 23rd, 2010 at 6:15 pm
Despite planning to go to the premiere originally I ended up going to the first screening on sunday (more of my friends were able to come that day). Hope there might be a few sintel fans there as well 🙂 I will see 😛
September 23rd, 2010 at 6:17 pm
@Ton: Are you going to do your intro talk in English or Dutch?
September 23rd, 2010 at 7:21 pm
J: thanks, I knew i had it wrong translated 🙂
And yes, Dutch intro.
September 23rd, 2010 at 7:38 pm
Wait, the movie got renamed to Happily Ever After? 😉
September 23rd, 2010 at 8:51 pm
You’ll be hearing me clapping all the way from Italy. 😀
September 23rd, 2010 at 9:35 pm
If you record it and put it on Youtube, we will, indeed! 😛
September 23rd, 2010 at 10:15 pm
Whould be nice to have a good speaker with laptop aside of the red carpet , i can stream live myself and scream like a crazy, many of the community can.
why we can’t be there with in this age of internet and hitech communications?
i can upload my scream mp3 file and you can mix with all the scream community and reproduce them there, they will be authentic and we will be there.
A computer aside the red carpet representing all we the fans that were following during since it was only a rumour!
September 23rd, 2010 at 11:41 pm
Wow, new website theme rocks!
September 24th, 2010 at 12:01 am
@Gallaecio : Thanks , I worked on it this evening to refresh it a bit.
September 24th, 2010 at 12:17 am
Pretty cool, but I see a lot of banding at the borders…
September 24th, 2010 at 5:21 am
I’d so love to be there!!. I’ve waited many time for Sintel. Greetings and best wishes from Colombia.
September 24th, 2010 at 11:09 am
@J. : Thanks for the feedback ; I removed the gradient and keep a pure black around. We try to save Ko of bandwith on the website now to permit more poeple to see the online premiere ( before the server to be down ) 😉
September 24th, 2010 at 3:16 pm
I believe you can completely avoid “sever down” at the online Premiere by providing torrents…
As has been suggested by others too.
September 24th, 2010 at 4:09 pm
@maddes: Yes we will be doing torrents =)
September 24th, 2010 at 6:17 pm
Been following this since it was just an idea! Glad to see it come together like this, and wish I could be there – looking forward to seeing the finished product for myself!
September 24th, 2010 at 7:39 pm
Its too bad I live in canada, so i cant make it down there:(
I agree with open-source flights! XD
Will there be a live broadcast from the premiere online?
September 24th, 2010 at 8:24 pm
I wish i had the money and the time off work to fly accross the pond to come see it. Congrats everyone on the project!!
September 25th, 2010 at 7:46 am
Please dont forget to record the reaction of the audience =!.-=
best of lucks!
September 25th, 2010 at 3:09 pm
2 DAYS!!!
September 25th, 2010 at 3:21 pm
Try to get some sleep. 🙂
September 25th, 2010 at 4:25 pm
Just 5 more days until the internet release! And I hope lots of fans go to the premiere. 😀
September 25th, 2010 at 8:21 pm
Hey nice new website design. Looks great!
September 25th, 2010 at 9:31 pm
I can’t wait, 5 days to internet premiere :D:D
Nice site redesign!
September 25th, 2010 at 11:51 pm
Thanks about the redesign of the website 🙂
September 26th, 2010 at 12:01 am
Day of the premiere! If I see it correctly. Anyway, goodluck!
September 26th, 2010 at 11:51 am
Can the premiere events be seen in streaming?
September 26th, 2010 at 5:49 pm
@Mirata: No, you don’t see it correctly.
The counter still says 1Day- on the day of the premiere, it will be zero. Premiere is Monday 27 september, 19:30h.
@Durian-Team: Maybe Adrenalin level is raising? I wish the very best for the Premiere. Wish i could be there, supporting you with screaming etc….
And of course, watching sintel in a premiere atmosphere will be great.
September 26th, 2010 at 7:12 pm
The counter seems to go by the computer’s time, which, in my case, is seven hours off. Good thing I can do my algebra…
September 26th, 2010 at 7:32 pm
@Loris: yeah me too 😀
September 26th, 2010 at 8:13 pm
I’m slightly envious of all of you attending the premier, unlucky for me my lottery ticket failed to come in on friday or saturday.
I’ve watched Sintel and Blender closely for the better part of the current year. Having looked at the bugs logged on the bug tracker I really dont know how you did it.
Thanks to you we have 2.5, a new internal renderer on its way, a new update to the modelling tools, inclusion of the freestyle on its way, improvements to the particle system, the sculpting system, and unlimited clay…the list goes on.
I am what is generally term a chaos artist, my level of art has never progressed further the school grade scketching, in fact my only level of competence is the ability to draw a straight line with the use of a ruler. I have the mental ability to see possibilites, the tool to allow me to realise those possibilites (blender) but an iherent lack to bridge the gap… :). Man I wish Blender was released when I was a student….. :{.
I have watched and been amazed by the quality of stills and animations comming out on Blender Nation using both 2.49 and 2.5. ‘The Cup’ springs to mind as a a recent good example, but there are others and even more on the way: ‘The London Project’, and the ‘Tube’, being prime examples.
I like the way there are free tutorials from CGTUTS, BlenderCookie and BlenderGuru to name but a few to help me progress my current lack of ability……
There are a lot of people who have put a lot of sweat and tears into Blender 2.5, some now seeking employment elsewhere (Brecht), and the artists involved with Sintel, I wish them well.
Whilst I cannot promise you screaming girls tomorrow night, I do wish you (the team) the best for tomorrow night. Please feel free to return the compliment with a suitable number of you suffering the after effects of a large quantity of beer! of other items located in that part of the world.
regards TFS
September 26th, 2010 at 8:54 pm
This is so exciting! This has been an amazing journey! Great job to all!
September 26th, 2010 at 9:14 pm
It says 4 hours, 19 minutes to go. You guys got a minute?
September 26th, 2010 at 9:35 pm
I’ve just started working with Blender for about a year and I love this program. I have been watching along as Sintel has been progressing. What an exciting moment for your entire team and what testament for the Blender community as a whole. Congratulations to the team. I think the countdown clock is a nice touch. Clearly you are all very excited as you should be. Enjoy the evening and the kudos that will come with it. You are all incredibly awesome!
September 27th, 2010 at 12:03 am
Hey, i saw sintel this afternoon at 16h, during “animatie 2010”. It was awesome, and the end surprised me. Is ther going to be a 4th Movie?
September 27th, 2010 at 12:37 am
Aaaaah, great, I’m gonna see it coming evening! (for the second time, I’ve attended the pre-premiere)
How was the 35mm print and the sound?
September 27th, 2010 at 3:03 am
Look what I just found in the daily newspaper of the festival:
http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/4867/sintelnffkrant.jpg (I know, it’s Dutch)
Some answers Ton gave have been extremely simplified, unfortunately making them incorrect. 🙁
Funny thing to read is that they had to call and bother Halina Reijn’s agent quite a lot. 😀
Also some funny words about the Dutch accents and the ”zit stil” in the cabin scene. 😀
But great that you get such attention, hopefully it will fill the last empty seats this evening!
September 27th, 2010 at 3:50 am
I’m confused. According to the countdown Sintel will be showing in less then one hour. Which is at 4:33AM in Amsterdam. But at 7:33pm in California time…??? I think the countdown is going by everyone local time on their computer. When I read 3dementia’s comment I still had over 6 hours left… Wait a minute; but then it should say one day and one hour, since it is still the 26th here…??? :p
September 27th, 2010 at 3:59 am
Just set my computers clock back 2 hours and now the countdown says 2 hours and 33 minutes left. It is going according to the time on the computer viewing it! its probably to late to fix it though. :p If any one is wondering since the time of this post there is still 15 hours 33 minutes until the premiere.
September 27th, 2010 at 8:03 am
wooo! 30 mins to go! break a leg…or whatever.. 😉
September 27th, 2010 at 8:08 am
hmmm actaully I check the time difference on TimeandDate.com and there is 11.5 hours to go 🙁
September 27th, 2010 at 8:10 am
I guess you were warming up on the clock before the leg… 😀
September 27th, 2010 at 9:06 am
Wish you the best for the premiere. Wish i could be there… Now i´m just waiting for the online release. I was a bit angry that it´s online before i get my preordered DVD at first, but then i realised that my main reason to buy it was to support Durian, not to be someone special. So just put it online, cant wait any longer!
September 27th, 2010 at 9:19 am
Hope you have a good fesitval. Film looks great never in doubt.
Good luck today hope everyyhing goes to plan today.
September 27th, 2010 at 10:35 am
At 19.48 i´ll be working, but I´ll stop my job to start two minutes of applause,
two minutes, no more,..hahahahaha….
Greetings and best wishes from Spain.
Good luck, …but you (we) don´t need it. 😀
September 27th, 2010 at 11:39 am
The best for Durian team!
Wish i were there!
September 27th, 2010 at 12:03 pm
YEAH !!!!! ITS TIME PREMIERE NOW XD.
but not till the 30th for me
September 27th, 2010 at 12:16 pm
woot…
September 27th, 2010 at 1:59 pm
Guys, it’s 1:57 PM now here in the Netherlands, the countdown only works correctly when you set the clock of your PC on GMT +2.
So now it’s 5 hours and 34 minutes to go!
September 28th, 2010 at 1:32 am
Hurrah! It’s here!
September 28th, 2010 at 11:19 am
The premiere was awesome!
October 9th, 2010 at 11:50 pm
Awesome !