Filmmaker Launches Latest Movie on Torrents
Previous Release Was a Success
"American Prince" continues the saga of Scorsese's legendary "American Boy"
Over the past two years there’s been a clear growth of a sort of an antagonism in perceiving the effects of p2p between some artists or filmmakers and the so called protectors of artists such as the MPAA.
While the first category expresses satisfaction in seeing their work climbing in the top of most downloaded works on the BitTorrent, the latter attacks the p2p networks and those who run them relentlessly.
Tommy Pallotta is a filmmaker and one who supports file sharing. He already had the satisfaction mentioned earlier when his movie “A Scanner Darkly” starring Keanu Reeves was extremely well received on p2p networks. Now he wants his latest film to have the same course.
With his latest creation, the American director living in Amsterdam has changed his focus. The film is actually “a follow up documentary to film legend Martin Scorsese’s cult-classic American Boy that was shot more than thirty years ago,” reports TorrentFreak. “In American Boy Scorsese documented the life of his friend Steven Prince, who was also the inspiration for one of the best known scene’s in Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction. With American Prince Pallotta continues the saga.”
Now let’s get back to how this post started – it’s about filmmakers supporting file sharing, remember? So how does Pallotta keeps up with his view? By continuing to make his films available for free on BitTorrent.
TorrentFreak has interviewed Pallotta trying to get more info and opinions from the director himself. Here’s an excerpt from the interview, if you want to read all of it go here.
TF: The MPAA has often argued that the movie industry loses billions of dollars through piracy. Others think that it has close to no impact. What’s your position in the ongoing ‘piracy debate’?
Tommy: Well, everyone has a different opinion. It is pretty simple to me: The exact same thing that happened to the music industry will happen to the film industry. I suspect the film industry knows that and is trying to hold off the inevitable as long as they can. My guess is that they will try to make as much money as long as they can until they have to change or someone comes in and organizes and unifies the industry in the way Apple did for music. But even that is tricky because obviously Apple benefited more than the music industry. So they should be looking at alternative revenue streams, I find it hard to believe that many DVDs will be sold a few years from now. I would rather embrace new technologies and distribution methods, I feel this gives me greater and more immediate access to an audience.
