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{{Grant Application
|Project Title=Shared Film Festival
|applicants=Shared Film Fesitval
|contact person=Jamie King, Hyojung Sun
|coordinator=Jamie King, Hyojung Sun
|start date=2010/07/01
|end date=2011/07/01
|Affiliation=VODO, Creative Commons, BitTorrent, various filmmaking organisation, various festivals, various film organisations 
|Mainurl=sharedfilm.cc
|Affiliated=Yes
|description=In South Korea this year we organised the 1st Shared Film Festival in collaboration with CC Korea, VODO, KODIFI and BitTorrent. The purpose of the festival is to bring free-to-share films using CC licenses to the attention of local audiences in cinemas, promoting both shared culture and the films and filmmakers involved. The event was seen as a success and we would like to extend it as a "satellite" event, both to other CC conferences (Australia has expressed an interest in hosting) and to film festivals worldwide. We think this can be valuable both to free-to-share filmmakers and to the promotion of CC objectives.
|output=The central output is the Festival event itself, wherever it takes place. This will center around the model of a series of free/pay-what-you-want screenings made available through local infrastructure in collaboration with relevant cinemas and groups. We also produce brochures, posters and generate press around the event. In addition we will maintain the sharedfilm.cc website and extend that for use outside Korea. We would expect to use this grant toward the development of at least one further event in 2010 and one during 2011. 
|community=The Shared Film events target local audiences who are interested both in the concept of sharing and in independent film itself. While these audiences are different, it's highly productive to bring them together to discover how free-to-share is enabling a new film culture through a new mode of distribution. Access to culture is one important benefit the Shared Film event can bring. The other key benefit is increased awareness of the benefits of sharing and the rich culture growing around CC and free-to-share. Finally, we see important benefits for filmmakers basing their developing careers around sharing: our events are a great way to reward them for the value they are giving to shared culture. 
|community relationship=Having already organised the 1st Shared Festival in Seoul in 2010, we feel well placed to extend the concept and work with other venues, organisations and festivals. While we would very much like to see others pursuing curations of shared culture in festivals, for now it seems that we will have to lead the way. Our background in CC Korea (HyoJung Sun) and filmmaking/distribtion (Jamie King) give us good connections and experience to take the project forward, both in terms of finding and sustaining partnerships, and making sure there's exciting new content to show around the world.  
|measurement=There are a number of measures of success in this project. One is attendance the events themselves, and we'll measure this. Another is how well the event works to promote the idea of a free-to-share film culture that works to bring new filmmakers into the discourse. This is harder to measure, but we'll make a strong effort to understand how well the event functions in this specific outreach capacity. Lastly, we'll be able to poll our partner organisations (such as CC Australia) to understand how much value they feel the Shared Film events provided to them -- we know that in Seoul it was seen as valuable. Taken together these should provide good measures of success. 
|participants=We'll have two core organisers, named above, and around 2-3 others working on the development of the project. This grant will pay those others as we work towards the future events. Once we reach the point of organising a specific festival, we'll leverage the support of partner organisations, as we did in Asia, to help with organisation on the ground. This enables us to make the grant go a long way, but we'll also be seeking specific support from commercial sponsors.  
|impact=This has probably been covered above, but one the key benefits here is that the Shared Film event provides a further motivation for filmmakers to distribute their work in a free-to-share form -- that they may be invited to an occasion where they'll be given a public forum and honoured in a way associated with traditional film festivals. This is an opportunity often not open to shared-culture contributors, so it's important, and it will clearly help motivate new creators to consider sharing their works. 
|tech needs=This is not really a particularly technically innovative project, though it does rely on a number of technologies to make it work. We'll use the normal assemblage of blogs, chat, ftp and so forth to handle logistics. Other technical needs are handled by editors, cinema engineers and so on. We do not see technical requirements as a limitation here except, perhaps, in the case of trying to export the event to a less developed country.
|challenges=For us the key challenge is finding sponsors that can enable us to bring enough filmmakers out to the events. Having filmmakers present is great for filmmakers and CC culture (see above) but it's also important for audiences grappling with the concepts of shared culture who are able to discuss with creators who have direct experience with the benefits and problems associated with sharing their work. This means that we need to develop strong relationships with supporting organisations, and that's something this grant can help us find the time to do.  
|sustainability=See above. 
|scalability=With a 'cuckoo' model of running alongside others' events, this is not really scalable, but certainly replicable and repeatable. We'd intend to off the Shared Film programme as a free-to-use component for events, using BitTorrent to distribute the core content; but each year we'd be aiming to run 2-3 events ourselves at strategic conference and festivals. We're already in discussion about doing this alongside the Berlinale, but it's our hope that others will pick up the programme and do it without us, choosing their own artists to invite!  
|resource needs=We'd like to ask for the maximum grant of $10,000 from CC to help us continue to make this event possible. In any case we'll continue to work with local CC organisations to bring the event to CC events each year.
|communication=We communicate with audiences through sharedfilm.cc and we'll soon develop Twitter and Facebook presences. In addition we are able to leverage local CC networks, and the networks of VODO and BitTorrent 
|free text=COULD NOT UPLOAD BUDGET in rtf or ODT format. Please email jamie@jamie.com for this info.
|legal=Yes
}}