<div id="magicdomid292" class="ace-line" style="padding-right:1px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:17px"><span class="" style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:1px">Fellow Pirates,</span></div><div id="magicdomid293" class="ace-line" style="padding-right:1px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:17px">
<br></div><div id="magicdomid294" class="ace-line" style="padding-right:1px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:17px"><span class="" style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:1px">I want to make you aware of a project of Russian film-makers called "Have you forgotten what we used to play?". The short film by the Artkino and LookAround Pictures is the first Russian movie released under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license. It tells the story of a young man turning to his childhood memories while arranging the sale of his old country house. The filmmakers hope not only to cover the production costs, but also to build up funding for their next project from the contributions from the movie’s Internet audience. This is the first instance of a film released in Russia under the Creative Commons license. </span></div>
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<span class="" style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:1px">The film was shot by a team of twenty enthusiasts using the producer’s personal money in 2009-2010. Despite the film’s small budget of only $6000, the short has picked up awards at various Russian author cinema festivals. Private cinemas all over Russia began screening the film in September 2010. </span><span style="font-size:13px">One year after the premiere, September 24, 2011, the film came into the public domain, as part of an agreement between the director and producer. Now, anyone can download or watch it on Youtube, supporting the production team according to the “Pay What You Can” model. </span></div>
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<span class="" style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:1px">In December 2011, the filmmakers decided to introduce the film to an international audience with the help of the world-renowned service vo.do, a media distributor releasing films under the Creative Commons license. </span><span class="" style="font-size:13px;padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:1px">The subtitled English version can be downloaded at Vo.Do or viewed online in official </span><span class="" style="font-size:13px;padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:1px">movie site - </span><span class=" url" style="font-size:13px;padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:1px"><a href="http://video.finar.ru/" style>http://video.finar.ru/</a></span></div>
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<span class="" style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:1px">The director of the movie contacted the Pirate Party of Russia asking for help with the promotion. As we are regularly attending various TV shows and debates, explaining to the authors that with Internet they do not need producers any more and that earning money on the Net is easy, we thought that it it was our responsibility to help them. We arranged the publications in Russian press and Internet, gave them the information about existing payment services and installed Flattr to their page.</span></div>
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<span class="" style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:1px">In my personal opinion the movie is crap! The plot and the characters are too primitive and the acting is below average. It is nothing special. However it's exactly how the Russian summer life in '90s looked like, therefore it might be of interest for people from other countries – to compare their memories with the memories of Russians. </span></div>
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<span class="" style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:1px">I'm going to donate the guys my 10 euro for their movie anyway because I respect their efforts and because I believe in the Internet. The movie team was working for free, on pure enthusiasm. They promised to spend the money to produce a new movie. I really hope that the new movie will be much better - they have the potential! </span></div>
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<span class="" style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:1px">I want to support his project because Pirate Party of Russia is promoting it and I want to show the producers that the new business models we offer to the creators actually do work, and because this movie made me remember what I used to play when was a child...</span></div>
<br><div>Best regards,</div><div>Lola Voronina,</div><div>International Coordinator, Pirate Party of Russia</div><div>Chief Administrative Officer, Pirate Parties International</div>