List of open content films
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This article contains a list of films that meet at least one of the definitions for an open content film. Concerning the use of the term Open Source
in connection with films, see Open source film
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Open source
The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...
in connection with films, see Open source film
Open source film
Open-source films are films which are produced and distributed by using free and open-source software methodologies...
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Published films
The following list is sorted by release date. Entries that have a release month are listed in front of others.| Name | Type | Released | CC License | Sources available | Open Source Movie | Comment | |
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| Dancing to Architecture - a motion picture about TINA | Documentary | 2002 | by 2.5 AU | The first open source documentary of its kind. | |||
| Universe42 | short films | 7/2003 | by-nc-nd 1.0 | Short films by Brett Koonce. | |||
| CH7 | full feature | 04/2004 | by-nc-nd 1.0 | First movie released under a CC license. | |||
| Route 66 - an American badDream | documentary style | 2004 | by-nc-sa 2.0 | First movie providing sources. | |||
| Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning is a 2005 motion picture produced by five friends in a two-room flat with a small budget and the support of a few hundred fans and dozens of acquaintances. Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning is the seventh production in the Star Wreck movie series, the first of professional... |
full feature | 2005 | by-nc-nd 3.0 | Most successful Finnish film in terms of views. | |||
| Elephants Dream Elephants Dream Elephants Dream is a computer-generated short film that was produced almost completely using the free software 3D suite Blender . It premiered on March 24, 2006, after about 8 months of work... |
animated short | 04/2006 | by 2.5 | First Open Source Movie, created with the Blender Open Source Software. | |||
| Boy Who Never Slept Boy Who Never Slept Boy Who Never Slept is an open-source movie that was released online on July 2, 2006 by Solomon Rothman. It is a comedy with some elements of romance, and is available for download by many means, . The source audio and video files can also be downloaded, so anyone can edit the movie.-External... |
full feature | 07/2006 | by-nc-sa 2.5 | Source files available under CC by 2.5. | |||
| Cactuses Cactuses Cactuses is a 2006 open-content motion picture created by the Arc2 Project, which consisted of twenty-four High School school students and five college students based in Manteca, CA.This movie is unique in its content, creation, and distribution... |
full feature | 2006 | by-nc-nd 2.5 | ||||
| Stray Cinema Stray Cinema Stray Cinema is an open source movie. The raw footage from a feature film shot in Melbourne has been made available for the public to download from the Stray Cinema website. This is the second open source movie provided by Stray Cinema... |
Remix Project | 2006 | by 3.0 | Collaborative project | |||
| .re_potemkin | contemporary art project | 2007 | A remake of Sergei Eisenstein's "Battleship Potemkin" using crowndsourcing / peer production method. A .f.reeP_ project by .-_-. | ||||
| Insecurity | full feature | 2007 | by-nc-nd 3.0 | ||||
| Big Buck Bunny Big Buck Bunny Big Buck Bunny is a short computer animated film by the Blender Institute, part of the Blender Foundation.Like the foundation's previous film Elephants Dream, the film was made using Blender, a free software application for animation made by the same foundation.-Overview:Work began in October 2007... |
animated short | 08/2008 | by 3.0 | Created with the Blender Open Source Software. | |||
| Oceania | feature film | 2008 | by-nc-sa 3.0 | Official selection Cinequest Film Festival 2008. | |||
| Torno Subito | full feature | 9 October 2008 | by-nc 3.0 | Torno Subito is the World’s First Free Movie for the Web in HD. | |||
| Pentagon | feature film | 12/2008 | by 3.0 | Filmed entirely with a mobile phone camera. | |||
| Sita Sings the Blues | full feature | 3/2009 | by-sa 3.0 | One-man project by Nina Paley. | |||
| Jathia's Wager | short film | 3/1/2009 | by-nc-sa 3.0 (final), by-sa 3.0 (source files) | ||||
| Seven Dead Men | full feature | 5/2009 | by-nc-nd 3.0 | One-man project by Brett Koonce Brett Koonce Brett Koonce is an American filmmaker, best known for 2009's Seven Dead Men.He attended the USC School of Cinema-Television, where he made a number of short films that were published under the Creative Commons license.He currently resides in the midwest.... . |
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| Dozer. | feature film | 11/2009 | by 3.0 | ||||
| Valkaama | full feature | 01/2010 | by-sa 3.0 | Movie with Open Source production and distribution approach. | |||
| Tetris | feature film | 06/2010 | by 3.0 | ||||
| Riverpool | feature film | 06/2010 | by 3.0 | Encourages viewers to compile their own soundtrack from the film and share. | |||
| Fires beneath water | feature film | 2009 | by 3.0 | Historical documentary made in Caracas with free footage from public libraries and televisions and showed on a TV station. (English and Spanish versions) | |||
| La Chute d'une plume (pèse plus que ta pudeur) | animated short | 10/10/10 | by-nc-sa 3.0 | http://lachuteduneplume.free.fr. |
Upcoming Films
| Name | Type | Planned Release | CC License | Sources available | Open Source Movie | Comment |
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| The Last Drug | full feature | 2009 | by-sa 3.0 | Status: Post-production. | ||
| A Swarm of Angels A Swarm of Angels A Swarm of Angels is an open source film project and participatory film community, whose aim is to make the world’s first Internet-funded, crewed and distributed feature film. The collaborative project aims to attract 50,000 individual subscribers , each contributing £25 to the production... |
full feature | not yet | by-nc-sa 2.0 | Collaborative project. Status: Pre-production. | ||
| Sanctuary Sanctuary (short film) Sanctuary is an upcoming re-mixable science fiction film which became the first production to sign professional union actors to Creative Commons licensing terms. It is in VFX post production as of March 2007. Every production asset, including principal photography shot on 35mm film and digitised,... |
short | not yet | by-nc-sa 2.5 | |||
| The Digital Tipping Point | documentary | not yet released | by-sa | Collaborative project. | ||
| Collision | short | not yet | by-sa 3.0 | first Brazilian open source film. | ||
| The Green Sight | Documentary | not yet | TBD | Green - sustainable living open source film. | ||
| The Beautiful Queen Marya Morevna - Underground | animated feature | not yet | by 3.0 | Anime-style cyberpunk folktale | ||
| Lunatics! - "No Children in Space" | animated series pilot | 2012? | by-sa 3.0 | Near future science-fiction | ||
| Moon Dog | Feature film | 2011 | by 3.0 | Documentary | ||