Open-source films are films which are produced and distributed by using free

Free software

Free software, software libre or libre software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with restrictions that only ensure that further recipients can also do...

 and open-source software

Open-source software

Open-source software is computer software that is available in source code form: the source code and certain other rights normally reserved for copyright holders are provided under a software license that permits users to study, change, improve and at times also to distribute the software.Open...

 methodologies. Their sources are freely available and the licenses used meet the demands of the Open Source Initiative

Open Source Initiative

The Open Source Initiative is an organization dedicated to promoting open source software.The organization was founded in February 1998, by Bruce Perens and Eric S. Raymond, prompted by Netscape Communications Corporation publishing the source code for its flagship Netscape Communicator product...

 (OSI) in terms of freedom.

Definition

A definition of an open-source film is based on the OSI's open-source software definitionhttp://www.opensource.org/docs/osd and the definition of free cultural licenses

Definition of Free Cultural Works

The Definition of Free Cultural Works is the definition of free content put forth by Erik Möller and published on the website .The first draft of the Definition of Free Cultural Works was published 3 April 2006 . Richard Stallman, Lawrence Lessig, Angela Beesley and others helped the project...

http://freedomdefined.org/Definition. This definition can be applied to films where:

1. The license of the movie is approved for free cultural works
   Definition of Free Cultural Works
   The Definition of Free Cultural Works is the definition of free content put forth by Erik Möller and published on the website .The first draft of the Definition of Free Cultural Works was published 3 April 2006 . Richard Stallman, Lawrence Lessig, Angela Beesley and others helped the project...
   
   . Specifically this is true for the Creative Commons
   Creative Commons
   Creative Commons is a non-profit organization headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has released several copyright-licenses known as Creative Commons...
   
    licenses by and by-sa.
2. The materials used in the movie (sources) are also available under a license which is approved for free cultural works.
3. The movie and its sources are made publicly available via an online download or by other means that are either free or with a cost that covers reasonable reproduction expenses only.
4. The sources should be viewable and editable with free/open-source software. If this is not the case, they must be convertible into such a format by using free/open-source software. The same applies to the movie itself.
5. It should be possible to re-create or re-assemble the movie using the source materials.

Films or film projects which do not meet these criteria are either not open source or partially open source.

List of open source films

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Name	Type	Released	CC License	Sources	Comment
Dancing to Architecture – a motion picture about TINA	Documentary	2002	by 2.5 AU	link	Collaborative production. Vital Focus 2002.
Route 66	road movie / gonzo Gonzo journalism Gonzo journalism is a style of journalism that is written without claims of objectivity, often including the reporter as part of the story via a first-person narrative. The word "gonzo" is believed to be first used in 1970 to describe an article by Hunter S. Thompson, who later popularized the style... -documentary	12/2004	by-sa 3.0	streaming torrent	Became popular as Germany's first open-source film. The license changed to CC by-sa in July 2009.
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	link	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...	Feature Length Film	07/2006	by 3.0	http://moviepals.org/solomons-corner/boywhoneverslept/watch-and-download-free-movie-bwns/ 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...	Created with Adobe Premier Pro, Final Cut and various others.
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...	Short Film/ Remix project	2006	by 3.0	http://straycinema.com/footage-2009/	Collaborative project
.re_potemkin	contemporary art project	2007	none/copyleft	link	A remake of Sergei Eisenstein's "Battleship Potemkin" using crowndsourcing / peer production method.
Oceania	Feature-length independent film from the San Francisco Bay Area	2008	by-nc-sa 3.0	homepage torrent	Self-distribution via BitTorrent and Archive.org (25,000+ downloads)
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	link	Created with the Blender Open Source Software.
Jathia's Wager	short film	02/2009	by-sa 3.0	link	Sources only consist of the movie without music score.
Sita Sings the Blues Sita Sings the Blues Sita Sings the Blues is a 2008 animated feature film written, directed, produced and animated entirely by American artist Nina Paley , primarily using 2D computer graphics and Flash Animation.It intersperses events from the Ramayana, illustrated conversation between Indian shadow puppets,...	animated musical of the Indian epic the Ramayana	2009	by-sa 3.0	link
Valkaama	full feature	01/2010	by-sa 3.0	homepage torrent	Collaborative project. HD download available (720p and 1080p)
The Digital Tipping Point	documentary	in production	by-sa	link	Collaborative project.
The Last Drug	full feature	not yet	by-sa 3.0	in production
Sintel Sintel Sintel is a short computer animated film by the Blender Institute, part of the Blender Foundation. The name comes from the Dutch word sintel, which can mean cinder or ember, as confirmed by Ton Roosendaal in a blog comment: " “Sintel” is [a] piece of glowing coal or metal...	animated short	10/2010	by 3.0	link	Created with the Blender Open Source Software.
La Chute d'une plume (pèse plus que ta pudeur)	animated short	10/2010	by-sa 3.0	homepage link	Created with the Kdenlive Kdenlive Kdenlive is an open source video editing software package based on the MLT Framework that focuses on flexibility and ease of use...  Open Source Software.
Project Code Rush Code Rush Code Rush is a 1998 documentary following the lives of a group of Netscape engineers in Silicon Valley. It was shot during a time of flagging company fortunes, the initial release of the Mozilla code as an open source project, and the friction of an impending AOL-Netscape merger...	documentary	not yet	cc 3.0	link

External links

• Revolution of Open Source and Film Making Towards Open Film Making (M.A. thesis)