‘2040’
The world premiere of Damon Gameau’s innovative documentary 2040 at the Berlin International Film Festival has elicited strong interest from international buyers and hugely positive responses from audiences.
The producers, Good Thing Productions’ Nick Batzias, Anna Kaplan and Virginia Whitwell, held off on doing pre-sales, figuring they would get better deals after the premiere in the Kplus section of the Generation program.
A three year self-described labour of love, 2040 takes the form of a visual letter from the filmmaker to his four-year-old daughter Velvet, showing her what the year 2040 could look like “if we simply embraced the best solutions that exist today.”
“We have had discussions with various platforms and distributors,” Gameau tells If on the line from Berlin. “Platforms are very open to having event screenings because they understand people want that experience. We are talking to a heap of people. There are some good options out there, including Netflix,...
The world premiere of Damon Gameau’s innovative documentary 2040 at the Berlin International Film Festival has elicited strong interest from international buyers and hugely positive responses from audiences.
The producers, Good Thing Productions’ Nick Batzias, Anna Kaplan and Virginia Whitwell, held off on doing pre-sales, figuring they would get better deals after the premiere in the Kplus section of the Generation program.
A three year self-described labour of love, 2040 takes the form of a visual letter from the filmmaker to his four-year-old daughter Velvet, showing her what the year 2040 could look like “if we simply embraced the best solutions that exist today.”
“We have had discussions with various platforms and distributors,” Gameau tells If on the line from Berlin. “Platforms are very open to having event screenings because they understand people want that experience. We are talking to a heap of people. There are some good options out there, including Netflix,...
- 2/13/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
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