Sanctuary (short film)

Sanctuary is a re-mixable science fiction film which, in 2005, became the first production to sign professional union actors to Creative Commons licensing terms. It is set in Head Bin, a fictional universe created by MOD Films for their remixable movie experiment.

Sanctuary
Directed byMichela Ledwidge
Cinematography35mm
Running time
approx. 10 min.
CountriesUnited Kingdom, Australia
LanguageEnglish

The film was completed in 2009. Most production assets, including principal photography shot on 35mm film and digitised, have been cleared for free-for-non-commercial use. The project is a superhero origin story, as well as a pilot for a massively multi-player feature film and an open interactive story format, the RIG, being developed by MOD Films in London.

Reception and awards
  • Sydney Film Festival Innovation Award (2009)
  • Creative Commons article (July 2006)[1]
  • Wired Magazine (January 2006)[2]
  • ABC Radio (May 2004)[3]
  • Sydney Morning Herald (April 2004)[4]
  • Slashdot (March 2004)[5]
  • The Guardian article (June 2004)[6]
  • NESTA Inventions award for Sanctuary (May 2004)[7]

References
  1. "MOD Films". July 20, 2006.
  2. "The Best Worst Movie of the Year" – via www.wired.com.
  3. "Archived copy". www.abc.net.au. Archived from the original on 2008-11-08.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. "Mixing movies at home". The Sydney Morning Herald. June 7, 2005.
  5. "Creative Commons In the News - Slashdot". yro.slashdot.org.
  6. Guardian Staff (July 1, 2004). "Cultural news roundup". the Guardian.
  7. http://www.nesta.org.uk/about/directory/index.aspx?q=Michela%20Ledwidge%20-%20MOD%20Films%5B%5D


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