I love movies. Escaping to a cinema with a tub of popcorn or packet of Maltesers is a favourite pass-time. And, by now, readers will know I love community built projects. So when I found A Swarm of Angels I fell in love.

A Swarm of Angels is about making a £1 million movie and giving it away to one million people in one year. By using the Internet to gather together 50,000 people willing to pay £25 to join an exclusive global online community–The Swarm–the project’s ambition is to make the world’s first Internet-funded, crewed and distributed feature film.

I can be involved in a movie making project, from my armchair if I desire. Not only that, it’s all open: DRM free, P2P friendly, using Creative Commons, and remix friendly.

Matt Hanson is the man behind the project. He’s an award-winning filmmaker, and responsible for some short films, among other things. Cory Doctorow, of Boing Boing fame, is also onboard, as well as cult comic book creator Warren Ellis, Tommy Pallotta the producer of A Scanner Darkly, and…awww hell…just check out the team.

Now the question is, will he get 50,000 supporters willing to cough up the cash. Well, there is always the 53651 (now over 121,000), proving there are a bunch of early adopters for this type of thing. So, I’ve no doubt it’ll happen. I’ve signed up, and all too easy step to take with a PayPal account.

Now I’m looking forward to being involved in making the movie. Bring it on.

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