Official Plastic Paradise Documentary Thread - General Tiki

CM Common Machine Member Joined: Aug 22, 2012 Posts: 8	CM Common Machine Posted posted on Tue, Jun 24, 2014 12:49 PM Hello Tiki Central, We've gotten lots and lots of inquiries about when Plastic Paradise will be available on DVD. The short answer is probably not until early 2015. The slightly longer explanation has mostly (though not entirely) to do with the music in the film... To wit: We made this film on a shoe string budget (and that's an insult to shoe strings) for a small PBS affiliate. One of the great things about PBS is it has blanket agreements with BMI and ASCAP, the two major music licensing organizations, which enabled us to use lots of music that we never ever would have been able to afford on our wee budget. The hitch is, those agreements do not extend to DVD publishing. We can't rightly author and sell DVDs without paying for those music licenses. So... the solution will be to re-score the entire film with music that we can get gratis. We've had many offers, and in fact, a portion of the film already has music from various artists who allowed us to use their music and who have expressed interest in allowing us to use more in order to make the DVD happen. But its a load of work. We're pretty confident we can make that happen, but finding time in the schedule (we have four other films in various stages of production as well as all our corporate work) won't be easy. We should have some time late fall. So, hopefully we're looking at a Christmas/New Years date. On a side note: we've been told someone has taken it upon themselves to press DVDs and was selling them at the recent Tiki marketplace. That's pretty shitty. I know the Tiki community is generally pretty tight knit -- I assume the perpetrator is known and probably hangs out here -- and self-policing so if someone knows who that person is and can tell them cut the shit out, that'd be great. A lot of people worked very, very hard on the film for over a year and a half, most of whom received little or no compensation. So for this person to be making a personal gain off stealing our work is pretty damn lousy. Moving on ... We're really grateful and humbled for the way the film has been received in the Tiki community. It continues to get scheduled at PBS affiliates across the country, so if it hasn't aired yet, call your local affiliate and ask for it. We're happy to provide them a copy if they missed the original feed. We're also happy to facilitate screenings at your local art house theater. If you have a connection at a local theater, by all means send them my way and we'll see what we can make happen. Odds are we can make an event out of it. And, of course, if you are on the West Coast, we'll be in attendance for this weekend's screening at the Egyptian Theater. Here is the Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1438461513075886/ All the best, Brett

Hello Tiki Central,

We've gotten lots and lots of inquiries about when Plastic Paradise will be available on DVD. The short answer is probably not until early 2015. The slightly longer explanation has mostly (though not entirely) to do with the music in the film...

To wit:

We made this film on a shoe string budget (and that's an insult to shoe strings) for a small PBS affiliate. One of the great things about PBS is it has blanket agreements with BMI and ASCAP, the two major music licensing organizations, which enabled us to use lots of music that we never ever would have been able to afford on our wee budget. The hitch is, those agreements do not extend to DVD publishing. We can't rightly author and sell DVDs without paying for those music licenses.

So... the solution will be to re-score the entire film with music that we can get gratis. We've had many offers, and in fact, a portion of the film already has music from various artists who allowed us to use their music and who have expressed interest in allowing us to use more in order to make the DVD happen. But its a load of work.

We're pretty confident we can make that happen, but finding time in the schedule (we have four other films in various stages of production as well as all our corporate work) won't be easy. We should have some time late fall. So, hopefully we're looking at a Christmas/New Years date.

On a side note: we've been told someone has taken it upon themselves to press DVDs and was selling them at the recent Tiki marketplace. That's pretty shitty. I know the Tiki community is generally pretty tight knit -- I assume the perpetrator is known and probably hangs out here -- and self-policing so if someone knows who that person is and can tell them cut the shit out, that'd be great. A lot of people worked very, very hard on the film for over a year and a half, most of whom received little or no compensation. So for this person to be making a personal gain off stealing our work is pretty damn lousy.

Moving on ... We're really grateful and humbled for the way the film has been received in the Tiki community. It continues to get scheduled at PBS affiliates across the country, so if it hasn't aired yet, call your local affiliate and ask for it. We're happy to provide them a copy if they missed the original feed. We're also happy to facilitate screenings at your local art house theater. If you have a connection at a local theater, by all means send them my way and we'll see what we can make happen. Odds are we can make an event out of it.

And, of course, if you are on the West Coast, we'll be in attendance for this weekend's screening at the Egyptian Theater.
Here is the Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1438461513075886/

All the best,

Brett

Post #720899 by Common Machine on Tue, Jun 24, 2014 12:49 PM