An innovative way of tackling piracy in Peru was among the topics up for discussion at a panel hosted by Ventana Sur genre sidebar Blood Window on Wednesday.
Peruvian director Dorian Fernández-Moris told the audience in a session moderated by Screen International Us editor Jeremy Kay how the counterfeiters wasted no time going after his first film Cementario General.
“My movie opened and next day they were selling my movie at the traffic lights for $2,” said Fernández-Moris. “I wanted to kick them but I understand this is part of a huge machine.”
What happened next was even more eye-opening. The filmmaker explained how the people who distributed pirate copies formed Fencopac, an association that acquired home distribution rights to Peruvian films.
Fencopac sells legal DVDs and Blu-ray discs at around $4 and returns $1 from each sale to the producers.
“We don’t have piracy any more. I received $35,000 for Cemetary 2 and a similar amount for another film. Now...
Peruvian director Dorian Fernández-Moris told the audience in a session moderated by Screen International Us editor Jeremy Kay how the counterfeiters wasted no time going after his first film Cementario General.
“My movie opened and next day they were selling my movie at the traffic lights for $2,” said Fernández-Moris. “I wanted to kick them but I understand this is part of a huge machine.”
What happened next was even more eye-opening. The filmmaker explained how the people who distributed pirate copies formed Fencopac, an association that acquired home distribution rights to Peruvian films.
Fencopac sells legal DVDs and Blu-ray discs at around $4 and returns $1 from each sale to the producers.
“We don’t have piracy any more. I received $35,000 for Cemetary 2 and a similar amount for another film. Now...
- 12/2/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
When I was down at the Morbido Film Festival a young filmmaker from Argentina, Matias Salinas, was hell bent on meeting me. Not because I was me (Derrr!) but because of us, TwitchFilm. He wanted us to be the first to share the trailer for his horror thriller Presagio (Omen) and I am really glad that he found me, and that someone was there to help with his minimal English and my non-existent Spanish. So here we are with your first look at the trailer for Presagio. What do we think? Why, hello there psychotic fever dream. How are you today? Very well thank you, thanks to my handy umbrella. Yeah. This looks very interesting indeed. A young writer traumatized by the death of his wife and...
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- 11/18/2015
- Screen Anarchy
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