A Swarm of Angels

A Swarm of Angels: Poster release

If you’ve been following this blog for awhile, you might be familiar a film project I find to be really neat: A Swarm of Angels (former posts of mine here) will be a real, and radical, innovation: It’ll be big-ass, professionally produced movie funded (in terms of both money and creativity) by a community of […]


A Swarm of Angels: Thousands not hundreds

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I was thrilled to hear that A Swarm of Angels (the amazing collaborative community-based film project lead by Matt Hanson) is hitting the 1000+ members mark: This also means its time to freeze membership for a little while to guarantee for the necessary stability. Phase 2 out of 5 accomplished!
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A Swarm of Angels: Movie Poster Competition

Ever thought of designing a poster? Like, one that’s going to be the official promo material for a real movie? (And a kick-ass one, too!) Well, here’s your chance.
The great independent, collaborative & community-driven film project A Swarm of Angels has started a movie poster competition.
Palla has released his latest stunning image for A Swarm […]


zeit.zuender covers A Swarm of Angels

Community-based, super-collaborative film project A Swarm of Angels is picking up speed. By now, it’s even slowly getting some credit in German media. Meike Richter just wrote a nice piece for zeit.zuender.
It’s always nice to see A Swarm of Angels covered - it’s an awesome and ambitious project which I’m glad to support. (Older […]


Relaunch: A Swarm of Angels

The great & ambitious film collaborative film project A Swarm Of Angels (which I’m a proud, if passive, member of) have relaunched their website. Now it’s all in the looks of the new official poster above. A Swarm Of Angels, or ASOA for short, is headed by film maker Matt Hanson (his website, his weblog), […]


A Swarm of Angels is The Next Big Web Thing

Just a short note: A Swarm of Angels, the independent, community-driven and -produced sci-fi movie, just got voted The Next Big Web Thing. Congrats! (To read up on what A Swarm of Angels is and how it works, check out my former postings.)


The Next Big Thing: A Swarm of Angels

A little while ago I posted about A Swarm of Angels, an ambitious independent movie production I just find incredibly neat & innovative. A Swarm of Angels is one of this month’s nominees for The Next Big Thing, and it’s certainly worth being supported. (Some of the other projects there are worth checking out, too!) […]


A Swarm of Angels spreading quickly

This is pretty amazing: A Swarm of Angels, the community-funded and community-driven film project by Matt Hanson, Cory Doctorow and Warren Ellis, is finding its way around the blogosphere pretty quickly. Within the last 6 days, 33 sites have linked there, catapulting it to somewhere around Technorati Rank 78K. When I joined The Swarm 4 […]


A Swarm of Angels

Many aspects of the idea behind (bottom-up community-driven independent film production project) A Swarm of Angels really fascinate me:
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It’s a massively collaborating environment: Both resources (funding, tech support etc) and creativity come from the supporting crowd. The community aspects here are almost ridiculously strong! The movie is paid for and produced with support […]


50,000 angels will fund £1 million film: A Swarm of Angels

A Swarm of Angels is an ambitious project from an accomplished film-maker to produce a £1,000,000 movie with small donations from 50,000 people. The resulting film will be released under a CC license, and will be developed through feedback from the 50,000 angels who fund it.Matt Hanson is the impressario here, and he’s produced several […]