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Thanks for Stealing My Film
If you’ve ever partaken of a torrent site, you already know that some of the downloads are there illegally, and that technically you’re breaking the law. But guess what? There’s actually a filmmaker, Eric D. Wilkinson, who’s thanking pirates for downloading his film. That’s because the onilne piracy has apparently translated into sales for him. Wow.
Check out the Man From Earth site to get more info about this screenplay - conceived in the early 1960s by science fiction writer Jerome Bixby - about an immortal who has walked the Earth for 14,000 years.
Man From Earth stars John Billingsley (Star Trek), Ellen Crawford, William Katt, Annika Petersen, Richard Riehle, David Lee Smith (pictured above), Alexis Thorpe, and Tony Todd.
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We, the filmmakers behind “Jerome Bixby’s The Man From Earth” understand that this is a film many sci-fi fans just couldn’t wait until 11/13/07 to see. And we especially understand that if you live outside the United States, you’ve had absolutely no way of knowing when this film might be coming to your local cinema, video store, or TV… if ever! Indeed, all international rights to the movie are still available.
And as a result you may have downloaded the film from one of the many torrent (or other) sites available. Chances are, you paid nothing to do so. But please understand that we are just some independent filmmakers who put everything we had into our little movie, and you really hurt us directly when you downloaded the movie illegally.
Judging from the postings at IMDB.com, we see that the vast majority of you quite like the film; many of you even love the film and have watched it repeatedly.
We made this movie with a great deal of love, sacrifice and effort on a low budget. But as low as the budget was, it was still a LOT of money to us, as well as to the people who trusted us with their investment to go ahead and make such an unusual, even controversial film.
So we are making an unusual request… asking you to return the love, if you will:
Please visit www.manfromearth.com, and make some sort of donation in exchange for the enjoyment our movie brought you. It could be fifty cents, it could be fifty dollars. Perhaps you feel the average weekly video store rental is a fair amount. Whatever it is, it might be small to you, but if every single person who downloaded the movie — heck, if only the people who LIKED the movie — donated a few dollars, would certainly help get us to breakeven. Just go to www.manfromearth.com and click on “donate” (you don’t even need to have an account). The address to use is ewilkinson100@comcast.net.
The money you donate will go DIRECTLY towards everone who worked on and invested in our dream. And who knows… if we ever do break even on “Jerome Bixby’s The Man From Earth”, maybe we can go make another intelligent, thought-provoking film.
Thank you very, very much for your consideration.
Sincerely,
Eric D. Wilkinson - Producer & Richard Schenkman - Producer / Director
Hi Eric, thanks so much for the comment. Without using a torrent site (which I have not done), I have no idea how to get a copy of your film to review here. I just made a US$20 donation via PayPal, through the owner of this site, who is an aspiring filmmaker as well. Good luck with everything.