If you wanna make movies, join the crowd

When I was nine years old, I made a stop action movie with my dad's camcorder and couple of G.I. Joe action figures. Is nine too old to play with toys? Nevermind. Anyway, I made this movie and it totally rocked. My mom said so. I created a storyline where the Joes had to bust this guy out of a South American prison because he had key information on a cocaine drug lord or something. I even made this styrofoam prison with kabob stick bars and a breakaway wall (for when they busted him out). I carved the wall into tiny bricks of styrofoam and rigged it with thread so that when I pulled the string the whole wall came down. A puff of baby powder sealed the effect of C-4 demolitions.

I'd love to make a movie today, but unfortunately I'm lacking in time, money, and I also sort of don't have any talent for it : ) Maybe I could pull off a Clerks, but unfortunately as an adult you have to impress more people than your mom. Sounds like a broken dream, eh? Fear not my friends. Now I, you, or anyone with the mere desire can participate in a full-length feature film that will one day appear in actual theaters.

It's called A Swarm of Angels, and it is the first (that I'm aware of) open source movie project. Participants not only fund the movie collectively, but also participate in the creative process of writing it, filming it, and releasing it. It's the entire process of making a Hollywood film, but the tasks are crowd sourced to a global community of members. Right now A Swarm of Angels is moving into phase 3 of 5, producing the trailer for the movie and completing the development. Even if you don't get in on this one, I'm sure there's more to come.

Fulfill your childhood dream of making a movie. Check out A Swarm of Angels