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April 21, 2011

St. Nick DVD Giveaway

St. Nick's theatrical bow begins tomorrow, and to celebrate I want to give away some DVDs to audience members at the cinema this weekend. However, this is complicated by the fact that, although the film does have distribution, is is not yet commercially available, and we're not quite sure when it will be made so.

So instead of giving away the official DVD, I've decided to make a few homemade editions to hand out.

Each one of these limited edition copies of the film is completely handcrafted. The cases are handsomely assembled from recycled materials, and will be signed and numbered. Each is individually illustrated and lovingly teastained. Particularly unique about this edition is that the discs themselves are hand encoded - each 1 and 0 that makes up the contents of the DVD has been typed, by hand, by myself, in a text file.

As for the contents of the DVD, it will contain St. Nick and, at the very least, a commentary track from myself and the stars of the film. There may be more; I prepared a slew of extra features for the real DVD release, and if I can fit any on without compromising the compression of the master file I have on hand, they'll be there. If they're not, never fear; whoever receives one of these handmade copies will also be mailed a copy of the final release, when it's actually available.

To receive one of these very limited editions, simply come to any of the Friday or Saturday shows at the ReRun Theater and participate in whatever contest we put together. It might be as simple as a drawing - I'm not quite sure yet. All I know is that by the end of the weekend they'll be out of my hands; I'll post the names of the winners and the artwork for each cover next week, so that they (the winners, and my attempt at illustration) can live in on posterity!

Posted by David Lowery at April 21, 2011 3:05 AM