After a summer and fall of partnering with several local media centers and filmmaking teams, Brookline Interactive Group (BIG) is thrilled to announce that their community filmmaking project, Crowdsourced Boston, will be screening the premiere of their remake of a classic film, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, at the Coolidge Corner Theatre on Wednesday, December 5th at 7:00 pm.
Briefly kicking off this year’s screening will be the founder of Crowdsourced Cinema, Al Williams, who is executive director of BIG’s sister station, Northampton Community Television (NCTV), where this community-based arts project began nearly five years ago to engage the community in filmmaking, collaboration and new creative projects. BIG has now independently run a franchise of Crowdsourced Cinema as Crowdsourced Boston for the past two years.
BIG welcomes the entire Brookline community and surrounding communities to attend. A large turnout is expected from several of the teams and media centers who contributed to this collaborative art project.
Crowdsourced Boston is a community arts project in which several local public access media centers and teams from the greater Boston area collaboratively create an original, full-length crowdsourced film. This year, each team produced their own one to a four-minute long scene from Back to the Future, which has been edited together to recreate the feature film, line for line and with similar shots.
Several members of the Brookline community will appear in this year’s film, as BIG took on the ambitious goal of recreating the famous parade scene from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off this summer. In addition to the many Brookline community members and friends of BIG who came out to participate in our big filming, several local businesses and organizations supported this effort, including the Brookline Police Department, Party Favors, the Brookline Library, Brookline Town Select Board member Heather Hamilton, Brookline Bank, Halliday Construction, and Viking Sports.
“Many locals have more access now to filmmaking equipment, but often want an opportunity to work collaboratively with other media makers and creatives. At BIG we offer a chance to work as a team, have fun, access professional equipment, and training programs, and learn filmmaking through remaking scenes from a famous film,” said Kathy Bisbee, executive director at BIG.
BIG’s Crowdsourced Boston project manager, Erin Kinney added, “Many of the participants return year after year to create their scene. It’s so much fun to watch the audience watching their own remade scene and cheering on their fellow participants.”
This is the second year that BIG has spearheaded Crowdsourced Boston, which is an offshoot of Crowdsourced Cinema, a public art project created in 2015 by Northampton Community Television (NCTV), a sister organization to local Brookline Interactive Group (BIG). Each year, Crowdsourced Cinema recruits filmmaking teams in their community to collaboratively remake a famous film. With Northampton’s encouragement, in 2017 BIG started partnering with several local media centers to create a Boston-area based crowdsourced film.
This year BIG has proudly partnered with Arlington Community Media, Inc., WACA-TV of Ashland, Belmont Media Center, Billerica Access Television, Boston Neighborhood Network, Bourne Community Television, Harbor Media of Hingham, Ipswich Community Access Media, LexMedia of Lexington, Marshfield TV, Peabody TV, Watertown Cable Access Corp, Westwood Media Center, Concord TV in New Hampshire, and several local filmmaking teams to make this year’s film.
To learn more about Crowdsourced Boston and purchase tickets in advance, please visit www.crowdsourcedboston.com.
