December 7, 2011
by Harald Sandø
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November 25, 2011
by Harald Sandø
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Did you know the Waking Up forest scene has been translated to French, Spanish and Chinese? And this has happened totally self motivated by the translators. I don’t have their names (only YouTube names), but they are hereby thanked for this. You can see the scene with translations here. To change language, press the little arrow to the right, and then the “cc” button. “cc” stands for ‘closed captions’.
If you have another language you want to contribute with, you can add that and send a file to be uploaded. Read more here if you want to translate.
November 18, 2011
by Harald Sandø
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Here’s another opportunity to vote for the Waking Up forest scene! Click the hearts to vote!
dragonawardnewtalent.com/en-us/filmview/waking-up/
The Dragon Award for New Talent at the Gothenburg International Film Festival is an award where anyone can upload a short film up to 10 minutes in length, and as many films you desire.
The Waking Up forest scene is entered as a short film, and can be voted upon by everyone who likes it. One can click some ‘hearts’ under the film clip to vote, Tweet it, Like it, Share it on FaceBook and of course, Watch it.
This is another opportunity to spread awareness about this open source film and about the world it will depict.
You can vote until 17th of january 2012. Share it with your friends so they can vote too! :)
Here’s the link to the film on the festival page:
November 8, 2011
by Harald Sandø
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Do you want to be a part of the core team of this film?
Right now, it’s a guy with an idea, a scene, and some story and script development, and some cool and very enthusiastic contributors (thank you guys, and keep it coming!). But of course, a film can not and should not be made by one guy alone. At least not a film like this. That’s why I seek more scriptwriters, but also; Producers.
What we need is a team of producers. One that can reach out into the film world for funding, cast and crew. One that can work on promotion and marketing. One that have extensive knowledge from the film industry, both the ‘old model’ and the ‘new model (internet)’.
I think a core team of 4 people is sufficient.
It doesn’t matter where you live in the world as long as you have a good internet connection. In fact, I’d like this collaboration to be as ‘international’ as possible. After all, this film is about the future of the whole planet, not just one country. What matters is that you have some, preferably a lot, of experience in the film industry, and preferably a good deal of contacts. If we, for instance, could make this a collaborative effort between several continents, it would be amazing.
Meetings will be held online most of the time, but we can meet in person several times at a suitable location on the planet.
I will start to receive applications as of now. If you are interested (or know someone who could be suitable) in a position in the core team, please send an email with your credentials and application to: haraldsando att gmail dot com
The positions are not paid at the moment, but as soon as we get sufficient funding, payment will be discussed.
So, if you want to be a part of the potentially ‘most important film of the century’, apply now! 
There’s no deadline on this application at the moment.
Let’s have fun creating this movie together!
Yours faithfully,
Harald Sandø
October 19, 2011
by Harald Sandø
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The forest scene from Waking Up movie is nominated to the Cinema Out Of Your Backpack festival award!
The judges have voted the submission “Waking Up” into the Official Selection which will be part of the Screening & Awards Show on November 9, 2011 in the Caligari Cinema on the Baden-Wuerttemberg Film Academy in Ludwigsburg, Germany.
The Official Selection will include the 10 highest rated submissions and the festival will publicly announce one entry per day on their website.
Awards will be presented in the following categories: Best Story, Best Directing, Best Cinematography, Best Technical Achievement “Out of Your Backpack”, Best Fiction, Best Documentary, Audience Award.
It’s not The Oscars, but we are just as happy!!! Aren’t we? Well, at least if we win one of the categories… 
October 13, 2011
by Harald Sandø
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It’s about time to bring up this rather crucial question.
Copyright, non-copyright or Creative Commons?
I am of course thinking about the Waking Up movie, and what kind of ‘copyright level’ we shall put on it.
Personally, I would like a 100% non-copyright on everything. The Creative Commons ‘CC0‘ have been suggested.
The reason I have kept the ‘all rights reserved’ is because of what other possible participants might say, since this is a collaborative work. Now that we have become a few, I think we are many enough to discuss this.
The CC0 rights level say’s this:
“Keep in mind that you cannot waive rights to a work that you do not own unless you have permission from the owner.”
The CC0 waiver is also a legal document taking all existing laws into regard. We might also want to ask ourselves if we really want to heed all existing copyright laws, which we actually do when using the CC0 public domain ‘license’. Personally, I want to abolish these laws. Laws that has made corporations, and not the artists, richer.
If we simply say that we don’t heed any copyright laws, and give this film a ‘non-copyright’ or ‘uncopyright’, we also make a statement in regards to the existing laws. We say that what we create is what it always has been; public domain. And then I mean the ‘public domain’ from the time there weren’t any copyright laws, and the term ‘public domain’ didn’t exist, because everything was public domain.
Another major problem with the CC0 or non-copyright in general in today’s world is that in film, there are so many participants. There are producers, distributors, directors, composers, actors, writers, etc. etc. It’s not just one or two persons. The film industry is basically is a jungle of copyright.
So far, I have said that ‘all collaborators have equal rights’ to this work. So, if we are setting a CC0/non-copyright public domain level, we have to at least get an email from all present participators, stating that they accept that, before we move on. After that is done, everyone else that comes later, be it writers, distributors, or what have you will simply have to accept that.
Don’t know how it will affect distribution, though. I DO want it to be possible for this film to be show in theaters around the world also, as I think the wider distribution it gets, the more people it reaches, and the better it is for the message.
A film can get millions of views on the web, like The Zeitgeist movies, but then theaters are sort of ‘out of the question’ after that. I’m thinking that if the film can get ‘normal distribution’ first, it can come out for free on the internet after. Not for monetary reasons, but to make it possible to spread the message in as many channels as possible. What do you think?
Honestly, I want this to both be as free and ‘uncopyrighted’ as possible, but at the same time be able to reach a big audience, AND, at the same time be able to somehow pay actors, CGI folks, and all the people who will have to work very hard to make a film like this become reality.
‘Copyright’ is kinda the ‘safeguard’ the industry uses to get it’s ROI. So, what will happen when it encounters a ‘CC0 movie’? Will it run away, or simply just ‘take it’s chances’… After all, a movie like this demands a lot of invested resources, both in time and, unfortunately; money.
Unless, of course, we manage to make this movie without money, but only with volunteer resources. It’s a stretch to think that when the movie Avatar had an estimated budget of $237,000,000, and the ‘low budget movie’ Moon had a budget on $5,000,000, and Waking Up movie obviously demands a lot of CGI and other resources as well.
For the moment, I really don’t know. I think that things will ‘pan out’ when we get a bit further down the road, but to discuss it now is definitely something we need to do.
Please give your comment!
October 9, 2011
by Harald Sandø
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New scenes added to The Script. They are all editable. Just go to The Script and follow the guidelines to be a contributor.
INT. AWEENAS PLACE – DAYTIME
Ben and Aweena comes to ‘her’ place. From the outside, it looks like a very modern building, aka a small Venus Project house. But on the inside, she has walls that look like wood painted with old white faded paint. She has a kind of ‘old style’ in her house, with old rugs on the floors and old furniture.
BEN
Wow, I wouldn’t guess these houses had wooden walls inside.
He touches the wall, and it feels like natural wood. He knocks on it, and it even sounds like wood.
AWEENA
(Smiling)
You like the walls?
BEN
Sure. I just didn’t expect these kinds of houses to have these kinds of walls inside.
AWEENA
Well, they don’t.
BEN
What do you mean ‘they don’t’?
AWEENA
These walls are not wood.
BEN
They are not wood?
AWEENA
No.
BEN
Well. What are they then?
AWEENA
It’s a morphing material. You can basically make it look, feel and sound like anything.
BEN
You can?
AWEENA
(Lightly)
Yeah. Would you like some other type of wall, maybe?
BEN
Oookay…
Aweena lifts her hands to control the wall structure through her lenses.
AWEENA
(Looking through wall types)
Let’s try…this.
Before she finishes her sentence, the walls turns into untreated dark gray concrete right in front of their eyes.
Ben backs off from the wall, startled.
BEN
(Looking with wide open eyes)
What the f… happened here!
AWEENA
It’s a different look….and feel. Touch it!
BEN
(touching the wall)
But…but…what…how can you do that?
AWEENA
It’s a morphing material. It’s on most inside walls now, so that people can choose what kind of feel they want inside.
BEN
You can choose the color too?
AWEENA
Of course.
She dials up a new color and suddenly the walls are blue.
BEN
Shit…wow…! Very cool. Very cool. I think the term ‘redecoration’ just took on a whole new meaning for me.
AWEENA
I’m sure it did… Still… I’ll turn it back to what it was. I kinda liked that.
EXT. CITY – DAYTIME
Ben meets a ‘natural’ for the first time.
THE NATURAL
Do you know what time it is?
BEN
Don’t you have lenses? Doesn’t it say in your…view?
THE NATURAL
No, I hate that stuff. I don’t like to have these technological devices attached to me at all times. I like to use the natural ways, my built in visualization ability. I like to hear my own thoughts.
BEN
Ah, you’re a natural.
THE NATURAL
I don’t care about those terms. We’re all ‘naturals’. We all have abilities to visualize and to hear sounds in our heads, don’t we?
BEN
Of course.
THE NATURAL
Yes, and that’s what I’m doing.
BEN
But are you communicating also?
THE NATURAL
You mean, like, telephatically?
BEN
Yeah.
THE NATURAL
Well, a little bit now and then, but it’s not very reliable. (don’t actually know what he say’s here. Probably something more profound).
INT. ROOM – DAYTIME
Ben and Aweena sits with a group of Aweenas friends.
BEN
But now that you don’t have any money and politicians anymore, who’s controlling the world?
CHRIS
(Teasingly)
Aweena is controlling the world. She’s telling everyone what to do.
AWEENA
(Hits him playfully in the arm)
Nooooo. Chris is controlling everything.
CHRIS
Yes, that’s right. I’m controlling everything.
Ben is smiling, looking at them teasing each other.
TOM
(To Ben)
Do you need to be controlled?
BEN
Well, um…I thought everyone needed to be controlled…
CHRIS
(smiling)
You can always be controlled, if you want to.
TOM
No, honestly. There are no one ‘controlling’ the world anymore. Like you had people before controlling the world, making decisions on behalf of others.
AWEENA
There aren’t anyone ‘sitting on top’ anymore.
TOM
We are controlling ourselves with something you would call ‘direct democracy’. We have a combination of humans and computers making the decisions.
BEN
So, computers are controlling the world?
TOM
No, absolutely not. Computers are only helping us. Just like computers were helping you, in your time. Controlling your money system, how much pay each worker would get, how much interest people would get on their money, or ships and airplanes with their autopilots controlling the direction, or your gps deciding your route. You decided the parameters, and the computer did the rest. It’s the same thing today.
CHRIS
We have computers helping us in everything from agriculture to distribution of food and…yeah….they are not controlling us. We are deciding the input, and the destination. We are deciding what we want, and the computers are determining the best way to get that. And as long as there aren’t any disputes between humans, we don’t need to be controlled. And there are very few disputes, now that we have access to everything we need.
TOM
Of course sometimes two families want to live on the same place. But it is pretty easy to determine who shall live there. It’s the one who came to the place first. First come, first serve. And no one can have a place as their possession if they don’t live there. So, if a family wants to live on a certain place, they can live there as long as they want. And when they move, and don’t use that place anymore, other people can use that place.
AWEENA
But of course, you can always build a new house close by, or if it is in an apartment building, you can build a new apartment. So, there can always be room for more people, but since there is a lot of land, there is very seldom people want to live exactly where someone else live.
CHRIS
There are so many places you can live. You can go and explore. Alone, or with your family, with friends. You can live so many different places during your lifetime.
AWEENA
The only thing politicians and the people ruling your world did, was to control how much money you got. And money was the illusion that you lived by, thinking that money was really needed to distribute abundance. But when we look back, it looks like it had an opposite effect. I suppose you saw that yourself, then. Some people were ultra rich, and had extremely much more than many others, while other were ultra poor, and didn’t have anything.
CHRIS
Even though we were all living on the same planet. We were all human beings born with the equal rights to the goods this planet has to offer. Today we simply manage our resources and create abundance for everyone. So there really is no need for any government.
TOM
If there are disagreements on something, we have consensus groups. If there is a disagreement about resources and what to do in a particular area, people simply come with their own suggestions. People meet directly, and discuss it. They are also aided by objective data from computers, if there is something that is possible to measure. If it is only based on feelings, they simply try and discuss, and then there are selected people mediating between them.
AWEENA
It becomes less and less. Before there were more discussions, until people really started to understand this new world, where people can actually live anywhere they want. And there were new places to live opening up, and new opportunities for life, everywhere, for everyone. Then there weren’t much more need for people to argue a lot about what do to when and where. They could of course argue about a public building. Where it should be. The shape, and such. Then we had competitions, like I think you had before, with architects, about how it should look. And then we simply voted on it.
September 16, 2011
by Harald Sandø
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I don’t picture the future as any ‘perfect’ place. The people in the future will probably have a lot of problems as well. And the idea I got today was that Ben can also help Aweena. Yes, Aweena is Bens guide in the new world, and she has a lot of knowledge and such. But she had a dream, wanting to be an actor, but she didn’t get into acting school where she wanted (or maybe something else), and she is depressed about that, but hides it from Ben and the world. But she spends so much time with Ben that he eventually finds out. She cries, etc. and Ben has to comfort her.
Here the film turns from Aweena helping Ben to Ben helping Aweena, showing that the people in this new world also have problems. Then both Ben and Aweena goes through a process of change, helping each other reaching their goals and fulfillment in life.
Exactly what is Ben’s problems and Aweena’s problems are, whether it is not getting into acting school or something else, can be discussed. This concept opens up for a lot of dramatic development in the film, also showing how institutions like ‘acting school’ or something else works in this new world.
What do you think?
I will add this to The Story document as well.
September 15, 2011
by Harald Sandø
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This is an addition to The Story document.
Building on The Transition, we have to have a Timeline developed. The future we are describing in a 100 years from now has gotten there through a long story of events and development, leading up to the moment in time where our characters will play.
There are several elements in this timeline. Technological and scientific development, social and value development, economic development (any huge breakdown?) and natural development (any huge natural disasters?).
About technology, I foresee that there will be an extreme development here, looking at the rate technology develops today. And in a 100 years, like today, ‘old’ technology will be in use together with new technology. So if they have flying antigravity cars running on some kind of free energy, they probably also still have mag-lev monorails developed 50 years earlier, but still in use. See what I mean?
So, I want to create a timeline where we can graphically see when the technology came and how long it lasted. The timeline might well go past a 100 years from now also, just to see the continuity in it, and to demonstrate that we are not describing a utopia, but a dynamic future based on a possible development.
This timeline might also be referred to by the characters in the film, in regards to what technology came when, them using ‘old’ and ‘new’ technology, new values vs. old, etc. etc.
August 26, 2011
by Harald Sandø
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This is a new addition to The Story document.
How did the world go from where we are today to the new world of a resource based gift economy? The best would of course be if the transition was a peaceful one. This also gives humanity an actual possibility in choosing this, rather than it being some kind of ‘forced through’ happening.
I see many circumstances today that point in the direction of a peaceful awakening among people. The Zeitgeist Movement is only one of them, consisting of several hundred thousand people from all over the world, wanting a new world and a new economy. And this is only the top of the iceberg. There are millions of ‘spiritual’ people in communities such as Art Of Living, Falun Gong and many others. All these work for a peaceful awakening of the population.
The riots in many parts of the world are lead by people who want freedom for everyone and peaceful democracies in their countries.
Some think that we might need huge calamities that wipe out bank records and such for us to be able to ‘start over’ with a clean slate.
Firstly I don’t think this necessarily will lead to the new world we want. Even if all bank records are wiped out, humanity will still go back to it’s former monetary system if no other system is known and most people are still asleep.
Actually, I think the only way we can get to the new world we picture in this film, is by people awakening an mass around the world to the possibilities of a moneyless society and take action towards it.
There will be riots and warlike situations (like there are already in several countries) around the planet. There will be more natural disasters forcing new thinking. And there will be a general fight between the rich and the middle class/poor about the sharing of the resources together with more severe global financial problems. All of this happens already. The question is only if people will wake up towards more love and sharing, or be lulled into the deeper sleep of consumption and competition.
In my eyes, the world can go in two opposite directions:
This film is about the when humanity wakes up and chooses the second alternative. Today, it looks like a 50-50 chance to me. Some might say that alt. 1 has the biggest chance, but that depends on how you see it and what kind of information you have. As I said, I see constantly a lot of proof and elements from alt. 2, but these are not conveyed in mainstream media, which still focuses mostly on alt. 1. So, alt. 2 is still in ‘the background’, but that doesn’t mean that it’s not there. To me, it is just as huge, or even bigger than alt. 1.
One good example is the reaction of Norway and the Norwegians after the tragedy in July 2011. The reaction from both politicians and the people after this massacre was to answer with more love, more openness, more diversity, more free speech, etc. Not more surveillance, more war and more hatred. Only a people that walks towards awakening can react like this. There are many other examples like this in the world. Continually people forgive and forget and move on. Only mainstream media have to catch up.
Again, I see a lot of evidence for the transition to be peaceful. And how long the transition will take is an open question. I don’t picture it happening in a ‘one swoop’. I rather see it as a gradual development where more and more people start to live without money, start to collaborate on local and global projects, both within technology and permaculture, and gradually develop the world we will see in Waking Up.
Thus, ‘the transition’ is not like a short revolution, but rather a longer evolution that happens gradually until critical mass is reached. Researchers claim that when an opinion reaches 10% in a population, it spreads very fast to the rest of the population. This means that about 600 million people will have to see the benefits of a moneyless society and a global resource based gift economy for it to happen, and this number is absolutely possible to reach, even in our lifetime.
This ‘moneyless economy’ is the new paradigm the world moves towards. We’ve been living in the ‘money paradigm’ for millennia now, just like we lived in the ‘flat earth’ paradigm for centuries. Except that the money paradigm has lasted a whole lot longer, and it is not finished yet. But just like when humanity discovered that the earth is not flat, we will discover that money and ownership is a lie, meant to divide and control the population of this planet.
So, I foresee a rather long way over the next 10-40 years towards 10% awareness and an explosion after that where we reach total awareness over the next 5-10 years.
So, in the film, let’s say that it took about 30 years from today to reach 10% and another 5 years to reach 100%. So, in around 2050, we will have 100% awareness and have gotten far towards a money and propertyless world. But many old values will still linger, and the technology will still not be top notch. After that we will have another 50 years to further develop this global society of love and sharing. And in these 50 years there will be a blazing global development both within technology and values.
From 2050 all wars and competition will have ended and there will be room for total global collaboration. In 2050, technology will still have a lot of potential for development, and so will human values. All the things that has happened in the area of technology until then (then within different corporations) will be merged and optimized now that true collaboration is possible.
New efficient cities are starting to be built. Permaculture landscapes have already been around for several years, but now they’re taking over totally, together with hydro- and aquaponics for food production. People are going back to the land all over the planet, while at the same time utilizing new technology to help both themselves and nature.
We can’t really say when ‘the end’ of the transition is, since development never stops. Thus, this film is not depicting any kind of utopia. No, it is simply depicting what the world can be like if humanity goes towards true sharing and collaboration and abandon the monetary system. The nearest we can call ‘the end’ of the transition is when our global population have reached close to 100% awareness in terms of understanding that sharing and giving is better, simpler and much more efficient than trading and hoarding.