There are many ways to produce a movie. Leave it to the Europeans to come up with them. Foremost there is the infamous Uwe Boll using a clever combination of investors and German tax dodges. Another is WreckAMovie.com.

For those who have missed the internet sensation Star Wreck, a Finish indie parody on… well, you know… it was produced and financed by the very talented film makers Samuli Torssonen and Timo Vuorensola and their fans. The success of the film brought about the idea to create a means of producing movies through collaboration.

They went ahead and created a site with the very tongue-in-cheek name wreckamovie.com to give movie makers a chance to post their ideas and creations. The concept behind the site is not so much looking for a budget — although that is a possibility as well — but to create and further a projects through ideas from other individual. It’s a new type of participatory cinema made possible only through the internet. Where classic film production focuses on the final product, participatory cinema focuses on the process of making movies and its meaning on the participators.

The pet project of Samuli Torssonen and Timo Vuorensola, the sci-fi Nazis-in-Space comedy Iron Sky is being produced in this way and is already half-way through its shoot, having gotten a second round financing boost just recently. In case you’ve missed the fantastic trailer that’s been circling the net, find it below, a primary example of what can happen if people work together.

Go ahead, give it a shot. If you have an interesting idea, make it happen. Or wreck someone else’s film.

Wreck A Movie