Can this film be sold?

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Foster Kane

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A colleague of mine made a movie about 5 years ago but due to personal stuff the film was shown. Anyways she is thinking of selling it or doing something with it.
Problem is that when she made the movie, it was with a bunch of friends and she never had anyone sign release forms. Some of these friends, she has lost touch with. Can she sell this film without the releases?
 
Foster Kane said:
That's what I thought too. Maybe if she obscured the faces she could get away with it.
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Boy I'll bet audiences would dig that... See the exciting new thriller No Release! Where every person's face and every location without a release is blurred beyond recognition! No Release, where even the murder weapon is blurred out because of logo placement! No Release, watch it at least 10 times to have any idea about what's going on! No Release! Available now on DVD...
 
David W. Jones said:
Boy I'll bet audiences would dig that... See the exciting new thriller No Release! Where every person's face and every location without a release is blurred beyond recognition! No Release, where even the murder weapon is blurred out because of logo placement! No Release, watch it at least 10 times to have any idea about what's going on! No Release! Available now on DVD...
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Just blame it on the focus puller... "Sorry, the whole movie was out of focus. You can't sue us..."
 
what makes you think anyone would buy it? Not saying it's not good enough to sell, just wondering if you have shopped it or have any offers.
 
This doesn't exactly sound like something that would sell anyway. Your friend may be a good director and will be able to show it to people to prove that she can direct actors or construct a scene, but I can't really imagine that a project that didn't even have deal memos signed by the cast & crew and that everyone was content to have sit on the shelf for half a decade isn't going to have at least a few very serious technical flaws. Also, quite a few film festivals require that the film be produced after a certain date.

If I were you, I would have your friend sit down, look at what movies are getting sold, and make a frank assessment of her film, comparing it to those movies. If it really is up to par, then I don't think it would be too much trouble to track down the talent, but my guess is it would be a waste of time that could be better spent working on her next project.

That being said, if all she wants is for it to have an audience, there's no reason she couldn't make some kind of festival run with it. I have no idea how flexible most programmers are on their year of production rules, but I'm sure you could find a few sympathetic ones if she just explains the situation.
 
Even if you blurred the faces, i'm sure (well sort of) the actors performance is covered ie the spoken word aka dialogue!
I could be wrong?!
 
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