Tommy: Well, everyone has a different opinion. What’s your position in the ongoing ‘piracy debate’? Others think that it has close to no impact. TF: The MPAA has often argued that the movie industry loses billions of dollars through piracy. Since I use BitTorrent, I wanted to give back to the community, that was part of the motivation is releasing American Prince via BitTorrent. I think BitTorrent and steaming sites like YouTube are completely responsible for that phenomena. It seems more popular today that when it came out in 2001. Waking Life is a movie that I produced that is a pretty interesting example of that. I feel for many people and places, downloading is the only way they will get to see my movies. For me as a filmmaker it is most important that the work I make get seen. My movies tend to get limited releases and are more of the cult film status, so the initial release is often overlooked or simply the movie is unavailable in many areas. I think it is great, especially for filmmakers of niche movies. I live in Amsterdam now, so the only way I can keep up with some of my favorite shows, events, and films is to download. In fact, part of the reason I am releasing American Prince on BitTorrent is for the hope that it breaks the top 100. Tommy: Really, A Scanner Darkly was successful on BitTorrent? GREAT! I wish it was more so, I have to admit, I get jealous when I look at the top 100 downloads on the trackers and I don’t see my movies. Were you aware of that at the time? What do you think of people who use BitTorrent to download the film? ![]() TF: First off, A Scanner Darkly – which you produced – became quite successful on BitTorrent and was downloaded by hundreds of thousands of people. This of course caught our attention and we decided to catch up with the director to lear a little more about his motivation to embrace BitTorrent.įilm director and producer Tommy Pallotta In return, Pallotta is giving the film away for free on BitTorrent. Since Scorsese’s original documentary is a rarity nowadays, Pallotta had to ‘pirate’ much of his material on BitTorrent sites and YouTube. With American Prince Pallotta continues the saga. In American Boy Scorsese documented the life of his friend Steven Prince, who was also the inspiration for one of the best known scene’s in Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction. It’s a follow up documentary to film legend Martin Scorsese’s cult-classic American Boy that was shot more than thirty years ago. Pallotta’s latest work is something totally different though. With more than a million downloads, the movie earned a place in our list of Top 10 most downloaded movies four weeks in a row. ![]() His last film, A Scanner Darkly starred Keanu Reeves and was a smash hit on BitTorrent. ![]() In film circles, Pallotta is known for his outstanding animation work that defines most of his work thus far. Being this far away from his home country is one of the reasons why he became a BitTorrent enthusiast, no further explanation needed for most TorrentFreak readers. Tommy Pallotta is an American film director and producer from Texas, currently living in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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