Alan Chan was the guest for this Space Show program. Alan recently completed the movie, "Postcards From The Future." From the description on the film's website, www.postcardsfromthefuture.com, the movie is a "return to space epic large-format feature motion picture that explores our future in space - seen through the eyes of an engineer working to build a base on the moon, and who occasionally sends video postcards back to his wife and family on Earth." Alan received many listener questions about the film, space films in general, marketing space films and the attraction of space films in film festivals here and in other countries. We also talked about getting a film such as this on a known TV channel such as the Discovery Channel. Alan was interested in listeners with film marketing expertise as he would like to expand the marketing opportunities for the film Listen to what he says and if you are interested, contact him. Several listeners asked about filmmaking in general, film school, working on a set, and some of the other films he has worked on including the newly released "Beowulf." The film is now available on DVD for $15.99 at www.createspace.com/239006. There are also links to the DVD using www.postcardsfromthefuture.net. If you want to send additional questions or comments to Alan, you can do so at either info@postcardsfromthefuture.net or Alan@postcardsfromthefuture.net. Toward the end of the interview, a listener asked Alan about making money with this film and I asked about the possibility of Sony Pictures Imageworks distributing the film. This led to a discussion about making money and the bottom line for the film. We compared this to investing in a NewSpace company. The bottom line has to be there, the space theme or subject is not sufficient to carry the day for either a film or a different type of space investment.
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