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Ddroid · Post by **Ddroid** » Thu Feb 04, 2010 5:46 pm

Cool, going to be excited for this one~

Keizo · Post by **Keizo** » Thu Feb 04, 2010 5:52 pm

Happy happy happy! Joy joy joy!

MannequinMachinist · Post by **MannequinMachinist** » Thu Feb 04, 2010 10:22 pm

Exquisite! This film definitely has promise.

It'll be interesting, though, to see whether ID will stumble down the same pitfalls as other "What Measure Is a Non-Human" and "Just a Machine" films that have tackled these conventions in the past; I'm already seeing countless similarities between this and Spielberg's A.I., beyond just the title, for instance, and I thought that film was a mixed bag, myself.

Still, I think the film's premise is very interesting. My personal preferences aside, I'd have no idea if I'd ever replace a partner with a fembot/bio-droid replica in their image without her conscious consent, especially knowing that her mind wouldn't also be transferred over into the robot body...does anyone else struggle with this dilemma when it comes to transformations?

DrFranklin · Post by **DrFranklin** » Fri Feb 05, 2010 2:27 am

the premise seems similar from what I can see. Sakura was a tragedy, not sure where they are going with this movie.

jolshefsky · Post by **jolshefsky** » Fri Feb 05, 2010 7:49 am

I'll buy it ... if nothing else for the robotic scenes.

Some of the robo-vision reminds me of the Synthetica demo video on Vimeo, but the names don't line up.

tectile · Post by **tectile** » Sun Feb 07, 2010 7:01 am

Can't wait for this one.

bilbo · Post by **bilbo** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 12:47 pm

Looks good

keraptis · Post by **keraptis** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 1:00 pm

I simply can't imagine it ending well for the robot or the guy who buys her.

But it does look very interesting ... I'll probably watch it.

gyn2010 · Post by **gyn2010** » Wed Mar 17, 2010 11:43 pm

Website is working now...

http://nicedayinc.com/id/main.php

gyn2010 · Post by **gyn2010** » Thu Oct 21, 2010 1:41 pm

I've found an interesting fragment of whole movie:

http://fixednoise.com/mp3/kathie/KathieTalbot.mov

Enjoy

Keizo · Post by **Keizo** » Thu Oct 21, 2010 7:34 pm

That clip was really awesome and all, but I couldn't help but notice that the guy looked like Keanu Reeves and the Mac guy had a baby.

Delosian · Post by **Delosian** » Fri Oct 22, 2010 2:43 pm

Anyone know the release date? That actress is smokin' hot. I like the full frontal panel removed. Nice work.

tectile · Post by **tectile** » Sat Oct 23, 2010 11:11 am

gyn2010 wrote:I've found an interesting fragment of whole movie:

http://fixednoise.com/mp3/kathie/KathieTalbot.mov

Enjoy

My hat's off to you sir, that's a great find and thanks for posting it.

jolshefsky · Post by **jolshefsky** » Wed Dec 01, 2010 6:45 pm

Apparently NiceDay, Inc. took down the "ID" page and their home page has not much but a clips reel. The effects for ID (the robot insides shot) is around 2:05 to 2:10.

gynoneko · Post by **gynoneko** » Wed Dec 01, 2010 7:36 pm

EXCELLENT finds! I hope to see more of these! Totally awesome!

solo351 · Post by **solo351** » Thu Dec 02, 2010 8:07 am

Was this movie ever released, i.e., is it possible to purchasea copy somewhere?

fnord · Post by **fnord** » Thu Dec 02, 2010 8:17 am

solo351 wrote:Was this movie ever released, i.e., is it possible to purchasea copy somewhere?

I've been looking for it now and than but haven't found anything. Love to buy it but don't know who produced or distributed it.

Svengli · Post by **Svengli** » Thu Dec 02, 2010 3:10 pm

It seems the film has been submitted to this festival:

http://www.tcif3.com/2010-Films.html

The trailer is also still on Vimeo
http://vimeo.com/13529641

(youtube also if you search)

I believe the way short films work is that they first make the "circuit" of film festivals and only then are released. I don't think that there's a market for 25 minute films, so I would wild speculate that in a year or so the film will be put on Youtube or somewhere.

That's the pattern the Michael Risinger Film "Replacement" followed and this seems like simply a longer development of the same idea - not to say that's bad. The film looks really great and I absolutely want a copy of it.

Svengli · Post by **Svengli** » Wed Dec 08, 2010 4:15 pm

And the niceday site is back up, with a Gallery, (same link as previously).

It looks fabulous.

gynoneko · Post by **gynoneko** » Wed Dec 08, 2010 4:45 pm

Svengli wrote:And the niceday site is back up, with a Gallery, (same link as previously).

It looks fabulous.

Sweet! Thanks for the link!

infidel · Post by **infidel** » Thu Dec 09, 2010 11:58 am

fnord wrote:
solo351 wrote:Was this movie ever released, i.e., is it possible to purchasea copy somewhere?

I've been looking for it now and than but haven't found anything. Love to buy it but don't know who produced or distributed it.

I search this movie but find nothing; Search torrent, rapidshare, hotfile, google, distributed bla bla bla...

this film wonderful

Svengli · Post by **Svengli** » Thu Dec 09, 2010 4:54 pm

Like I said earlier,

The film is still showing at festivals (you see a festival where play in earlier link). I'm only guessing, mind you, but my guess is that the film will be released after it stops being shown at festivals.

It's frustrating but that's how the film world works.

Karel · Post by **Karel** » Thu Dec 09, 2010 11:57 pm

Films show at festivals until they are either picked up by a distributor or no festival will show them anymore.

The really big film festivals are Cannes (which is Industry-Only), TIFF, and Sundance; after that come Berlin, San Francisco, Telluride, NYC, etc. Virtually every municipality/locale has one now, which I used to think was absolutely useless, but I now understand that every festival, however small, provides a forum for independent filmmakers to show their work, and so is valuable.

However, the chances of anyone important seeing a movie at one of the lower-tier festivals and then deciding to fund its distribution is next to zero. And you will very, very quickly run out of festivals willing to screen a movie that's been screened at numerous other festivals already. So I think I.D. has almost no chance of ever being commercially distributed.

If we're lucky, the filmmakers will eventually decide to press their own DVDs and sell directly via their website (as Sydney Film School graduate Paul Leeming did with his thesis film Eve several years ago). That's one way to recoup the expense of making the film. But there are alternatives: bankruptcy, for example. Or keeping your day job. Or, for the very committed, keeping the film under wraps until you can make another, which then (you hope) gets distributed, which then (you hope) increases interest in the last film.

Svengli · Post by **Svengli** » Fri Dec 10, 2010 2:48 am

Karel is right, I believe.

Keep in mind this is a 25 minute Sci Fi film, so the chances of normal distribution are really, really small. It seems to be mainly showing at regional Sci Fi festivals. There's at least one further one it's been submitted to.

Keep in mind that nicedayinc seems to be a special effects/editing shop, so the producer already has a film job. My guess is that Nice Day probably doesn't depend on ID's success at all.

I would again guess that the film was basically some combination of personal project and demonstration/resume-builder.

Either way, I would expect that when the film run is done he will be distributing the thing.

andoroido · Post by **andoroido** » Fri Dec 10, 2010 3:25 am

Reminds me,

Another indie I eagerly await, someday. someday.

www.2bmovie.com

Starring a hot asian as the gynoid/synthetic/copy?
plus Dexter's DAD!!!

ID

American version of Sakura?

:)