Wreckamovie

Wreckamovie was a collaborative film production platform to allow individuals to set up a film production and find a community to collaborate with, or find others' interesting film productions and become a collaborator in a worknet. Its aim was to make filmmaking easier, more effective and possible for everyone.

History
Star Wreck Studios Oy Ltd and Wreckamovie were created by a group of filmmakers from Finland, who in 2005 created the freely downloadable Star Trek parody movie Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning. It gained web fame for being created and distributed by a community of enthusiasts over the internet, and for its special effects made on a shoestring budget using standard home computers. The experiences of the group creating the aforementioned film, their first feature film, led them to develop a platform that was open and easy to use for everyone.

The termination of the platform was announced on its Facebook page on October 13, 2014.

Characteristics
Wreckamovie was considered a model example of the potential of Web 2.0 by Cisco Systems' Finland Oy. As a business model it presented the exact opposite of the traditional way of making movies. With it a community creates and distributes the film, and only then, once popularity has already been gained, profitability steps in.

The Wreckamovie model was built on online collaboration in service of the production of professional-quality audiovisual projects, such as short films and music videos to feature-length films. The model applied open source ideology and crowd sourced work and financing. Central to this was the creation of a community for each project, from which to request assistance in production tasks. It was designed to films together with its community, and thus foster interaction with the audience beginning with the development stage. The service did not distinguish between "professionals" and "amateurs", but emphasized enthusiasm and engagement.

The distribution model was intended to go beyond online distribution, targeting traditional movie screens to cell phones, leveraging the existing community supporting the project as a basis for viral marketing.

Wreckamovie was used for the Finnish horror film Sauna. It was also used for the production of the reference movie for the service, the feature-length scifi parody Iron Sky., which reportedly raised 12% of its budget through the platform. There were more than 300 active projects listed on Wreckamovie in 2009.

Awards
In 2008 the movie production community Wreck-A-Movie was elected the winner of the MindTrek Grand Prix 2008, €20 008. In October 2009 Wreckamovie was chosen among the 36 finalists in SIME conference's Rising Star of the North -competition, finishing 23rd overall.