The document discusses the history of open source movies, which are films produced and distributed using free and open source software methodologies with freely available source files. It provides examples of open source documentaries, animations, and feature films from 2000 to 2012, including the first open source documentary from 2000, collaborative documentaries from 2002 and 2010, and animated films created using Blender open source software from 2006 to 2012.

1. Open Source Movie
history

2. Free and Open Source Software
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Free and open-source software (FOSS) is
computer software that can be classified as
both free software and open source software.
That is,anyone is freely licensed to use, copy,
study, and change the software in any way,
and the source code is openly shared so that
people are encouraged to voluntarily improve
the design of the software.

3. Open Source Movie
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Open-source films (also known as opencontent films and free-content films) are films
which are produced and distributed by using
free and open-source software methodologies.
Their sources are freely available and the
licenses used meet the demands of the Open
Source Initiative (OSI) in terms of freedom.

4. Open Source Movie
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Documentary films
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Animation Short films
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Feature films

5. Year 2000
Documentary
Project Code Rush
Code Rush originally aired in 2000 as a TV
documentary

6. Year 2002
Documentary
Dancing to Architecture
Collaborative production. Vital Focus 2002.

7. Year 2006
Animation
Elephants Dream
Released on 2006. Created with the Blender
Open Source Software.

8. Year 2006
Full Feature Film
Boy Who Never Slept
Released on 2006. Created with Adobe Premiere Pro,
Final Cut and various others.

9. Year 2008
Animation
Big Buck Bunny
Released on 2008. Created with the Blender
Open Source Software.

10. Year 2009
Animation
Sita Sings the Blues
Released on 2009. An 80-minutes animated feature film based on
the renowned Indian Sanskrit epic The Ramayana. Sita Sings the
Blues is an amazing film especially considering the fact that the
whole movie has been created by a single person.

11. Year 2009
Documentary
Route 66
Became popular as Germany's first open-source film.
The license changed to CC by-sa in July 2009.

12. Year 2010
Animation
Sintel
Released on 2010. Created with the Blender
Open Source Software.

13. Year 2010
Speaking Movie
La chute d’une plume
Released on 2010. Created with the Kdenlive
Open Source Software.

14. Year 2010
Full Feature Film
Valkaama
Released on 2010. Collaborative project

15. Year 2012
Animation
Tears of steel
Released on 2012. Created with the Blender
Open Source Software.

16. Open Source Movie History
Name
Type
Released
Project Code Rush
Documentary
2000
Dancing to
Architecture
Documentary
Collaborative production. Vital
Focus 2002
Elephants Dream
Animation Short Film
On 2006, Blender Open source
Boy Who Never Slept
Full Feature Film
On 2006,Source files available
under CC by 2.5
Big Buck Bunny
Animation Short Film
On 2008, Blender Open source
Sita Sings the Blues
Animation Film
On 2009,Created by Nina Paley
Route 66
Documentary
On 2009, First movie providing
sources.
Sintel
Animation Short Film
On 2010, Blender Open source
La chute d’une plume
French Speaking
Movie
On 2010, Kdenlive Open source.
Valkaama
Full Feature Film
On 2010, Collaborative project
Tears of steel
Animation Short Film
On 2012, Blender Open source