Earlier this week, a group of independent filmmakers decided to put their 35-minute film on YouTube.
Wong Fu Productions‘ Agents of Secret Stuff has since performed fabulously, garnering more than 2 million views for the full film itself and nearly 2.7 million views for the trailer.
Wong Fu Productions is a Chinese-American, San Diego-based outfit that has some YouTube experience under its belt already. The crew’s YouTube channel has 614 million upload views to date.
WFP co-founder Philip Wang told YouTube that the entire movie “was shot in one intense week this past summer.
“Drawing from the talents of a few dedicated friends, the crew was no bigger than ten and was usually just the three of us from Wong Fu Productions (WFP), plus the actors. There was no big budget, no big company, no big crews or equipment behind the shoot – just us, a DSLR camera, and the desire to do something major and to support each other.
In a time when YouTubers are still foreign to industry studios and decision makers, we didn’t want to wait around for someone to give us the green light. We just went ahead and did it ourselves.”
It’s not unheard of for indie filmmakers to use YouTube as their platform of choice. In fact, when the video site experimented with film rentals earlier this year, all the filmmaker participants were indies.
Check out the trailer above and tell us in the comments what you think of the quality of the production, especially as it compares to other viral content on YouTube. Do you think indie film in general is trending toward the Internet?
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