Coolidge Corner To Show Special BIG Back To The Future Screening

BROOKLINE, MA — Brookline Interactive Group (BIG) is excited to announce not one, but two local filmmaking events coming up this fall for the Brookline community and beyond.

On Wednesday, Nov. 29 at 7 p.m., BIG will be screening Back to the Future (the premiere of Crowdsourced Boston’s remake of the classic film) at the Coolidge Corner Theater.

BIG welcomes the entire Brookline and nearby communities to attend. A large turnout is expected from several of the teams and media centers who participated in this collaborative arts project.

Crowdsourced Boston is a collaborative community arts project in which several local public access media centers -- including Somerville Media Center, Belmont Media Center, LexMedia of Lexington -- and teams from the greater Boston area create an original, full-length crowdsourced film. This year, each team produced their own one to four minute long scene from Back to the Future, which have been edited together to recreate the feature film, line for line and with similar shots.

Crowdsourced Boston an offshoot of Crowdsourced Cinema, a public art project created in 2015 by Northampton Community Television (NCTV), a sister organization to local Brookline Interactive Group (BIG), a community media arts center in Brookline. Each year, Crowdsourced Cinema recruits filmmaking teams in their community to collaboratively remake a famous film. With Northampton’s encouragement, this year BIG partnered with several local media centers to create a Boston-area based crowdsourced film.

If you did not get the chance to participate in Crowdsourced Boston, BIG is offering another local filmmaking event:

Thursday, Oct. 26 at 5:p.m. The second annual 11 Day Film Sprint, which promotes more filmmaking in the local community will kick off Oct. 26. This film sprint is a fun filmmaking event in which participants have 11 days to write, direct, film, act in, and edit a 1-5 minute long film.

Everyone in the Brookline area and surrounding community is welcome to create a team and sign up to participate in the sprint. There are no age restrictions and no prior film or editing experience is required. The sprint kicks off at 5 p.m., at which point each team will be emailed a line of dialogue and a randomly assigned film genre. After the Kickoff, each group will have until 11:59 p.m. on Nov. 6 to create their 1-5 minute film.

BIG’s team of judges will review all submitted films and award the winners at a screening of the finalists on Thursday, November 9.

Brookline Interactive Group will provide participants with equipment and studio space on a first come, first served basis. In order to use these resources, participants must become a member and receive basic training on the equipment.

To sign up to participate in the film sprint as a group, please visit: 11dayfilmsprint.com. If you have any additional questions please contact Erin Kinney at erin@brooklineinteractive.org or call BIG at 617-731-8566.

About Brookline Interactive Group (BIG):
Brookline Interactive Group (BIG) is an integrated media and technology education center and a community media hub for Brookline, MA and the region. BIG facilitates diverse community dialogue, incubates and funds hyperlocal storytelling, arts, journalism and technology projects, and serves over 500 youth and adults annually through innovative classes and partnerships. BIG offers extensive multimedia training, Virtual Reality (VR) and 360-video cameras and training, access to high quality filmmaking equipment, production grants, and provides low-cost professional media services to non-profit organizations, education partners, businesses, and to local government.