Reluctant media king, author, blogger and web host of the Liam O’Donnell online empire, Jim Munroe is holding a very special screening of his lo-fi classic-to-be, Infest Wisely, to celebrate the release of the DVD of the movie.

Update: the screening is May 15th, not May 8th as I previously thought due to a severe lack of coffee and posting – always a bad combination.

Check out the trailer below:

Jim is one of those unique writers that is able to distill the hype, horror and humor of our evolving tech-obsessed culture and boil it down to reveal the civil liberty erasing bones beneath the glossy 2.0 surface. And he does it with little or no money and with a completely open source and creative commons powered agenda that makes a creative like me stand back in wonder. The route he’s taken to produce and release Infest Wisely is only the latest example.

From the Infest Wisely site:

INFEST WISELY is a feature length movie in seven episodes, each with different directors but all written by novelist Jim Munroe. Munroe met the six other directors through his Novel Amusements project, an annual DVDzine tagged “unapologetically lo-fi, inventive short video” by the Toronto Star. “I didn’t want to work with just one of them for an entire feature,” he said, “It seemed too big of an imposition. Plus, each of them had a special talent or ability I was excited to write for.”

So, each director took a chunk of the story and made it their own. The result is a feature film with one writer’s voice and six unique visions. A great model for no-budget writers & directors out there.

When it came to releasing the movie, Jim decided that free was the way to go. As Jim says: “It was free to make, so it’s free to watch.” Released under a Creative Commons license, anyone can watch all six chapters on the Infest Wisely site.

Or you can come out to the Royal Theatre tonight, see the whole movie on the big screen and grab your own DVD copy.

Hope to see you there.