Don Hertzfeldt - World of Tomorrow and It's Such a Beautiful Day Blu-ray

[SilentDawn]

Don Hertzfeldt is one of my favorite modern filmmakers, being both an honest visionary and a startling storyteller. Now, after his works only being available Digitally and through DVD, he has a plan to bring WORLD OF TOMORROW and IT'S SUCH A BEAUTIFUL DAY on Blu-ray through Kickstarter.

Here's some quotes on his plans:

hi everyone!

as an independent filmmaker, one of the challenges these days is simply figuring out *how* people want to watch your work. it turns out you can't just throw a VHS out there anymore and be done with it. we now find ourselves juggling theatrical tours, DVDs, downloads, netflix, itunes, vimeo, hulu, brain-to-brain uplinks, and more.

we've never released a bluray though and lately a lot of people have been asking for one... with the animated feature film IT'S SUCH A BEAUTIFUL DAY and the new short WORLD OF TOMORROW being the two most requested titles.

with crowdfunding though, things get kind of interesting: we can make the bluray that everyone's been asking about but we'll only need to print as many copies as people sign up for... then we can ship them all out in one go and be done with it. it cuts out the long-term commitments for us with storage and distribution and puts a blu in your hands much sooner than otherwise possible.

this $ total approximates the minimum number of copies we'd like to produce and ship in order to make the production and remastering endeavor worth going through. we'd rather not make the disc at all until we're sure there's enough people actually interested in it. the blus will be authored by the same team in burbank who created our last few DVD releases and professionally replicated at a technicolor-affiliated lab. as usual, i'll personally oversee the remastering and color correction process.

The Blu-ray will also include a new interview, a teaser for a new secretive animation project by Don, and other goodies that can't be announced just yet.

More info is here.

Oh, and excuse the title mishap, maybe the mods can change it to this: "Don Hertzfeldt - World of Tomorrow and It's Such a Beautiful Day Blu-ray"