Now and again we come across stories around the Internet that are so inspiring that you just can’t help but be inspired.
Remember not so long ago singer Susan Boyle from Britain’s got talent topped the YouTube charts with over 120 million hits worldwide? No one saw that coming did they?
Well now check this out.
An unknown producer from Uruguay by the name of Fede Alvarez, uploaded a short 5 minute film called “Ataque de Panico” or Panic Attack, onto YouTube last month for a bit of fun apparently.
The film, which has no dialogue, is all about giant robots and UFOs invading Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay. There’s nothing spectacular about that, or is there?
Alvarez thought he would publish it on the popular video site to see if he could get a few hits, after all it was his own small company’s creation and it had all been done on a budget of only $300.
Little did Alvarez know what was about to happen next. In only a matter of weeks the video became a YouTube sensation and clocked up more than 1 and half million hits and the hit counter is rising all the time.
“I uploaded (Panic Attack!) on a Thursday and on Monday my inbox was totally full of e-mails from Hollywood studios” he told the BBC’s Latin American service BBC Mundo.
“It was amazing, we were all shocked.”
I bet they were. It just goes to show how you never can tell what the secret ingredient is that will capture the public’s imagination and catapult a previously unknown name into the world arena.
I mean they laughed at Susan Boyle to start with didn’t they?
Well now Alvarez has been offered a whopping $30 million Hollywood budget to produce a Sci Fi movie that will be shot in Uruguay and Argentina.
The film will be sponsored by Hollywood Movie Director Sam Raimi who has biggies like Spiderman and Evil Dead films under his belt.
“If some director from some country can achieve this just uploading a video to YouTube, it obviously means that anyone could do it” said Alvarez.
Absolutely, the trouble is, there’s no way of knowing in advance what is going to be a YouTube hit and what isn’t.
I guess that’s what makes it all the more exciting.
Well done Alvarez.
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