Open letter to the super fantastic MOVIE EXTRA Webfest team:
Regrettably I must inform you of an unresolved copyright issue on entry # 51 Henry & Aaron’s Web Series.
This material has merely changed its name from the project I remain producer of Catching Up! with Henry & Aaron on which I worked with the present creatives last year. We had success with Screenwest’s T-Vis scheme where discussions with broadcasters were initiated. A disagreement between the parties forced us to withdraw the project from this scheme. In the interim we have been unable to come up with any satisfactory settlement and the copyright in the project remains unresolved.
The filmmakers are well aware of my position. I’ve informed funding bodies and broadcasters of this impasse and stressed that the project CAN NOT be considered before this dispute is settled. Normally I’d be lenient on amateur filmmakers and put it down to their inexperience. However I’ve since found out they acted in a similar manner on this very project with Media World Pictures. To make matters worse one of the creatives has threatened my property, my friends and attempted to physically assault me. So in this case especially I’m in no mood to look the other way when it comes to our shared intellectual property.
I request that this entry be withdrawn from the competition and/or the judges are made completely aware that at present no clean chain-of-title exists here.
Sincerely
Jimmy Jack (aka Jimmy The Exploder)
Writer/Co-Producer – The Black Balloon
Producer – Henry and Aaron’s Perfectly Adequate Webisode Series
Writer/Director/Producer – Sex, Brains & Rock ‘ n Roll
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