14 DAY TRIAL // YouTube surely no longer needs any confirmation for its motto: 'Broadcast Yourself' and the one of the persons to have experienced it for himself is called Fede Alvarez. He was was offered a $30 million contract for a Hollywood movie after having uploaded a short video to YouTube.
The man is from Uruguay and his movie presents giant robots destroying Montevideo, the capital of the country, featuring amazing special effects and explosions. "Ataque de Panico!" ('Panic Attack!') was uploaded in November 2009 and so far it has got almost 2 million views on YouTube. Its producer spent about $300 making the video and it lasts for 4 minutes and 48 seconds.
The Hollywood proposition came from Sam Raimi, the one who directed successful movies like Spiderman or Evil Dead series. The contract he offered to Fede Alvarez follows the line of the original short movie and is a science fiction that will be filmed in Uruguay and Argentina. It seems that Fede Alvarez wants to take things from the beginning and create a new plot for the story.
“I uploaded (Panic Attack!) on a Thursday and on Monday my inbox was totally full of e-mails from Hollywood studios,” Alvarez told the BBC's Latin American service BBC Mundo. “It was amazing, we were all shocked.” He also added that that created a precedent for all directors around the world, saying that the same could happen to any other ambitious person worldwide, as simply as posting a video on YouTube.
Still, it is worth mentioning that it was his talent that drew all the attention on Alvarez and his Panic Attack!, as well as the amazing number of views it got since it was first uploaded. Approximately 2 million views are bound to attract the attention of highly-placed people, whether it is about movie producers or any other category.