Collaborative documentary with Creative Commons

When we worked on the documentary project we realized something very important: Jugger community is bigger than we think.

There are many more cores, teams and cities that currently know. This prompted us to ask if we really need a big budget or large investments actually favored us for create this documentary.

Thanks to the internet there are many alternatives to move (some better than others) audiovisual works, so after long investigation about what was the right way to bring the project we find a solution.

Make a collaborating documentary with Creative Commons. But what is Creative Commons?

It is a way to create an alternative way to create free copyright licenses.

Many people have noticed over time that the absolute right to copy does not help you in getting wide exposure or distribution you want. Many entrepreneurs and artists have concluded that prefer to rely on innovative business models rather than copyrighting fully entitled to make a profit on their creative investment. For others, it is a pleasure to contribute and participate in a common intellectual project. For whatever reason, it is obvious that many people in Internet want to share their work and to reuse, modify, and distribute their work with others on generous terms.

Creative Commons seeks to help people express this preference for sharing by offering everyone a set of licenses on the web at no cost.

Runtun Films is a small producer with only five members who have not only this project, we have many customers and extra work in the producer, for that reason could not embark on such a big project that we take off time for other jobs. So in this way and with your help we have found the way that to start the production.

We expect a lot of help! We need you!

Next week we will have a summary of the first day of shooting in Sweden in the hands of Alex Asensi.

See you!

Contributions and Support

These weeks many countries and players have expressed interest in sending and assist in our project in many ways.

Countries like Colombia, Sweden and cities such as Madrid and Alicante have offered to send videos working with us to expand the documentary material.

Any help is good. If you want to send audiovisual or any type materials, such as photographs, Vlogs, essays or news related Jugger send us a mail at yosoyjugger@gmail.com and we will contact you soon.

We work with you to tell you what we need and see that we can count on your help, so if you do not know where to start or do you just have to ask and we will help you with everything.

We remind you that we are creating a collage with all the logos of teams, we still lack many to finish!

This month we will be very busy organizing the trip to Sweden to record the material there of the tournament in Orebo and preparing the video that explains the entire project in English and Spanish for the crowdfunding campaign.

See you soon!

The Style

The documentary genre has numerous changes over the years, radically changing the way of documenting different stories.

Our documentary would not be different.

One of the most characteristic thing of this sport is that born of a film, which we seemed very important to tell it and display it with a high quality, mixing film parts with the reality of the sport.

Our main references are the documentaries Ai Wei Wei Never Sorry, Exit Through the Gift Shop or The artist is present. These are films with great personality and ways to tell their stories in chronological order with a beginning and an end like any movie.

Other examples of documentaries nearby to ur style its the sports themed documentaries Indie Game or Free to play.

If you have not seen any of these films I recommend you because they are great movies!

Next week we will come back to show you some material recorded by Colombian Jugger for the extra material for the documentary.

I remind you that you can send your videos to this email: yosoyjugger@gmail.com

See you next week!

The Production (2)

We are currently focusing on a production plan based on contributions and private funding.

The aids in Spain are a complicated. Take several years to reach the help that often once accepted are denied sometimes, leaving projects half done. We do not want to get to that point.

In a few months we will create a crowdfunding campaign. It is difficult to reach the goal, so we think twice before launching, since once the crowdfunding begin its not going back.

We need to create a lot of visual material as the Irish trailer or spots like I am Jugger. We need to reach more people and expect support of the players in this respect, with your help we will get the goal.

Soon we will have a video in which I will explain and provide details of the project, so you can have an overall view of how we carry out the project and how you can help.

The platform chosen for the campaign is Indiegogo because it suits our interests in the future as it offers many possibilities so that you can see the documentary on the internet and other platforms once finished.

It is a long and dangerous road, we hopefully not fail in this.

The next post will be based on the references of how we would like the documentary and other documentaries will build when we do ours.

I'll see you soon!

Alex Asensi.

The Production (1)

We are currently working on the exact budget would need to documentary and it is possible that we create a crowdfunding platform on Indiegogo to try to take part of the funding. But I will speak more about the crowdfunding next time.

For a year we have been dedicated to developing the script and get in touch with many countries. We also got in touch with David Peoples which Alex had the pleasure of speak on several occasions and gives us full support in this adventure. Soon we will call him again to tell we are back in action.

The production has four main parts:

- Ireland: want to visit this country to meet Setanta Jugger Club and if possible film the international tournament or trainings.
- Spain: We will follow the daily life of a spanish team in several national tournaments. This will be the centerpiece of the documentary.
- Germany: We will assist the international tournament in Berlin to film a lot of teams and follow the tournament from the start.
- USA: Visit to David Webb for interview about Blood Of Heroes and visit the Wasteland.

(OMG... 1:13 Look at that...)

The biggest problem is fit the dates and the cost of travels. We're on it.
Another big part of the budget we have it covered and is the equipment (cameras, lens, toys, etc). If you liked the spot #YOSOYJUGGER wait to see what we have prepared for you.

Next week will tell you more about how we are organizing the production and crowdfunding.

See you!
Alex Asensi

The screenplay

One of the biggest challenges that I faced when writing this documentary was to give a fresh touch and something different. It was clear that I did not want to be a typical or classic documentary. The project needed to have his own style, in the visual and narrative.

The good thing about writing a documentary is that the script is just a guide. When you decide to make a documentary you can control certain aspects of the story, then it is a story that takes the control and you just have to be there and shoot everything that happens.

The basics of the story are clear, we know where to go, talk and shoot. The best thing about this sport is that there are thousands of stories we can tell, but we must focus on a limited number of players. That we have prepared but its hard, there are a lot of information. Whatever I think I have a good sreenplay!

I want to talk about his origin, his present and how the players prepare and compete. I would even film matches as never before we had seen, conveying the emotion and the tension of that moments.

I wish you to sent me everything you think that it is interesting to create additional material for the documentary to this mail: yosoyjugger@gmail.com

Any help is welcome. Stories, photos, videos or all you want.

We would have many more things but would be doing my own story spoiler!

Next time I will speak of preproduction. Stay tuned for updates.

Alex Asensi

Hi juggers!

Hi all players jugger! My name is Alex Asensi and this is the daily production of the documentary "Jugger unknown sport"

For several months the project has been stopped due to lack of time on the part of our production, but now have returned to activate the documentary and every day we go a little further in the production.
Probably you will have some doubts. So let me explain some things to you.

What is #IAMJUGGER?

It is a documentary project directed and written by Alex Asensi  (@asensi_asensi), produced by Runtun Films Alicante with the help of the international community of the sport known as Jugger.

Like any documentary will chronicle the origins of alternative sport known as Jugger that mixes elements of fencing, rugby and hockey, born of the film "Blood of Heroes" and the activity in different countries like Spain, Germany and Ireland. We travel with a select group of players Jugger the World tournament in Berlin to try to win the maximum trophy that accredits this spectacular sport, unknown to most of the world.


What I will see in the documentary?

Following some Jugger players from around the world we will share the lives of these young athletes, their impressions and ways to play, capturing the passion they feel for the sport and show differences to other major sports.

We will see different explanations of the rules, styles and strategies used by different teams and as they prepare analyzing games or training together.


Who will handle roll it?

The production will be by Runtun Films Alicante (@runtunfilms) a production company based in Alicante and consists of several audiovisual professionals with experience in the world of film and short film.

When the film will be produced?

The process of preproduction, production and postproduction is very long. Our goal is to start filming in 2015 and end in September of 2016. During filming go selecting and assembling the material we have to accelerate the process.


You can help in many ways.

You can send me your doubts, your help to produce the movie, your team info, its logo, its history, photos and even videos of your travels to other countries or tournaments to runtunfilms@gmail.com.

If you want to help us financially you can send your contribution to. The maximum you can contribute is € 1,500, but any kind of contribution will help to advance this project.

If you have any business or know of someone who is interested in sponsoring the documentary please contact us to our mail!

Thank you all for your passion. 

See you soon! Next time I will explain the script and the preproduccion!

Alex Asensi