Unizaba kicks butt on Banff North America Tour

system · June 19, 2002, 12:38pm

Hi,

Just though I’d share some cool news I just got from a coordinator at the Banff Mountain Film
Festival.

Last year Skilletto was #2 in popularity on the Banff Mountain Film Festival North American tour,
in terms of number of screenings. And this year…

Unizaba is the #1 most popular film on the 2002 tour, beating out all other films including
several with budgets in excess of 1 million dollars, to screen at over 145 theatres in North
America. This doesn’t include the World tour, for which I have no statistics.

-Kris.

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harper · June 19, 2002, 12:51pm

More positive exposure. Congratulations, Kris. And thanks for doing so much to promote this sport.

system · June 19, 2002, 3:18pm

Re: Unizaba kicks butt on Banff North America Tour

Kris

Way to go !!! I feel honored to have had it premiere at last years unicycle convention in Toronto.

Can’t wait for the next one at the convention this year !

Darren

Kris Holm wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Just though I’d share some cool news I just got from a coordinator at the Banff Mountain Film
> Festival.
>
> Last year Skilletto was #2 in popularity on the Banff Mountain Film Festival North American tour,
> in terms of number of screenings. And this year…
>
> Unizaba is the #1 most popular film on the 2002 tour, beating out all other films including
> several with budgets in excess of 1 million dollars, to screen at over 145 theatres in North
> America. This doesn’t include the World tour, for which I have no statistics.
>
> -Kris.
>
> __________________________________________________
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brokenframe · June 19, 2002, 3:43pm

hey kris

hey thats cool.

but how much do you spend on making your movies? like the newest one, and Unizaba, One Tired Guy, all your movies, whats teh film budget on those? if you feel like saying what they are, k thanks.

system · June 19, 2002, 5:48pm

Re: Unizaba kicks butt on Banff North America Tour

— brokenframe <brokenframe.6ioe0@timelimit.unicyclist.com> wrote:
>
> hey thats cool.
>
> but how much do you spend on making your movies? like the newest one,
> and Unizaba, One Tired Guy, all your movies, whats teh film budget on
> those? if you feel like saying what they are, k thanks.
>
>

Making movies can be really expensive even if you are in the “low budget” scale of independent
films.

I don’t mind sharing the budgets:
Skilletto probably cost about $5000 USD to make including everything, but this was part of the
budget for a larger bike movie (New World Disorder)

Unizaba probably cost around $10,000 USD, again as part of a larger bike movie budget (Fat Tire
Fury)

Into the Thunder Dragon will cost about $90,000 USD, paid for by a production company called
Outside Television and sold to the Outdoor Life Network. That may seem like a heck of a lot, but
when you do the math and actually make a proper budget, it is only just barely enough for a very
small team, without even paying much in terms of salaries.

That said, you can see why it’s hard to make a movie intended primarily for a unicycling audience,
and also how amazing an achievement it was by Dan Heaton to make Universe on basically zero
budget.

-Kris.

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