We're very happy to announce that "Revenge of the Electric Car" will have its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on Earth Day, April 22nd, 2011 in New York City! We heard the news while getting started with our sound mixing and color correction, which we will wrap up just in time to deliver the film straight from the editing room to the festival.

Tribeca announced that “Revenge of the Electric Car" will make its grand debut during the opening weekend as its Spotlight feature documentary. We’re especially excited to be premiering at such a prestigious festival. “For many people, this is year 1 of the electric car,” said director Chris Paine. "For us to be playing at Tribeca in New York on Earth Day is a great sign that the electric car revolution is more than just a great story, it's our future with less imported oil."

"Revenge of the Electric Car" tells the story of how the plug-in car has come back from the dead in a few short years. With gas prices rising around the world again in monetary and environmental terms, many drivers want alternatives. “Revenge of the Electric Car” went behind the scenes for 3 years with 3 carmakers and 1 converter as they race to bring their electric cars to market.

After the Earth Day premiere, the film will have a handful of other screenings at the Tribeca Film Festival. Tickets to those screenings will go on sale at the festival’s website here.  Stay tuned for more details on the festivities surrounding the premiere- it’s going to be a great event!

BTW, Thank you for overflowing our email box with messages about when the film will be showing near you! So far the only answer we can give is “as soon as we can!” After our premiere at Tribeca, we’ll be mapping out our release strategy to bring the film to the cities with the most requests for it first. If you haven't already please request the film here and pass it along. The future is electric!

In late November we announced that we would release the trailer for the film when we reached our 10,000th fan on our Facebook Fan page.  Then on exactly Midnight, December 10th, 2010, we reached that 10,000th fan and the trailer was delivered.  The filmmakers stayed up that night emailing and calling each other with excitement- everyone glued to their computer screens and giving each other the fan count, watching anxiously as the number got closer and closer to our goal.  It was like our own private New Years Eve.
"9,857, Stefano!"
"It's at 9,962, Chris!"
"Is anyone on the Chicago team with the YouTube password staying awake to post it tonight?  Wake someone up!"

And apparently our Facebook fans were staying awake for the event as well: immediately after we posted the trailer the views on YouTube started soaring... 1,296... 2,687..."wait a minute, the trailer's only been up for 3 minutes!"  But more important than view counts were the comments.  We've been getting so many great comments and notes from everyone about how much they love the trailer, how excited they are for the film release, and for the release of the stars of the film themselves- the electric cars.

Filming behind the scenes of the creation of these new electric cars and the lengths their makers went through to have them hit the showrooms has been an amazing ride.  And now the ride continues as we edit the film and get it ready for the audiences so eagerly awaiting its release. 

To our fans: Thank you so much for rallying together to get the trailer released so quickly!  A lot of you have been asking what you can do to help promote the film, and it warms our hearts more than we can express to see how eager everyone is to help us get this film out there and in front of the car-buying public who could use electric car information.



The next step is to request the film on our website.  We're collecting requests across the world and will bring the film to the areas with the most requests first.  And as an inside tip from our marketing department... we're getting more requests from outside the USA than we anticipated... So come together, USA, and request the film in your city!  Thanks again, and happy holidays!

We recently announced that the Revenge of the Electric Car trailer will premiere on Facebook when we reach our 10,000th fan.  Since then, we've been watching our fan count increase at a dizzying rate, and as of this blog entry we're already well over halfway there!  Since last weekend was Thanksgiving, we'd like to say that we're so thankful to our loyal fans for spreading the word about the trailer on Facebook, Twitter, blogs, and good old-fashioned call-your-friends-and-tell-them-about-it methods.  And we're just as thankful to our new fans for joining us- welcome to the Revenge of the Electric Car family!

We know everyone wants to see the trailer as soon as possible, and we want to post it as soon as we can.  If you've been an electric car advocate for a while, then you know what it's like being the underdog, and our push for 10,000 Facebook fans is our underdog moment in the film industry.  Just as electric cars are now starting to pick up momentum in the auto industry, our film needs to generate its own momentum as well.  Right now we're handling all of the promotion and distribution for the film with our own production company and we want to continue this plan so we can bring the film to more places on our own.  Which means that we have to collect all our fans and hear from them!

So if you haven't already done so, please "like" us on our Facebook Page, tell your friends, spread the word through your EV clubs and associations, and get ready for the trailer!  We promise it will be worth the wait!