This is so cool I hardly know where to begin.

(Hey folks, these guys are for real, with some significant film credits to their name (see at bottom for details) and they're working on a documentary film about the craigslist community - it'll be good to tell the everday story of craigslist, and should be fun. thanks! /Craig)

Greetings from Zealot Pictures.

We’re making a movie about craigslist -- or rather, we're making a movie out of craigslist.

We’re going to take one day, Monday, August 4th, 2003, and make a documentary based on the CL postings from that day. Not just the "Best-Of" or the "Success Stories", but a real, down-to-earth look at the fastest-growing grassroots cyber-community in the city that started it: San Francisco. Personal ads, job listings, missed connections, homemade helicopter sales, transgender counseling - everything that moves through the flow of the city's consciousness within a single 24 hour period. There is no script and no agenda other than what the community itself creates on that day, and postings will be followed up to their logical conclusions-- days, weeks or perhaps months afterwards. Stories within stories, worlds within worlds, unforeseen connections and unpredictable encounters across all strata of society-- it all comes together in "24 Hours on Craigslist."

Here’s how it’ll work:

On Monday, August 4th, a box will appear as you make your post. If you would like to participate in the film in any way - going on a date you met on CL, giving an interview about that great job you found, selling your blender, renting your apartment, or even anonymously - just click the box and your posting will be sent to us. We’ll then contact you and set up a time for our film crews to come and meet with you (and perhaps whoever responds to you as well). Don’t be shy, we want to get a bit of everything that happens on craigslist - and we do mean everything.

"One day. One City. One website. No limits."

Other Ways to Participate:

If you would rather not have a crew come out and film you, there are other ways to participate in the Craigslist movie.

-- Send us your own footage

-- Give us an interview through your webcam

-- Just call us on the phone and tell us about your interesting Craigslist story

-- Email us (info@zealotpictures.com)

FAQs

Q: You’re filming this whole movie in one day?
A: No, we’re following up on the posts made on one day. Since most posts are not resolved within a single twenty four hour period most of the film will be shot in the days and weeks that follow our one day.

Q: Are you filming in every city on Craigslist?
A: No, for this documentary, we are just going to focus on the birthplace of Craigslist: San Francisco.

Q: Will you film in other parts of the Bay Area or just SF?
A: Yes, we will have a limited number of crews exploring posts made from outside the city, although the majority of the film will focus on posts made from within the 7x7 square miles of San Francisco.

Q: Are you going to follow up on EVERY single posting during that day?
A: Since there are over 30,000 postings made during just one day in the San Francisco area, that would be impossible. However, we are going to follow up on as broad a spectrum as possible of Craigslist posts.

Who Are We?

We're Zealot Pictures, a San Francisco-based film production/distribution company specializing in passionate community-based documentary and independent feature films. Some of our previous titles include "Confessions of a Burning Man", a feature-length documentary chronicling the journeys of four radically different individuals at the 2001 Burning Man Festival, as well as Kevin Epps' "Straight Outta Hunters Point", a gritty, hard look at the history and present life of the Hunters Point Housing Project, San Francisco's most notorious ghetto. Our work has always centered around social and cultural issues inspired by the people and communities of the Bay Area.

For more information check out www.zealotpictures.com.

And feel free to email us now with your thoughts about the Craigslist movie: info@zealotpictures.com

Thanks,

Zealot Pictures