The Oldest Life on Earth Classification & Release Date

The BBFC has today officially classified the forthcoming DVD The Oldest Life on Earth a 12. The details can be found here: http://www.bbfc.co.uk/AVV277432. The consumer advice is that it contains moderate violence and occasional sight of blood. (!) I can assure you though that it's all tasteful and in context.

This means that the film will be available to buy from this website as from Monday 28 March 2011!

On a personal note, I'm very chuffed that all this has gone through without a hitch. The classification has been a big expense but I was very keen to do it, primarily because it's the law, but also because this DVD has been a serious project. It wasn't something that I dreamt up one drunken evening in the Local, before setting out the next day with a couple of mates and a camcorder! (Although that has been known to happen...!) It's taken hours and hours of planning, writing, editing, visual-effects-designing, publishing... not to mention brutal financing. Because of these reasons, I am very keen that, when you fine people hopefully watch it, you will appreciate that it was executed with dedicated seriousness, and I want people to take me seriously. That's why I believe a classification is important.

Moreover, it's been a new and fascinating process that I've been through with the BBFC, and in fact I've had a lot of Firsts over the last few months! Particularly notable is the 'mass production' that I initiated on Monday thanks to my fellow filmmaker friend Mr Kenneth D. Barker - (do give him some time and attention at his website: http://www.wotr.co.uk/, he's a clever fellow.) Mass production is something I've never done before, and Kenneth has been kind enough to let me use his equipment to print and duplicate DVDs en masse, which means I am now drowning in copies of my own creativity! I don't mind though - they're all shiny and lovely and I'm very proud of them.

See, they're wasted sitting in a big box under my desk! Come back on the 28th March and buy one for yourself! (Warning: impending sales pitch.) They're excellent value for money at a bargain basement £6.99, and they feature the main film plus an exclusive introduction, trailers, and a side-splitting outtake reel in which I fall over, while standing still, on the spot, for no reason whatsoever. That alone has to be worth the price of the DVD, if only for the point-and-laughability.