Christmas is in a little more than one month, and that would be the best time to pre-order your Patient Zero DVD, and help us :-)

Based on the amount of views/downloads, the movie will be translated only in French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese [Brazil] and Russian and it will be Zone 1 only (watch carefully if your DVD player can play Zone 1 DVD before ordering this DVD!).

Check also if you want a slow or a fast delivery (outside of the USA, the slow delivery is NOT insured).

Thank you for your support! :-)

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Wow. What else can I say? 10,000 views and downloads in one week, for a fan made film! You guys are the best! :-)

Seems like the biggest group of viewers is first the English speaking one (what a surprise, lol) followed by... Brazil! I am really impressed by this stat. I knew that you guys are the football Pentacampeões ("5 times winner of the world soccer cup" for the American audience ;-) but I had no idea that you like Resident Evil fan films so much! Abrigado! :-)

An other great surprise is the interest of Turkish fans who took on themselves to translate Patient Zero in Turkish. I have updated the download page with their contribution. Teşekkür ederim! :-)

That's all for this week. Next update will be about the Patient Zero DVD. In the meantime, keep sharing and spreading the movie to your friends! The Resident Evil 1.5 Trailer has been viewed and download almost 50,000 times in one year. I wonder how long it will takes for Patient Zero to beat these numbers? ;-)

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Here we are, my friends, and Happy Halloween!

Thank you to everybody who have followed this journey during almost one year and half, your patience and support are finaly rewarded: here is Patient Zero!

You can watch it in HD on Youtube or download it straight from this website, in various languages. After you are done watching it (and rewatching it) don't forget to send us a comment by email ,or on the Facebook page, or on one of the Youtube pages. And if you like it, don't be shy: either upload it somewhere else or just link to it!

And don't forget to come back in two weeks, for more Patient Zero news - yes, this journey is not over yet ;-)

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Thank you to all the people who have participated! They will have their name in the credits of Patient Zero... which will be released in less than 10 days! Can you believe it? I sure can't!

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We are starting our IndieGoGo fundraising campaign, so we can recoup parts of the money we'd invested during Patient Zero's production, but also so we can propose you some DVD with a lot of extra features later this year.

If you give $10, you'll be in the credits of the film - how coool would it be to watch your name roll at the end of a Resident Evil film, during Halloween's night?

The campaign will end one week before Halloween, October 21. Tell you friends about it and help us! Thank you for your support :-)

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I am very happy to let you know that Patient Zero will be premiered for free at the Delancey Street Screening Room, Tuesday, September 20th, at 7 PM. There will be 3 other short films from other graduates, and short animation videos by the Animation students from my college.

I hope that this Premiere will be memorable and that we can film it. The result will be displayed in the special features of the DVD we will release later this year. More about the DVD in the coming weeks :-)

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The Sound Files is the name of Patient Zero's soundtrack, created by Yasser Mahammedi and his band Lucas Tools. Not all the tracks of this album are used in Patient Zero but they are all used, at one point or an other, in Patient Zero's promotion.

You can download the Sound Files for free, here or here. This album is protected under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivs License (CC-by-nc-nd), which means that you can download it and share it with whoever you want, but you can't sell it or remix it without asking the owner of the rights permission to do it.

Yasser is avery talented artist, influenced by Akira Yamaoka, Joy Division, The Cure, Nine Inch Nails, etc. He lives currently in Tunisia where he is working on the soundtrack of an other American short movie called EmVerse.

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Here is the long awaited trailer for Patient Zero! Vlad Korishev, my Student Academy Award Nominee editor has outdone himself, and I think you will like this short video! ;-)
For once, you can not only stream it from Youtube as usual but also from Vimeo - check the download page for the links.

Things are getting even more crazy than usual (last quarter at college before graduation) but things are going well for Patient Zero: it will be translated in 8 languages so far (French, Italian, Spanish, German, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Danish and Norvegian) and my sound designer is doing his best to get the mix right. As with the Resident Evil 1.5 Trailer project, I have the feeling that I'll be working on this movie until the very last minutes before its release ;-)

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One of the very last Behind The Scene video as we are getting close to the release of Patient Zero! I know that it is still a few months away for you, faitful viewer, but it seems to be tomorrow to me ;-) I can't believe I started this website a little more than one year ago... Time does fly!

So this BTS is about my friend Jamie Richard, a great film director, who was kind enough to check my script and rewrite it in good English. As for the next update, it should be about music/B.O. Stay tuned!

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This Behind The Scene video is about my Lighting Director Joshua Watts. He did a perfect job by giving me the dark and moody lights I wanted for Patient Zero!

We are near the end of our BTS videos and I hope you enjoyed them. If you want to know what's going on about Patient Zero post-production, check the blog, Facebook page and follow us on Twitter!

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A very special Behind The Scene video this time, with Elijah Collins, the man behind all the sounds related effects of Patient Zero.

We are in the post-production stage of Patient Zero and this video will reveal a few glimpses of the movie, with a tiny little spoiler! It will also show you how ADR (Automated Dialogue Replacement) is done, months after the actual shooting and how actors need to be back "into" their character.

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Time for a new Behind The Scene video! This one is about Vlad Korishev, the talented editor from Patient Zero.

Vlad is a very talented artist who also worked with me on the edit of the Resident Evil 1.5 Trailer. We are also working on other projects involving blood and evil, but that's an other story ;-)

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Here is the second teaser, which I nicknamed "Ada" - for obvious reasons, once you see it ;-)

I think there should be a third and last teaser in a few months. A teaser, or a trailer. Not sure which one yet.

Thanks for your support, you guys are great! 500 fans on Facebook, almost 400 on Twitter, this is amazing :-) We are all really thanksfull for your support. Keep spreading the word about REFF to your friends, and remember that if you want you can also donate - and get something back ;-)

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Today is the 15th Anniversary of Resident Evil, so happy birthday to our favorite world of survival-horror!

I have just been told that The Resident Evil 1.5 Trailer and the first Patient Zero teaser will be shown at the Anime Conji from San Diego, this Friday from 5.30 to 6.30, thanks to Michael Young! More info about the convention here.

That would be a great opportunity for you to win a free Patient Zero tshirt: take a picture of the screen when either of the 2 movies are displayed and send it to contact@jtchagnon.com with your information. The best one will win a Tshirt and the picture will be posted in the website :-)

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We have our 500th fan on Facebook and as promised, here is the special zombie video!

Witness, in a 9 minutes long BTS video, how Kabari Jackson becomes John Clemens (the infamous John from "Ada and John" in RE1 ;-) and a zombie.
9 minutes of interviews, make-up, greenscreen shooting and more!

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Fifth BTS with Joe Napoli Jr, as William Birkin. You may be surprised by what he says about his character, as I have transformed it a little from the "regular" Resident Evil mythos.

Just 5 more fans in the Facebook page before you can discover the special BTS video - who said "zombies"? Send your friends to the page and make them like it!

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Fourth BTS where you'll meet with Patient Zero's Director of Photography, Nico van den Berg - an extremly talented young man! He will explain why he choose to shot the project with a Canon 7D camera.

On a side note, and as you may have already read in the blog or the Facebook page, I have decided to give myself more time and I have postponed the release of Patient Zero to September 2011.

Just 8 more fans before you can discover the special BTS video - who said "zombies"? Send your friends to the page and make them like it!

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Third BTS where you will discover the actress behind Ada Wong, Jean Bai. Valentine's Day is coming soon, so she will tell you about love or commitment. Or not ;-)

I am also pleased to see that we will soon reach the 500th fan on our Facebook page. A new BTS will be released specially when we'll reach this amount!

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Second BTS with my "mighty producer", Ashley Doss! She will reveal a few unknown truths about the hard work of film making ;-)

I am also pleased to see that we will soon reach the 500th fan on our Facebook page. A new BTS will be released specially when we'll reach this amount!

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Here we are in 2011, with the release of Patient Zero in just a few months. As I did for the Resident Evil 1.5 Trailer, there will be a few Behind The Scenes videos (or "BTS") released before the movie itself. More or less one per month. There will be also a Trailer and the whole BO, all of them free of charge!

Of course, if you want to contribuate and support the project, there will be some extra gifts for you ;-) For the whole list of Prizes and Donations, please look at the Donations page. As soon as there will be enough of you with a "Patient Zero T-Shirt", I will create a contest so you'll be able to win more prizes!

Same goes with the amount of fans on Facebook and followers on Twitter. 2011 will be the "year of the prizes" ;-)

In the meantime, here is our first BTS for Patient Zero, featuring Philippe Debaty as Albert Wesker. As usual, download it from our server or watch it from Youtube. Post your comments on the Facebook page, in the blog or email them to me :-)

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2010 has been a very challenging year, with the production of the Resident Evil 1.5 Trailer. We are very pleased, and thankful, for your support during this long year… Making a movie is really not an easy thing!

But now, let’s look to the future and Patient Zero. The pre-production and production of this short feature has been successfully completed, and we are now working on the post-production. The release date is still aiming somewhere in summer 2011, around June. There will be several behind the scene videos to be released, in the meantime.

And now, without further ado, have a look to your first glimpse at Patient Zero – you can either download it in HD from our server or watch it from Youtube. The Patient Zero’s crew whish you all a happy new year :-)

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I have introduced you to Patient Zero's main music compositer Yasser Mohamedi in the previous last news. Now it is time for you to have a better idea of his skills, and of Patient Zero's musical choices, with one free sample to download.

Terribilis Est Locus Iste is one work-in-progress track of what will become next year the" Patient Zero the Sound Files" album (Terribilis Est Locus Iste is latin for "This location is scary" ). The track is available under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial NoDerivs License (CC-by-nc-nd), which means that you can download it and share it with whoever you want, but you can't sell it or remix it without asking the owner of the rights permission to do it.

Clic here to download the song and let me know in the blog's comments what you think about it :-)

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It is time now to talk about Patient Zero. I have used the core members of my cast and crew to work on both the Resident Evil 1.5 Trailer and Patient Zero. The goal was for everybody to get used to work with each other during the Trailer, and be ready for the real deal, Patient Zero.

This worked fine, except for the music. For the Trailer, I have used the music composed by Capcom's own team - I just couldn't imagine a RE1.5 project with a non-RE1.5 music! So I needed some fresh and new talent for my lead composer.

I am really happy to say that I found this extremely talented musician named Yasser Mohamedi, who created a completly original score for Patient Zero, with the help of Kevin Martin, an other musician, and my sound designer/foley artist Elijah Collins. You can check Yasser's bio in the Cast and Crew page and discover his website here. More about this talented artist, very soon!

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Two weeks later the release of the Resident Evil 1.5 Trailer, I am really pleased by its reception among the fans: it has been seen 6,000 times so far (and downloaded from my host 4,000 times) and I have received lots of encouragements from fans worldwide. Thank you guys, I really appreciate the thoughts :-)

The Trailer will make its debut in a Zombie Festival at Terror4fun, November 13th, in England. Check their website for all the news. If you can reach the festival, takes some pictures and send them to me, or post them to the Facebook page :-)

Before we move into Patient Zero, here is a last BTS video for the Resident Evil 1.5 Trailer. We had a lot of funs shooting it, and I wanted to share it with you! :-)

Now, you should check either the Facebook page, the blog or our twits, to now exactly when we will start promoting Patient Zero.

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Happy Halloween :-) In september 2009, I decided to use the Resident Evil universe for my senior project for college. But before directing a short movie, I wanted to get my feet wet with a smaller project. This is how I got the idea to make a trailer based on the mysterious Resident Evil 1.5 game. One year later, the (extremely short) movie is completed, and I hope you'll enjoy it :-) Let me know what you think about it, either by email, on the blog, or on Facebook. Thanks :-)

Thanks to a few international fans, the movie is available in various languages. Go to the download page and grab the version subtitled in your own language!

And the future of refanfilms, you may ask? Well, there is this short movie called Patient Zero you will heard about very soon, but we are not yet completly done with the Resident Evil 1.5 trailer. Come back in 2 weeks for - yeah, you know the drill now - a very last BTS video. We had a lot of fun shooting this movie, and I wanted to share parts of it with you :-)

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Last BTS video before the real deal is released in two weeks! You voted for it on the Facebook page, so here you got it: a sneak peek at how the zombies were created for the Resident Evil 1.5 Trailer :-)

I have selected two extremely tall guys to act as my monsters so I had to ask them to sit down, so I can apply the make-up on them - yeah, I am kinda short myself ^^

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BTS video number four is ready to scares you with its horde of undeads! Hmmm... with lots of blood-thirsty creatures! OK, OK, with two, yeah just two but extremely talented ZOMBIES! I hope you'll enjoy this short behind the scene video :-)

An other paragraph, an other subject: if you follow Resident Evil Fan Films on Facebook or Twitter, you know that a few days ago, we have send the Resident Evil 1.5 Trailer's texts to our mighty translators. These guys are so good that half of them have already send their translations back! A round of applause for them, please :-)

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The new BTS video will show you the RPD parking lot and Leon and Linda ;-) This video is the last from the outside location shots, made during April. Next video will be with our guest stars, the zombies!
Stay tuned :-)

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