Idea 382 of 500. Cluster 19: Heritage, archives and film
Documentary production about the island's own stories, sold to the streaming platforms
The mechanism, from the book
Eight World Heritage Sites and 2,300 years of records, and the country's story is told to the world by other people.
Every idea in cluster 19 uses this mechanism.
A first step
Choose one story from your district that nobody has filmed properly, and shoot a 3-minute trailer on a phone with the people who know it. Send the link to three commissioning editors or producers who buy factual content, with a short note on what the full film would show. Their response, a meeting, a note or a price, is your proof.
- Who pays first
- A streaming platform or broadcaster abroad looking for original factual stories from a country it has little footage of.
- What leaves today
- The island's stories are told to the world by other people; a local production company owns the rights and keeps the income.
The idea and the mechanism are from the book. The first step was written for this site as a suggestion; if you know a better one, say so.
The test
Does it keep value that now leaves the island, or build the proof that lets somebody else do so?
The only test any idea on this site has to pass. The four rules that go with it are here.
In the book
More from cluster 19
- 381A film-location service: crews, permits, fixers and locations, sold to the studios of India and Europe
- 383A museum shop worthy of the museum, at the National Museum, at Anuradhapura, at Galle
- 384Digitisation of the palm-leaf manuscripts and colonial archives as a paid service to the libraries of the world
- 385Architecture tours of Bawa's buildings with the houses opened by their owners
- 386Heritage-building restoration firms with the skills to work on the forts and the villas
- 387Galle Fort as a managed heritage site, run with the residents
Idea 382 of the 500 in the appendix of Why Not Sri Lanka? Every one can be started by one person, one family or one small firm.