The technology company M31, based in Padova, is organizing an event at Centro Altinate: on March 27th, 2010, from 6 to 8 pm, there will be a  screening of MGS: Philanthropy, a short speech of several members of Hive Division (Giacomo Talamini, Alessandro Schiassi, Alberto Vazzola, Lamberto Azzariti) and a Q&A session.
Also, some lead actors from the movie will attend the event (Patrizia Liccardi and Marco Saran).

We warmly thank M31 for the organization and the support!

The event is free and to attend you have to register here (limited seats available).

Here you can find the official press release of the event (Italian only).

For further information, please have a look at the Facebook page of the event or write us!

Giacomo Talamini (Director) and Alessandro Schiassi (VFX Supervisor) will attend the event and will answer all your questions during the Q&A session after the movie.

The entrance is free and everyone is welcome!

LUCCA COMICS & GAMES (LUCCA, 29 OCTOBER – 1 NOVEMBER)
Our movie will be shown during the Lucca Comics & Games event, an important international event about comics, movies, and videogames held in Lucca (Tuscany).
Here you can find the detailed program of the event.
We want to thank Umbrella Italian Division and LED Production for inviting us and hosting us at their stands.

VIEW CONFERENCE (TURIN, 4-7 NOVEMBER)
Hive Division will participate at the VIEW Conference, the 10th International Computer Graphics Conference.
On November, 7th (Saturday), Giacomo Talamini (Director), Alessandro Schiassi (VFX Supervisor), Alberto Vazzola (Lead 3D Artist) and Lamberto Azzariti (Lead 2D Artist) will talk about the realization of Metal Gear Solid: Philanthropy in a 45-minute speech, “Philanthropy: a Guerrilla Sci-Fi Production”.
Here you can find the detailed program of the event.

We’ll post photos and a review of the events, but feel free to participate! If you want to meet some of our crew and if you are in Italy, this is a good chance!

We’ll update you as soon as all the services will come available again!

If you wish to contact us, please use our Contact form or write us at info@hivedivision.net

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Philanthropy has been a challenge nearly impossible to complete, started three years ago. We didn’t imagine, then, all the troubles we would have been into and all the obduracy that we would need to complete the project.
By the way, we didn’t know, how much support we were going to find, how many friends we were going to meet, how many passionate and generous people were going to help us.

The release of “Metal Gear Solid: Philanthropy” make an end of the first life history of Hive Division. The team, nearly a family now, is going to take some time to decide what’s happening next.
We do not really know when we’re going to produce the two sequels of Philanthropy (whose script was written together with “The Overnight Nation” in 2006). This will depend on many factors: the reaction of our public, the future of professional Hive Division, who is looking for financial partners to realize our next projects and partners to become a real Production Studio, and, for sure, Konami’s reaction to the project.
We feel and hope that one day Snake, Elizabeth, and Pierre will complete their journey.

We are deeply grateful to all those who have been following the project, even during its “mysterious” phases when we were working so hard that we couldn’t update you as we would have liked to.
We happily put this movie in the hands of the Internet, the “primeval soup” in which our project was born and raised, to which we owe so much and which we hope to have provided with something meaningful.

Due to technical issues, the Metal Gear Solid: Philanthropy web site is not accessible, but you can download the movie from the following links.

We’re sorry for the inconvenience, we’ll soon be on-line again!

Enjoy the movie!

Video Streaming

Megaupload

.mov H264 (2.35 GB)

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

.avi xvid (750 MB)

Torrent

.mov H264 (2.35 GB)

.avi xvid (750 MB)

E-Mule

.mov H264 (2.35 GB)

.avi xvid (750 MB)

The release date is approaching and we are now working on the translation of “Metal Gear Solid: Philanthropy” subtitles into several languages.

While some languages are already covered and the subbers are already at work, other languages are still missing.

We ALREADY HAVE subbers for the following languages:

- English

- French

- Spanish (Latin American)

- Spanish (Official Castellano)

- Polish

- Czech

- Finnish

- Greek

- Portuguese

- German

- Russian

- Italian

We NEED HELP for the following languages (in alphabetical order):

- Belgian Now covered!

- Chinese Now covered!

- Danish Now covered!

- Japanese Now covered!

- Korean Now covered!

- Norwegian Now covered!

- Romanian Now covered!

- Serbo-Croatian Now covered!

- Swedish Now covered!

Please write an e-mail to valentina.paggiarin@hivedivision.net if you want to lend a hand! Please write “SUBBER” and your language in the e-mail object!
Please, write only if the language you want to translate is in the “NEED HELP” list!

If someone whose language is not in the above lists wants to contribute, write to the same address!

As usual, you’re going to work for free, but we’re going to credit all those who will help us with the translation at the end of the movie credits!

Thanks to anyone who will help!

We don’t know what the future deserves to our band of brothers, but what we do know is that… this time, we did it!