Newport Beach Film Festival 2008

Take a thousand sketchbooks, glue covers on them, stamp them a thousand times, hand number them from 1 to 1,000, and send them out into the world. Then create a website and try to keep track of them all. This is the story of 1,000 Journals, a global, collaborative project, which was started in the year 2000 by a graphic designer in San Francisco who calls himself 'Someguy.' In September 2003, one of the 1,000, number 526, returned to Someguy, filled. What happened to the other 999? This film tells their stories. 1,000 Journals shares the experience of their worldwide journeys, and chronicles the self-governed collaboration of thousands of random people who have added to this global 'message in a bottle.'