Category: Indie Film & Video

Leesa Dean: Adventures of a Web Series Newbie 75

R.I.P. Joan
by Leesa Dean

joan_riversI’ve been working towards a deadline and it’s been nuts (pulling 12-15 hour days) so this week will be short.  I was going to postpone but instead decided to write a few words about Joan Rivers, who, unless you’ve been living under a rock and didn’t hear, recently died.

I don’t think there’s a female comedian today who’s not indebted to her.  And while I’m not a stand-up, I do write comedy and her influence and the kind of material she did had a huge impact on me. The political incorrectness. The great snappy one-liners. The I give zero f*cks of it all. When she was on, as Chris Rock said, nobody could follow her.

I think the moment I really started paying attention was when she began doing red carpet (which, I guess, is a reflection of my age.) read article

Peer Production: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

This one hits the bullseye. About showbiz. The human  condition. And as an example of the art of indie animated film making:

https://vimeo.com/105847954

by Steve Cutts read article

Peer Production: EVERYONE’S FAMOUS

At last! A web comedy series that doesn’t just intend to be funny but actually is funny. Especially when it’s taking shots at itself. In other words, EVERYONE’S FAMOUS is about the wonderful interweb phenomenon where all of us believe fame in and of itself is a worthy life’s goal – made by people who are slogging away at achieving that very goal.

In other words – we love this:

Everyone’s Famous is a comedy web series created by Andrew Bush, Walter Forsyth and Angus Swantee. read article

Why Danish TV is Better than US TV

Cuz wonderful, inventive, and controversial filmmakers not only have emerged from Danish television production. They often go back to it. Behold a magnificent case in point:

Lars von TrierLars von Trier returns to TV: what can we expect?
by Graeme Virtue

Good news for fans of the phrase “enfant terrible” – on Monday, Lars von Trier, the puckish provocateur of European arthouse cinema, broke his self-imposed media silence by Skype-ing the Venice film festival. Nominally it was to promote an extended cut of his sex diptych Nymphomaniac, but Louise Vesth, Von Trier’s producer since Melancholia, dropped a juicier exclusive by confirming the writer/director’s next project: an English-language TV series for Danish broadcaster DR (The Bridge/The Killing), with the working title The House that Jack Built. Had Vesth simply pulled the trigger, or jumped the gun? Von Trier hasn’t even finished writing the script and the earliest filming date would be 2016, but here’s what we might expect.

He Has Impressive TV Cred read article

Peer Production: TIME KEEPER

We luv us our DOCTOR WHO but gotta tell ya, friends: TIME KEEPER is a whole other kind of time traveling awesome. Beautifully shot, powerfully written. Fun and meaning intertwined the way they should be. TVWriter™ congrats creator Daryn Murphy and the whole TIME KEEPER gang on a job very well done!

All of Season 1 is HERE