The CFC and Shortnonstop Mobile Movie Festival have announced the Grand Prize winner of the most recent cycle of the ShortsNonStop online film festival: Toronto’s Linzi Knight and her film, The Gay Who Wasn’t Gay Enough. The short is a humourous look at the process of coming out, and stereotypes that exist in everyday activities. [...]
Read more...iThentic Nominated for an IAWTV Award!
December 19th, 2011 by Chris HeronWe’re extremely excited and proud to announce that our original web series, The World of Bruce McCall, was nominated for an International Academy of Web Television award in the category of Best Animated Web Series! This is the first year the awards have been offered and the event can be watched live on the IAWTV [...]
Read more...National Film Pitch Competition Now Accepting Entries
December 9th, 2011 by Chris HeronBig Vision Empty Wallet, a networking organization dedicated to bringing together artists and innovators, is looking to get the next great feature made through their National Film Pitch Competition. The Grand Prize is valued at over $100,000, including a 30 day rental package from Canon and free rental packages/services from other companies, including a Producer’s [...]
Read more...Laundrette Wins DepicT! Audience Award
November 23rd, 2011 by Chris HeroniThentic curated short film The Laundrette has won the Shooting People DepicT! Audience Award. Director Tim Bassford was given the award at the 17th Bristol Encounters International Film Festival Awards Ceremony held on Saturday, November 19th. The short topped stiff competition – 500 different films from 30 countries competed, with a mere 14 shortlisted for distinction. [...]
Read more...COMMENTARY: Wilson Cleveland and Branded Web Series
We were lucky enough to discuss the topic of branded web series with Wilson Cleveland, a creator whose work in this field is among the most varied and successful. Wilson Cleveland joined CJP Digital in 2001 and currently oversees the firm’s Digital practice, which he founded in 2006. CJP’s Digital practice creates integrated, award-winning digital [...]
Read more...Commentary: Down on the (Wall) Street
We were fortunate to be able to discuss the making of the documentary web series, The Zeroes, with its director, Ivan Weiss. A North Carolina-based journalist and filmmaker, Weiss received his M.A. from the London Film School and spent a year on a journalism Fulbright in Moscow writing about extant remnants of Soviet culture. He [...]
Read more...Commentary: The Sound of the Lost Thing
John Kassab describes his experience as sound designer for last year’s Oscar-winning animated short film, The Lost Thing, and what he learned from the project. You can watch a trailer for the short film here. Working on The Lost Thing created many technical challenges that I had not been faced with before. Most of the [...]
Read more...The Opportunities of Web Series
September 12th, 2011 by Chris HeronThis blog post was written by special guest blogger, Anthony Letizia from alterna-tv.com. The media industry has changed during the early part of the twenty-first century. The 1990s, for instance, saw a rash of mega-media mergers as Time Warner combined with AOL, CBS with Viacom and ABC with Walt Disney. By the time that decade [...]
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COMMENTARY: Jay Ferguson Gives Web Series Tips
We were fortunate to sit down with Jay Ferguson, director and co-writer of the new interactive, transmedia web series Guidestones. He offers insight into working on such a large scale with a relatively low budget and what he feels web series brings to the table as medium. Jay is an award-winning filmmaker who has contributed [...]
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