Ifp has announced its 2013 slate of 163 films in development selected for its Project Forum at Independent Film Week, which runs September 15-19 at New York's Lincoln Center. "The event brings the international film and media community to New York City to advance new projects and support the future of storytelling by nurturing the work of both emerging and established independent artists and filmmakers," Ifp explained in a press release. "Through the Project Forum, creatives connect with the financiers, executives, influencers and decision-makers in film, television, new media and cross-platform storytelling that can help them complete their latest works and connect with audiences." Featured works at the 2013 Independent Film Week include filmmakers and content creators ranging from Academy Award winners Louie Psihoyos ("The Cove") and Cynthia Wade ("Freeheld") to web-series innovators such as Mesh Flinders ("Lonelygirl 5") and Thom Woodley ("The Burg"). “For 35...
- 7/25/2013
- by Peter Knegt
- Indiewire
Expectant mom Pam Halpert (Jenna Fischer) is expanding her social circle.
TVLine has learned exclusively that ‘Til Death‘s Lindsey Broad has been cast on The Office in the potentially recurring role of Pam’s competent and likable pal, Kathy. She’s slated to first air in late October/early November.
The Office Spoiler Alert: Who Else is Expecting?
In addition to ‘Til Death, Broad’s credits include the popular web series The Burg and the upcoming big screen adaptation of 21 Jump Street (co-starring The Office‘s Ellie Kemper).
The Office kicks off its eighth season on Sept. 22.
TVLine has learned exclusively that ‘Til Death‘s Lindsey Broad has been cast on The Office in the potentially recurring role of Pam’s competent and likable pal, Kathy. She’s slated to first air in late October/early November.
The Office Spoiler Alert: Who Else is Expecting?
In addition to ‘Til Death, Broad’s credits include the popular web series The Burg and the upcoming big screen adaptation of 21 Jump Street (co-starring The Office‘s Ellie Kemper).
The Office kicks off its eighth season on Sept. 22.
- 9/8/2011
- by Michael Ausiello
- TVLine.com
On Saturday night, the New York Television Festival capped off a week's worth of screenings and entertainment industry-oriented events with an awards show honoring some of this year's top submissions. Here's a summary of the web series that took home cash and acclaim on Saturday night. Greg & Donny Most of yins are familiar with Geoff Skowron and Matt Yeager from their roles on Williamsburgh's favorite web show, The Burg, but these two Steelers fans from Western Pennsylvania are attracting quite the following for their own series. The creators of the tech-illiterate Greg and Donny won IFC's "Out of the Box" award and received a $25,000 development deal from the cable network. 9Am Meeting This "barely-animated web series" has been a long-time hit amongst New York's Channel 101 crowd, stringing together 10 callbacks in a row (and counting!) at the monthly voter's choice screening. Now MTV has taken notice. Brooklyn-based comedy writer and 9Am creator,...
- 9/27/2010
- by Joshua Cohen
- Tubefilter.com
From "Lone Star's" James Wolk to "Raising Hope's" Lucas Neff to "Hawaii Five-0's" Grace Park, here's some of the fresh, new talent of the 2010 fall TV season! Now you'll know where you know them from!
For a complete calendar of all the fall TV shows, click here!
TV's Fresh Faces of 2010James Wolk
Show: Fox's "Lone Star" How we know him: Wolk's past acting experience includes a few small TV parts, so "Lone Star" marks his breakthrough role.
For a complete calendar of all the fall TV shows, click here!
TV's Fresh Faces of 2010James Wolk
Show: Fox's "Lone Star" How we know him: Wolk's past acting experience includes a few small TV parts, so "Lone Star" marks his breakthrough role.
- 9/25/2010
- Extra
Greg & Donny have discovered Farmville. It was only a matter of time. Today the hick comedy web series returns for its second season with “Greg the Farmer,” proving that no internet phenomenon is out of reach of these knuckleheads. Together the duo of Jeff Skowron and Matt Yeager, the creators and stars of the series, make up Puddinhead Brothers on YouTube. Skowron stars as Greg and Yeager as Donny, two Western Pennsylvania yokels discovering the wonders of the internet. Yeager’s also part of the team at Dinosaur Diorama, which brought some of the early NY-based web comedies to national spotlight, like hipster-loving The Burg, RenFaire moc-doc All’s Faire and Vuguru’s branded indie rock road trip The All-For-Nots. Not surprisingly, fellow Burg creator Thom Woodley directs Greg & Donny. Related News:Quick Clicks: ‘The Battery’s’ Streamy, ‘Greg & Donny’, #Streamathon, ‘Alma’ ‘The Burg’ Is Cool Again, Hipsters Back, Yupsters Out...
- 9/8/2010
- by Marc Hustvedt
- Tubefilter.com
Illeana Douglas may be quite the name in web series circles now, especially after landing six Streamy nominations for her popular comedy Easy to Assemble, which just wrapped its second season earlier this year. It even spawned a spinoff series Sparhüsen, which nabbed its own Streamy nod. But aside from those two, the Emmy-nominated TV and film actress has yet to venture into a web series where she isn't the one calling the shots. Looks like that’s about to change. Douglas just wrapped shooting a two-episode guest starring arc on Spherion-sponsored office comedy The Temp Life in New York this week, playing cold hearted CEO Eve Randall. Also shooting a guest spot this week is Taryn Southern who brings back her gumpy midwest It tech Nancy Roder for a few more episodes. This isn’t the first we’ve written about the casting moves on The Temp Life this season,...
- 3/9/2010
- by Marc Hustvedt
- Tubefilter.com
Next New Networks officially announced their "Next New Creators" program today, which works with upstart indie web series and brings them into the Nnn mix in a slightly less formal way than some of the network's originally developed shows. The 4 year-old online TV network—which is really a family of channels like Barely Political, Threadbanger, Indy Mogul, and Channel Frederator—had been working with a select group of shows over the past year in non-exclusive fashion. Auto-Tune the News, the breakout musical satire series from the Gregory Brothers, is probably the most notable of the early crop of shows to come out of the program, grossing over 35 million views on YouTube and other sites. Other web series like those that were tapped for Nnn's new foodie site, Hungry Nation, were also in the program including Daniel Delaney’s street food escapes on Vendr.TV and Max and Rebecca Lando’s...
- 12/16/2009
- by Marc Hustvedt
- Tubefilter.com
"This tis the story of a band of gentlefolk who strive to bring forthe the finest renntertainment on the entire Delmarva Peninsula!" The folks at Dinosaur Diorama have been busy this month, serving up its first full-length episode of The Burg since 2007 that clocked in at a whopping 20 minutes. Then on November 17th, they premiered their first season of the "Renntertainment" comedy, All's Faire. Now you may be asking yourself, "wait, this is the First season of All's Faire? Wasn't that a Streamy-nominated show last year?" I had the chance to correspond with Dinosaur Diorama's Thom Woodley to get the details on how the current episodes tie into the Kingdom of Gary-shire upon Delmarva universe of Alls Faire. "We did use some of what we shot in 2008," said Woodley. "Those 9 shorts are nonchronological - they're just slices of life at the faire. Actually, we just took those out of our...
- 11/25/2009
- by Jenni Powell
- Tubefilter.com
The recession really knocked the pants off this country in the past two years, but if there's any shine on the economic turd it's that at least Williamsburg is cool again. Sure the trust fund kids took a hit when the market tanked, but real estate got cheap again and the Yupsters thinned out. So what better time to bring back Brooklyn hipster comedy The Burg? The indie web series from Brooklyn-based Dinosaur Diorama, the same team behind All's Faire and Vuguru's The All-For-Nots, is back with its first full-length episode since 2007. The 20-minute episode, "Change" (above) is also the show's longest, starting off with a catchup of what happened since Xander's season-ending autobiomentary . Xander (Matt Yaeger) fills us in on his posse—Courtney (Kelli Giddish) is moving out of The Burg, heading to La for a TV show gig and Ryan (Jeff Skowron) is losing his grip on sanity.
- 11/1/2009
- by Marc Hustvedt
- Tubefilter.com
A couple of weeks ago I tweeted about a Brooklyn party I attended for the web production company Dinosaur Diorama and the launch of the latest episode of their hit web series, The Burg. The first new episode in two years, it's titled "Change," and is directed by Peter Sollett, of Raising Victor Vargas and Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist. Here's the teaser, and we'll post the link when it premieres next week.
- 10/23/2009
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
The chatter about Next New Networks this week started with rumors of layoffs at the New York-based web studio Yesterday, came news that the studio has hired The Burg and All-For-Nots co-creator Kathleen Grace as head of programming. The studio also announced in the release that a reorganizing of the company, creating two new divisions, an Audience Development Group and a Programming division. Grace will head up programming along with Barely Political founder Ben Relles while Nnn co-founder Tim Shey will be managing this new "audience development" team. Last week, the channel launched a new series, The Reel Good Show, promoting host Bobby Miller to a more regular gig. This week marked the return of the Streamy Award-winning web series that started Indy Mogul, Backyard FX, which kicked off its third season. Indy Mogul founder Erik Beck is back as host of the indie filmmaking channel's flagship show. Related News:...
- 7/16/2009
- by Marc Hustvedt
- Tubefilter.com
Almost a year ago, The All-For-Nots played their first gig at Manhattan’s Mercury Lounge. Tonight, at Machless in Williamsburg, they will play what could possibly be their last. The band that was born from Michael Eisner’s new media studio, Vuguru and conceived by Kathleetn Grace and Thom Woodley of The Burg and Dinosaur Diorama Productions ended its self-titled web series in late August. The “Synth-Pop Indie-Electro-Folk-Emo-Dance-Gazer-Punk-Americana-Pop Prog-Rock-Emo” fivesome of Johnny, Caleb, Paul, Shirley, and Farrah seemed to be flirting with the idea of going on tour, but sometimes life imitates art. Thom explained over email: “In a surprising turn of events, it turned out very much like our original series - interpersonal drama, musical differences, lack of money. If people want to know what happened to the band, and how a band can fall apart at the same time it’s blowing up, they should go watch The All-For-Nots.
- 12/5/2008
- by Joshua Cohen
- Tilzy.tv
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