I’m doing most of my blogging these days over on the Ruby Skye P.I. temporary site where I have gone so far as to start a video blog. That is a bit of a horrifying experience. First, you have to stare at your own image on your computer screen while you’re recording the blog and […]
We got the good word on Friday June 18, 2010; an email from Andra Sheffer, Executive Director of the Independent Production Fund, informing us that Eye to Eye With Ruby Skye would receive funding from the IPF. Yay, yay and double yay!
On the following Tuesday, I sat down with Kerry Young and Karen Walton, my […]
I was quite interested when the press release from CTV mentioned original web series.
Only at CTV.ca can viewers also find new webisode series BLOOD CELL, ERIC THE TRAINER, THE LAKE, and PUSHED.
I clicked through to take a look; I didn’t get to the web series. The original links from the release are preserved above […]
The Independent Production Fund’s Pilot Program will support 11 web drama series with an $1.2 M equity investment.
This unique funding program was created to support the exploration and potential for high quality, story driven drama for web audiences. The selection process required the evaluation of 166 applications which were short-listed to 26 web series from […]
Can someone please explain this to me? It’s from an email I got today about OMDC tax credits for web series.
The OMDC has provided this information re web series tax credit eligibility (or non-eligibility!) to try to clarify the regulations. Basically, unless 50% of the project is not interactive material, a web series is not […]
Developing Eye to Eye With Ruby Skye proposal for the next stage of the IPF’s Web Drama Series program is like being king for a day. I get to put together my dream team.
Eye to Eye With Ruby Skye is a serialized detective series for tweens. Action, comedy and suspense. A kind of next gen […]
Everything’s coming up web series these days. Latest: hitvidi’s call for entries into its hit video web pilot competition… All right, maybe it isn’t “latest” exactly. Deadline’s May 1 which doesn’t leave you a lot of time to get your act together.
What do you got to do?
Create a hit web show of any kind
comedy, prank, […]
Here are the Independent Production Fund Web Drama Series Pre-Selection results. 166 applied, 26 have been asked to submit complete production applications by May 1, 2010.
These are the 26 projects:
11 Règles
Whimz Studio
Producer: Steve Kerr
Writer: André Gulluni
Director: Yan Lanouette-Turgeon
The Agent C
Ravenhead Productions
Steve Cochrane, Phyllis Ellis, Adriana Maggs
Beer Goggles
Decode Entertainment Inc.
Greydon Laing, Beth Stevenson
The Brothers McElroy
Zeros […]
Just for Laughs Comedy Conference announced a pitch competition for comedy web series. I’ve read the guidelines which are sort of on the confusing side. Even the title of the thing is confusing:
“PITCH ‘TIL YOUR SIDES SPLIT” JUST FOR LAUGHS COMEDY CONFERENCE PITCH PROGRAM and the COMEDY BOOTCAMP FOR FILM
This is how […]
Rob Mills is always up to something cool, most recently he’s created Konk’s Blog, A Field Guide to the Monster Slaying. A web series doesn’t have to be expensive or have enormous production values. It needs to be creative and cool, as Rob so aptly proves.
He’s posted three episodes in the last three weeks and […]
