IndieWorks: Insider Series w/ Felix Thompson

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Part of our effort for IndieWorks is to help indie filmmakers outside of our monthly screenings. Each month we're bringing our winning filmmakers to chat with IndieWorks host Lauren A. Kennedy for a bi-monthly series titled "IndieWorks: Insider Series".

EPISODE 2

Last month, our Silver Whiskers award was given to Felix Thompson's submission, "The Third One This Week". The film has gained some attention worldwide and has been deemed a Vimeo Staff Pick, with nearly 30k views at the time of this update. It's a beautiful four minute short film that we're sure you're going to enjoy if you haven't checked it out already.

We invited Felix to speak with us this month to get to know a bit about his background, what contributes to his work, and his team over at Buffalo Picture House. 

For more information on Felix and his team, check out:
http://buffalopicturehouse.com
Twitter: @buffalopictures
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/buffalopictures

 

Source: https://vimeo.com/73101788

Kelsey, the webseries

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It's taken a while for us to update about "Kelsey" but I figure today is a good day because we have a lot of exciting news! We wrapped production on the 1st season on July 29th! We shot all 10 episodes in 15 shooting days; the average episode length is 7 minutes. We released our promo trailer for the series 2 weeks ago on our Vimeo channel and it has gotten 2,383 full plays as of this evening!

 

 

Promo trailer for our web series "Kelsey" premiering on KelseyTheSeries.com & Blip on September 10th! Like it on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Kelseytheseries Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/KelseyTheSeries

The trailer has also been uploaded to our Facebook page and has received 51 Likes and who knows how many plays! Our trailer was featured this week on both OneMoreLesbian.com & AfterEllen.com, and got really awesome comments like "Kelsey looks pretty funny and awkward. Right up my alley!" & "I'm game for some Kelsey. Bring it on." Unfortunately, the majority of comments were about how much lead actress Nichole Yannetty looks like Maya Rudolph. But hey, at least they're all engaging with the trailer! I'm sure those kinds of comments will increase as our numbers increase. But hopefully, with each episode, that'll become less of a focal point and the comments will be more about how hilarious and talented Nichole is, and how enjoyable the show is as a whole!   

We put the trailer on Youtube yesterday and the numbers & likes are still modest, but sure to rise this week. There are more exciting press features and news to announce this week as well!  

We have picture lock on the first 3 episodes & we finally nailed down our theme song. We're sure to make more progress in the next couple weeks and simply cannot wait to premiere the 1st episode on September 10th! So be sure to tune in on KelseyTheSeries.com (site still in construction). And Like the series on Facebook & Follow on Twitter for updates everday on our post-producton progress and inside info when episodes air! 

 -Christina 

 

 

Behind the Scenes of Shooting 'Juice It'

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I decided to take my experience trying a 7-day juice cleanse with my boyfriend and turn it into an absurd comedy, casting Nichole Yannetty (of our upcoming webseries 'Kelsey') and Ricardo Manigat from Summit, with a few of the people who helped shoot 'Kelsey,' and on literally no budget. It was a ton of fun & I'm excited to jump into post with this short. 

IndieWorks: August Series Recap'd!

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Even with the rain, we had a great turnout for last week's August IndieWorks series event. We're pleased to have had a great lineup of films, filmmakers, and make new friends from our audience. 

The awards go to...

At the end of the evening, we announced our winning filmmakers for both Audience Choice Award & Silver Whiskers Award. The Audience Choice Award is voted upon by all those in attendance, and the Silver Whiskers is judged by the CongestedCat Team based on a system rating 8 categories of Story, Dialogue/Writing, Direction, Acting, Cinematography, Sound, Editing, and Production Value. It goes on to screen at our end of the year Best of Fest event.

For the August 2013 lineup, our winning filmmakers were:
    Audience Choice Award:  "Allo" Directed by Demetrius Wren.

    Silver Whiskers Award:  "Prom Night" Directed by Celia Rowlson-Hall. 

Both filmmakers will be featured in our upcoming "IndieWorks: Insider Series", a video series we are featuring on our blog, in which we get to know each filmmaker and learn about their creative processes, insight on the industry, upcoming projects, and more! It's another way for us to further our commitment to getting local New York City filmmakers connected to their local community. The series will be released bi-monthly, following each IndieWorks screening event, and hosted by Lauren A Kennedy.

Next Month - Webseries!

Next month's IndieWorks event is specifically catered to webseries created by local filmmakers. As part of that theme, we'll be having an advance preview of our own webseries, "Kelsey: The Webseries" for all attending. It's not part of the competition, since that would be biased, y'know. Select members of the cast & crew will at the event to hang out and enjoy the other pilots as well. Definitely going to be a great night to check out IndieWorks. 

Thanks to all the filmmakers & film enthusiasts who came to support one another. We look forward to seeing you next month! And, be on the lookout for the next episode of the Insider Series rolling out next week, featuring Felix Thompson, Director of "The Third One This Week".