There's a Woody Allen reference in the first 30 seconds of the latest and greatest installment of the indy web series duder. Ricky, cooking breakfast in his newly renovated Brooklyn apartment, asks Glen, playing video games in Ricky's newly renovated Brooklyn apartment, if he wants to see a screening of Stardust Memories in McCarren Park. Glen, despite being a huge Woody Allen fan, is apathetic. His reasoning? "It's just going to be so crowded, you know, because everybody in New York City has a deep, personal relationship with Woody Allen movies." It's funny because it's sort of true, but more because duder writer, creator, and actor Matt Kirsch (who plays Glen) is obviously projecting. His relationship with one of America's greatest film directors goes beyond deep and personal and enters the realm of influential and intimate. Kirsch channels Allen (along with other devotees to Allen's particular brand of Jewish, neurotic humor...
- 12/1/2010
- by Joshua Cohen
- Tubefilter.com
New York, Sept. 25, 2010 –The sixth annual New York Television Festival announced the winners of its Independent Pilot Competition, Nytvf People’s Choice award, Fox-nytvf Comedy Script Contest, IFC “Out of the Box” and MTV Animation awards tonight at a ceremony hosted at the Sva Theatre in Manhattan. The winners of the Fox-nytvf Comedy Script Contest, Austen Earl and Luke Cunningham for “Red Delicious,” received a $25,000 prize and a development deal. IFC’s “Out of the Box” award winners Matt Yeager and Jeff Skowron received a $25,000 development deal for their pilot “Greg and Donny.” The Independent Pilot Competition winners were selected from 42 independent television projects created by writers and producers from across the U.S., Canada and the UK. Here is a complete list of the awards and their winners. Nytvf Special Competition Winners Voted by popular choice at Festival screenings to honor the audience’s favorite submission in the Independent Pilot Competition,...
- 9/26/2010
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
The Webventures of Justin & Alden might have one of the deepest casts of web series notables that we’ve seen to date. Fitting, since the new five-episode branded comedy web series from Cjp Digital Media and lead sponsor Trident Layers (disclosure: Trident is also a Streamy Awards sponsor) is all about two would-be internet-famos set to find web video glory by making “the greatest Web series Web show that’s ever been on the Web computer.” Justin Tyler and Alden Ford, both regulars at sketch comedy theater Ucb in New York, star as the hapless titular duo in this Bill and Ted’s-style (yes, there’s even some time travel) road trip. The destination of this road trip is the Streamy Awards in Los Angeles in hopes of finding the perfect web star. Guests of this year’s Streamys may have noticed these two crashing the red carpet and even...
- 4/24/2010
- by Marc Hustvedt
- Tubefilter.com
Technically this one isn't a full-on web series yet, but it's too good to pass up. Just in time for the season finale of AMC's Mad Men this weekend comes a spot-on parody of the hit cable series. Created by the guys (Matt Fisher, Alden Ford and Justin Tyler) at Sidecar Comedy for Atom.com, this four minute wonder dubbed Milk Men takes all the drama, double-crossing and fornication of the 60's ad agency and takes in into the world of milk delivery. Oh, and there's and smoking, lots of smoking—even babies smoking. There's even the lipstick on a pig ad man orations over the joy that is fresh milk. We've had our eye on the Brooklyn-based Sidecar guys every since Nytvf where they snagged "Best Writing" honors for their pilot Homeschooled (below). Related News:Atom TV Back For 4 More Weeks of Comedy Central’s Web FlirtingAtom’s ‘My Profile...
- 11/5/2009
- by Marc Hustvedt
- Tubefilter.com
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