The Official Selections of the 4th annual Independent Television Festival have been announced, completing the slate of indie web shows joins series OzGirl and Operation Midnight Climax we teased out last week. The ITVFest is a festival for independently produced, original and innovative television pilots and web series which offers a chance for web television creators to showcase their work to a live audience and the chance to pitch development executives that can bring their projects to the next level. All of the selections are independently produced webseries produced completely on spec and available for further development opportunities. The festival takes place in Los Angeles from July 31st to August 6th. Official 2009 Web Series Selections: 2012 Los Angeles-based producers Jessica Bertulis, Kamali Minter and Helen Truong present this interactive viral and webisode series abouta techno-geek who embarks on a quest to change the future when he intercepts a series of internet...
- 7/6/2009
- by Drew Baldwin
- Tubefilter.com
Sometimes the best stories don't need to be made up, since history is littered with untold gems. Like, say that time the CIA thought it would be a good idea to test their new mind control drugs (Lsd) on unsuspecting "recruits." A new web series from the team at Strange Science, Operation Midnight Climax, tackles this questionable time in post-war Us history. This of course naturally allows for some rather vivid visual shots in the web series, and the stylized 50's sets and camera effects definitely take us along for the trip. The cast is stocked with veteran TV actors—Quinton Flynn plays CIA spook Jake Kowalski and Todd Cahoon stars as his former Army pal Reed Spencer. The pilot episode (above) takes us through the setup of one of the brothels and the recruiting of four "lovely lieutenants" : Millie (Meredith Salenger), June (Stephanie Lemelin), Ethel (Jessica Myerson) and...
- 7/3/2009
- by Marc Hustvedt
- Tubefilter.com
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