The recent passage of the Jobs act may be the shot in the arm the indie film business needs to reignite the lackluster funding in recent years. What's exciting is that it's opening up the crowdfunding market past your typical cadre of friends and family who are making a donation to Kickstarter or Indiegogo without any expectation of return. Maria Bozzi, Director of Education at Film Independent, noted "The Jobs Act could help filmmakers get the interest of other individuals, unrelated to the subject matter or filmmaker, who might want to dip their toes in the waters of filmmaking by investing in projects that promise them a piece of the pie in the form of equity." So what can the aspiring indie filmmaker do in anticipation of attracting these new investors? The online crowdfunding world is a big, noisy place and it's not always easy to make a splash. It...
- 4/17/2012
- by Gina Hall
- Moviefone
Actor/Producer Stephanie Thorpe - whose acclaimed, fan-made ElfQuest trailer premiered at WonderCon 2011 - is returning to this year's convention for a panel aimed at female geeks.
Stephanie will host the Geek Girls Create panel at WonderCon 2012, in Anaheim, California, where she will be joined by Leah Cevoli (Robot Chicken, Jedi Camp), Kristen Nedopak (Fight Class, Think Hero TV), Jessica Mills (Awkward Embraces), Crix Lee (Girl Gamer, The Frame Rate) and Helenna Santos Levy (Girl and Boy, American Reunion).
She said: "Geek Girls Create will bring together a group of talented women who have taken their love of the geek life and turned it into a career. These geek girls direct, produce, act, host and embody geek culture, creating their own award-winning content for film, TV and the web."
Thorpe has been featured at numerous conventions across the USA including San Diego Comic-Con. Pop Culture Monster has named her one...
Stephanie will host the Geek Girls Create panel at WonderCon 2012, in Anaheim, California, where she will be joined by Leah Cevoli (Robot Chicken, Jedi Camp), Kristen Nedopak (Fight Class, Think Hero TV), Jessica Mills (Awkward Embraces), Crix Lee (Girl Gamer, The Frame Rate) and Helenna Santos Levy (Girl and Boy, American Reunion).
She said: "Geek Girls Create will bring together a group of talented women who have taken their love of the geek life and turned it into a career. These geek girls direct, produce, act, host and embody geek culture, creating their own award-winning content for film, TV and the web."
Thorpe has been featured at numerous conventions across the USA including San Diego Comic-Con. Pop Culture Monster has named her one...
- 3/7/2012
- by David Bentley
- The Geek Files
Jessica Mills, as much as she would like to make you laugh, would like to make you cringe. But, like a lap-dance recipient who thinks he's got an outside shot at a date, still wants you to hold out hope. Awkward Embraces is her buddy series about some of the finer and more detailed ephemera of dating and, to a lesser extent, hooking up (from the awkward first hello to the even more awkward first move, the latter of which are in very short supply in the show). Mills stars as 'Jessica,' along with her pals Candis (Candis Phlegm; yes- that's what the credit says) and Lyndsey (Doolen). As the dominate dater in the group, Jessica is most frequently found sharing the results of her misguided exploits to her gal-pals at home or to Candis at work. Candis and Lyndsey, for their parts, are given occasional forums for their...
- 2/24/2011
- by Michael Shaw
- Tubefilter.com
It's in the fourth episode of the geek-girl web series, Awkward Embraces, that the show finds its stride, when series' lead, Jessica Mills, recounts to her two best friends, Lyndsey and Candis, the morning after a one-night stand . After drinking too much and "accidentally" having sex with a skeezy guy, Jessica wakes up hung over and remorseful. Even still, etiquette and appearance is foremost in her mind. She doesn't want to be thought of as a dirty whore, so she shakes the skeezy guy awake and inelegantly intimates that they should grab breakfast together. Either too tired or too skeezy to pick up on the clues, skeezy guy grunts dismissively. Jessica then tries to shake off the awkwardness by offering to go get him a donut. However, too humiliated to follow through on her polite gesture and compound her walk of shame, Jessica ultimately returns only to leave the donut...
- 2/24/2011
- by Dustin Rowles
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