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Playback recognized GreenHAT Digital client, iThentic, in its “Best of the Year Issue“. The Toronto-based digital aggregator, producer and distributor was name “Digital Company of the Year” in recognition of it diversified business model.
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Guidestones was the Best in Web Series – Fiction winner at the 2012 Digi Awards. The event took place, last night, at The Carlu in Toronto.
GUIDESTONES, the acclaimed interactive thriller produced by iThentic and 3 o’clock.tv, has won a prestigious ‘Rockie” Award in the Web Series “Fiction” category at the Banff World Media Festival. Accepting the award was Executive Producer, Jonas Diamond.
GreenHAT Digital interactive clients Secret Location and iThentic/3′oclock.tv are at the Banff World Media Festival, the annual meeting of television and digital media professionals.
Fans of the critically-acclaimed web series, GUIDESTONES, can follow the clues for a chance to win free pizza for a year, as part of a promotional campaign organized by Pizza Pizza and producers iThentic and 3 o’clock.tv.
Today is the thirty-second anniversary of the unveiling of the Georgia Guidestones, a large granite monument located in Elbert County, Georgia, and the subject of a new interactive web series produced by iThentic and 3′oclock.tv.
The GUIDESTONES team had a blast at ComiCon Toronto where they presented a panel titled “Wanna know how the world will end?” and handed out swag — lots of swag.
Writer/director Jay Ferguson and actors Supinder Wraich and Dan Fox were on hand to present an exclusive sneak peek of the first five episodes and reveal the story of the mysterious woman who was the inspiration for the story.
GUIDESTONES is a fast-paced thriller in the style of The Da Vinci Code but where the audience takes an active role in solving the mystery. By following clues hidden in each episode, viewers can solve the riddle of The Guidestones along with or ahead of the main characters. Episodes are delivered by email in “real time” as the story unfolds.
Sign-up today and you could join thousands of other seekers in solving the mystery of The Georgia Guidestones.
Another original web series funded by the Independent Production Fund (IPF) is slated to launch next month. Guidestones is an interactive thriller, which delves into the mystery of The Georgia Guidestones and the monument’s connection to the Illuminati and the New World Order.
The series was written and directed by Jay Ferguson and produced by iThentic and 3 o’clock.tv.
Described as “… a cross between The Da Vinci Code and The X-Files“, Guidestones is a fast-paced story of deception, duplicity and murder.
Sandy Rai (Supinder Wraich), an exchange student from India studying journalism in Canada, stumbles upon an unsolved murder while working on assignment with fellow student Trevor Shale (Dan Fox). She learns that the murdered man, a scientist named Harold Glenndenning (David Fox), may have had a connection to The Georgia Guidestones, a monument of unknown origin built in a farmer’s field and inscribed with directions for rebuilding civilization after the apocalypse. Following clues hidden within The Guidestones she discovers that Harold’s death was no random act, and is instead part of a cover-up hiding a global conspiracy of apocalyptic proportions.
Viewers can sign-up now to receive links to the episodes by email. Once the series launches, they’ll be able to follow those links to discover hidden clues in the video episodes and online.
All very mysterious but irresistible to anyone who is into interactive, ARG or transmedia play.
The Independent Production Fund (IPF) has committed to funding web series until 2014. The announcement was made yesterday.
The web series funding program will now become the focus of IPF funding support for the next three years.
The next deadline for applications to the Web Series Program is March 1, 2012.
In 2010, the IPF launched a pilot program to support linear drama series created for new platforms. As a result, web series production took off in Canada.
In the past two years, 330 proposals were submitted to the IPF for web series funding. Twenty-six of these were approved for funding and can be seen on web portals around the world.
The IPF, along with several provincial funding partners, invests over $1.5 M a year in web series. They have been created for every demographic from pre-schoolers to adults representing nearly 2,000 minutes of drama in addition to associated interactive activities and social media.
Among those projects funded in the past two year by the IPF are GreenHAT Digital client productions: BunnyBop!, Guidestones, In the Rough and Ruby Skye, P.I.
The Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund has awarded $3.35 million to 27 applicants in production, low-budget production, development and professional development project categories.
The latest round of funding was announced yesterday.
Projects and productions include: Eat St., Mr. Young, Time Tremors, The Listener, Canada’s Smartest Person, Cross Country Fun Hunt, Vivi, Rock tes bas, The Guide and King.
Forty percent of the funded projects are kids and youth-targeted, forty percent are documentaries and twenty percent are geared to adults.
Three GreenHAT clients qualified for funding, including Smiley Guy Productions (Canada’s Smartest Person), iThentic (Real Therapy Interactive) and Secret Location (King and Groj Band).
Full list can be viewed at the Bell Fund Website.
