Pioneer One is a Webby-nominated dramatic sci-fi online original series about Martian cosmonauts created by Josh Bernhard and Bracey Smith and funded by a successful Kickstarter campaign and subsequent fan donations. Its sixth and final episode was released in December 2011 by way of the BitTorrent-friendly Vodo distribution network. By then, installments of the series had been downloaded a total of 3.5 million times and viewers had contributed nearly $100,000 to see the story to completion. That’s not a bad ending for Bernhard and Smith’s first foray into creating compelling content by way of crowd-funding, so the pair just launched another Kickstarter campaign to see if they can duplicate (or do better than) their previous results. Control is a pilot for another dramatics series set in the “Mission Control of a manned space mission, written as a hybrid of Apollo13 and The Westing Wing in style and tone.” Here’s the...
- 4/17/2012
- by Joshua Cohen
- Tubefilter.com
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