by Drew Baldwin on July 31st, 2009
Last night the excitement in the air was electrifying at the Red Carpet Opening Night Gala for the 4th Annual Independent Television Festival, festival for independently produced, original and innovative television pilots and web series. ITVFest offers opportunities for web television creators like showcasing their work to a live audience and the chance to pitch development executives that can bring their projects to the next level.
On Monday, August 3 Tubefilter is proudly presenting ITVFest Web Television Day, which features screenings of the Official Web Series Selections from the ITVFest,
by Drew Baldwin on June 22nd, 2009
What a busy beginning to the summer! May and June were filled with web television events: Shira Lazar’s GeekOut! ‘09, the Independent Television Festival Launch Party, launch parties for new web series The Gloomers, Road to the Altar, and The Day Player, new Web TV Meetups in New York, and of course Tubefilter’s monthly downtown New Media Vault events.
We heard a lot of feedback since our last Hollywood Web TV Meetup in April at Avalon Hollywood, and we are thrilled to announce Tubefilter’s July Web Television Meetup at Busby’s East in Los Angeles’ Miracle Mile is going to be our best one yet! Web television juggernauts Alex Albrecht and Hayden Black will be sharing with us their secrets to becoming the “undisputed sexiest men in web television,” and offer some sneak peeks of their upcoming projects. This is truly the meetup you do not want to miss!
by Pat Miller on June 4th, 2009
I would have never have guessed that the latest thing to do would be to watch people play video games. Even when I wrote up Project Lore, I kind of figured that was more of a testament to the World of Warcraft fanbase than anything else. Enter Pwndcast, the latest web series to prove me wrong – it consists of basically watching some guys play games (first-person shooters, usually) for the duration of a ten-minute episode.
On the game-watching spectrum, watching Pwndcast is kind of like watching a handful of mid-thirties men play a pickup game of basketball; you’re not in it for the professional-caliber play, and it won’t appeal to anyone trying to pick up any new tournament strategies. It is, however, a refreshing change of pace to watch Christian, Puna, Timothy, Jake, and whoever else opts to join in on the night’s events (Season 1 consists mostly of Battlefield 2 and Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare) engage in a few rounds of good-natured gaming and equally good-natured trash talk. If that sounds like your kind of thing, go check it out here, and if it doesn’t sound like your thing, well, give it a shot anyway because you might be surprised.
by Pat Miller on February 3rd, 2009
To be honest, I was a little bit baffled when I stumbled across Project Lore. After all, one would think that if you’re not the kind of person who likes to play World of Warcraft, you’re probably not the kind of person who would want to watch somebody else play World of Warcraft, and if you do like playing World of Warcraft, then you’d probably rather play it yourself instead of watch. As it turns out, I was surprised by Project Lore, which manages to appeal to my gaming geek sensibilities despite my avoidance of all things WoW.
The Project Lore team consists of five WoW-holics: the leader, Alex Albrecht, co-host of Diggnation and formerly of The Screen Savers, is the creator/host of the show (and the party Rogue). Albrecht launched the series back in June of last year, backed up by Hunter-playing Zand “Dorkins” Broumand, Joshua Brentano, who tanks for the team when he’s not Executive Producer of G4’s Attack of the Show, Healer Jerry Trainor of iCarly, and Managing Editor/Team Asskicker Brandon Sato.
