For some people, creating makeup videos on YouTube is a form of self-expression. For others, the goal is to inspire others. For Maxine, the protagonist of a new web series called Max Compact, using cosmetic products serves as a trigger through which she can activate clairvoyant powers. In that regard, she’s just a bit different from the typical beauty guru.
Maxine, portrayed by Giullianna Martinez, is depicted as one of several people in the Max Compact world who have picked up bizarre super powers. In her case, the application of a little lipstick allows her to see the future. Over the course of 12 episodes, we get a glimpse into Maxine’s personal life and watch as she learns to control her abilities.
Max Compact, created by Jo-Dean Roark and produced by online video vet Jenni Powell, works because it is both ambitiously plotted and deceptively simple. The series asks...
Maxine, portrayed by Giullianna Martinez, is depicted as one of several people in the Max Compact world who have picked up bizarre super powers. In her case, the application of a little lipstick allows her to see the future. Over the course of 12 episodes, we get a glimpse into Maxine’s personal life and watch as she learns to control her abilities.
Max Compact, created by Jo-Dean Roark and produced by online video vet Jenni Powell, works because it is both ambitiously plotted and deceptively simple. The series asks...
- 2/3/2017
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
Today, Fullscreen, in association with Epic Robot TV, has announced the return of the beloved series “The New Adventures of Peter and Wendy” for an 18-episode third season. Set in the magical town of Neverland, Ohio, the series follows Peter Pan (Kyle Walters), a man-child cartoonist in his late 20s, and Wendy Darling (Paula Rhodes) as adults living in Neverland surrounded by their motley crew of family and friends. Pan struggles between maintaining his youth and losing a link to his best friend and longtime crush.
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The series was created by Kyle Walters and Shawn deLoache, who also serves as the series’ writer. It co-stars Percy Daggs III (“Veronica Mars”) and Jim Beaver (“Deadwood”) and is produced by Walters, deLoache, Rhodes and Jenni Powell (“The Lizzie Bennet Diaries”).
Launched in April 2016, Fullscreen is a commercial-free subscription...
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The series was created by Kyle Walters and Shawn deLoache, who also serves as the series’ writer. It co-stars Percy Daggs III (“Veronica Mars”) and Jim Beaver (“Deadwood”) and is produced by Walters, deLoache, Rhodes and Jenni Powell (“The Lizzie Bennet Diaries”).
Launched in April 2016, Fullscreen is a commercial-free subscription...
- 12/15/2016
- by Vikram Murthi
- Indiewire
YouTube was a strange phenomenon at its start, as many didn’t know what to do with it. Aspiring filmmakers Miles Beckett and Mesh Flinders, however, slowly realized that it was an opportunity for a rather new kind of storytelling — one that lives again today.
In a recent interview with Vocativ, Beckett said, “I thought about how I didn’t know if any of the videos on YouTube were real or not — you kind of blur the lines of reality and fiction.” With that inspiration, the pair created a YouTube channel called “Lonelygirl15” on June 16, 2006, which utilized video blogging (“vlogging”) to tell the story of Bree Avery and her family’s strange cult society, known as the Order.
Thought to be one of if not the first of its kind, the series quickly shot off the ground, getting half a million views on a video for the first time only months after it started. When it all wrapped up, the videos had garnered over 60 million views. And 10 years to the date after the first episode, Bree is back.
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Miles Beckett, Jenni Powell — a producer behind the Emmy-winning “The Lizzie Bennett Diaries” — and more have teamed up to bring viewers back to the world of “Lonelygirl15.” Powell said in an email announcing the show’s return that “the hope is to not only tie up storylines for fans of the original series but to bring the show to a whole new audience while utilizing technologies that weren’t available 10 years ago to create new storytelling experiences.”
The re-entry video brings up a lot of the lore of the show, diving deep into the strange, cult elements with both dialogue and video editing. And so it might be time to catch up with what was a cultural phenomenon 10 years ago — to prepare for what may be a new phenomenon today.
Check out lonelygirl15’s return in the video below.
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In a recent interview with Vocativ, Beckett said, “I thought about how I didn’t know if any of the videos on YouTube were real or not — you kind of blur the lines of reality and fiction.” With that inspiration, the pair created a YouTube channel called “Lonelygirl15” on June 16, 2006, which utilized video blogging (“vlogging”) to tell the story of Bree Avery and her family’s strange cult society, known as the Order.
Thought to be one of if not the first of its kind, the series quickly shot off the ground, getting half a million views on a video for the first time only months after it started. When it all wrapped up, the videos had garnered over 60 million views. And 10 years to the date after the first episode, Bree is back.
Read More: Experiencing ‘Girls’ Withdrawal? Here are the 14 Best Female-Centered Web Series
Miles Beckett, Jenni Powell — a producer behind the Emmy-winning “The Lizzie Bennett Diaries” — and more have teamed up to bring viewers back to the world of “Lonelygirl15.” Powell said in an email announcing the show’s return that “the hope is to not only tie up storylines for fans of the original series but to bring the show to a whole new audience while utilizing technologies that weren’t available 10 years ago to create new storytelling experiences.”
The re-entry video brings up a lot of the lore of the show, diving deep into the strange, cult elements with both dialogue and video editing. And so it might be time to catch up with what was a cultural phenomenon 10 years ago — to prepare for what may be a new phenomenon today.
Check out lonelygirl15’s return in the video below.
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- 6/16/2016
- by Kyle Kizu
- Indiewire
When it launched on June 16, 2006, Lonelygirl15 broke the digital mold. What seemed like a run-of-the-mill vlog created by a teenage everygirl named Bree turned out to be an intricately orchestrated fictional series -- with groundbreaking interactive features and sci-fi plot twists -- that was light years ahead of the curve in terms of showcasing YouTube’s potential as a platform for scripted content.
And now, on this -- the very day 10 years ago that Bree uploaded her first vlog -- some of the minds behind the series are readying a reprisal of sorts. Lonelygirl co-creator Miles Beckett and Jenni Powell, who was a die-hard fan before being hired as a production assistant on the show, tell Tubefilter that they are teaming to create new content within the Lonelygirl universe.
“There hasn’t been new Lonelygirl content since 2008,” says Beckett, who created the series alongside Greg Goodfried, who is currently an agent at UTA, and Mesh Flinders, an associate creative director at communications company Havas. “But there’s always been interest -- the channel still gets hundreds of thousands of views, it's constantly being referenced by other YouTubers, and we’ve had a lot of fans asking for more.”
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And now, on this -- the very day 10 years ago that Bree uploaded her first vlog -- some of the minds behind the series are readying a reprisal of sorts. Lonelygirl co-creator Miles Beckett and Jenni Powell, who was a die-hard fan before being hired as a production assistant on the show, tell Tubefilter that they are teaming to create new content within the Lonelygirl universe.
“There hasn’t been new Lonelygirl content since 2008,” says Beckett, who created the series alongside Greg Goodfried, who is currently an agent at UTA, and Mesh Flinders, an associate creative director at communications company Havas. “But there’s always been interest -- the channel still gets hundreds of thousands of views, it's constantly being referenced by other YouTubers, and we’ve had a lot of fans asking for more.”
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- 6/16/2016
- by Geoff Weiss
- Tubefilter.com
Project Name: The New Adventures of Peter + Wendy
Asking For: $50,000 on Indiegogo
Amount Raised Thus Far (At Time Of Post): $35 -- the campaign was just launched.
Days Remaining In Campaign (At Time Of Post): 30
Description: A web series that breathes new life into J.M. Barrie's most famous work is looking to pick up a third season. The New Adventures of Peter + Wendy, which applies a digital twist to the world of Peter Pan, has returned to Indiegogo in order to fund a new batch of episodes.
In Peter + Wendy, Kyle Walters portrays Peter, an exuberant young man who never wants to leave his hometown of Neverland, Ohio. His friend Wendy, played by Paula Rhodes, has other ideas, and the romantic tension between them has driven Peter + Wendy through a pair of charming seasons.
With its literary setup and its use of transmedia tie-ins, Peter + Wendy fits squarely...
Asking For: $50,000 on Indiegogo
Amount Raised Thus Far (At Time Of Post): $35 -- the campaign was just launched.
Days Remaining In Campaign (At Time Of Post): 30
Description: A web series that breathes new life into J.M. Barrie's most famous work is looking to pick up a third season. The New Adventures of Peter + Wendy, which applies a digital twist to the world of Peter Pan, has returned to Indiegogo in order to fund a new batch of episodes.
In Peter + Wendy, Kyle Walters portrays Peter, an exuberant young man who never wants to leave his hometown of Neverland, Ohio. His friend Wendy, played by Paula Rhodes, has other ideas, and the romantic tension between them has driven Peter + Wendy through a pair of charming seasons.
With its literary setup and its use of transmedia tie-ins, Peter + Wendy fits squarely...
- 3/2/2016
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
Hello, my name is Jenni Powell and I am excited.
For those not familiar, I’ve been producing and creating in the digital media space since 2006. I started out in the fan community of lonelygirl15 (Rip Bree) and went on to work on The Guild and many other early scripted web series. I went on to produce the Emmy Award Winning The Lizzie Bennet Diaries and Emma Approved. I currently am a producer on The New Adventures of Peter and Wendy and an Executive Producer and Co-Creator on Adi Shankar’s Gods and Secrets. I have a very deep love and passion for what I do and the digital media space as a whole.
But I also have another love. One I keep close to my heart, but that anyone who really knows me has witnessed the great excitement and fulfillment it brings me. I have even converted some people...
For those not familiar, I’ve been producing and creating in the digital media space since 2006. I started out in the fan community of lonelygirl15 (Rip Bree) and went on to work on The Guild and many other early scripted web series. I went on to produce the Emmy Award Winning The Lizzie Bennet Diaries and Emma Approved. I currently am a producer on The New Adventures of Peter and Wendy and an Executive Producer and Co-Creator on Adi Shankar’s Gods and Secrets. I have a very deep love and passion for what I do and the digital media space as a whole.
But I also have another love. One I keep close to my heart, but that anyone who really knows me has witnessed the great excitement and fulfillment it brings me. I have even converted some people...
- 2/12/2016
- by Jenni Powell
- Tubefilter.com
Here's your daily dose of an indie film, web series, TV pilot, what-have-you in progress -- at the end of the week, you'll have the chance to vote for your favorite. In the meantime: Is this a project you’d want to see? Tell us in the comments. Dark Detour 2: All That Glitters Logline: A real-time, multi-platform horror story for Halloween, in which you can become part of the story. Elevator Pitch: Dark Detour is a Halloween horror anthology series told in real-time through social media and more. Happening every year in the days leading up to Halloween night, the audience will virtually travel in real-time with our main characters (more like hapless victims) as they descend deeper and deeper into a place from which there seems no escape. Production Team: Brought to you by Steve Peters (No Mimes Media), Alison Norrington (storycentral), Jenni Powell (Discourse Productions) and Nick Tierce.
- 9/3/2015
- by Indiewire
- Indiewire
Project Name: Dark Detour, Season 2: All That Glitters
Asking For: $3,031 on Indiegogo
Amount Raised Thus Far (At Time Of Post): $3,244
Days Remaining In Campaign (At Time Of Post): 15
Description: Dark Detour originally started as a Halloween comedy-horror story which took place across multiple platforms. Audience members can directly partake in the storytelling process by following the characters in real time on Twitter or other social media outlets. The second season of Dark Detour will continue the multi-platform format, but this time around the story will be a romantic thriller. Taking place in the days leading up to Halloween, All That Glitters will introduce audiences to a London-based wedding photographer who meets a barmaid in the western part of England, but their love eventually takes them to a place they have no hope of escaping from.
Creator Bio: Behind Dark Detour is a more than qualified team. The...
Asking For: $3,031 on Indiegogo
Amount Raised Thus Far (At Time Of Post): $3,244
Days Remaining In Campaign (At Time Of Post): 15
Description: Dark Detour originally started as a Halloween comedy-horror story which took place across multiple platforms. Audience members can directly partake in the storytelling process by following the characters in real time on Twitter or other social media outlets. The second season of Dark Detour will continue the multi-platform format, but this time around the story will be a romantic thriller. Taking place in the days leading up to Halloween, All That Glitters will introduce audiences to a London-based wedding photographer who meets a barmaid in the western part of England, but their love eventually takes them to a place they have no hope of escaping from.
Creator Bio: Behind Dark Detour is a more than qualified team. The...
- 8/26/2015
- by Bree Brouwer
- Tubefilter.com
Fans of the web series The New Adventures of Peter + Wendy (Napw) can start celebrating. The second season of the modern adaptation of J.M. Barrie’s Peter and Wendy will debut on June 12, 2015.
Napw stars Kyle Walters as Peter Pan and Paula Rhodes as Wendy Darling, two long-time friends from Neverland, Ohio with very different ideas about growing up. The second season of the web series will re-introduce viewers to Peter and Wendy, after the latter left Neverland to pursue the job of her dreams despite Peter’s growing affections for her. Napw season two will, according to the series’ creative team, show “old loves wilt while new loves blossom,” and introduce old enemies who will test the friendships of characters established in the first season.
Napw is structured much like the Lizzie Bennet Diaries, with Wendy vlogging her daily experiences and Peter talking to the camera as if it were his friend,...
Napw stars Kyle Walters as Peter Pan and Paula Rhodes as Wendy Darling, two long-time friends from Neverland, Ohio with very different ideas about growing up. The second season of the web series will re-introduce viewers to Peter and Wendy, after the latter left Neverland to pursue the job of her dreams despite Peter’s growing affections for her. Napw season two will, according to the series’ creative team, show “old loves wilt while new loves blossom,” and introduce old enemies who will test the friendships of characters established in the first season.
Napw is structured much like the Lizzie Bennet Diaries, with Wendy vlogging her daily experiences and Peter talking to the camera as if it were his friend,...
- 5/8/2015
- by Bree Brouwer
- Tubefilter.com
In anticipation of their nearly-funded season two, the creators of The New Adventures of Peter + Wendy just announced the addition of two new cast members. Meghan Camarena, known as Strawburry17 on YouTube, and Jim Beaver of Supernatural fame will be joining the series as Billie Jukes and Mr. Darling, respectively. With a channel full of 770,000+ adoring fans, Camarena’s also known from shows such as The Amazing Race and Video Game High School. Her character, Billie Jukes, is based off the pirate Bill Jukes and will befriend Wendy Darling while the two work at Hook’s company. "Meghan has always been someone I admire in terms of how she's really looking to the future of the digital space,” states Jenni Powell, the show’s producer, in an email to Tubefilter. “She's one of the only YouTube personalities I know that is exclusively shooting all her content in 4K. She's been...
- 8/25/2014
- by Bree Brouwer
- Tubefilter.com
Growing a channel on YouTube is still a new endeavor, but for some it seems to be proving quite fruitful. Felicia day started her channel, Geek & Sundry, last spring and to this day it continues to grow. Not only has it renewed two of its programs for second seasons – Tabletop and Space Janitors – but it’s been adding new programs as well. The YouTube channeling is looking to continue its expansion by launching its own talent search with the Geek & Sundry Vlogs Channel. In a nutshell, it’s like American Idol but with vloggers. And that’s a very small nutshell, so don’t expect it to be anything so typical.
The Multi-Channel Network was launched Monday, May 20, of which the Vlogs Channel is a part. According to THR, Day and producer Jenni Powell will act as mentors to 20 vloggers, with each vlogger getting support from Geek & Sundry and a per-video stipend.
The Multi-Channel Network was launched Monday, May 20, of which the Vlogs Channel is a part. According to THR, Day and producer Jenni Powell will act as mentors to 20 vloggers, with each vlogger getting support from Geek & Sundry and a per-video stipend.
- 5/21/2013
- by Brody Gibson
- Boomtron
Celebrate the Web announced today the winners of its sixth festival: The Belle and the Bot and Political Machine. The Belle and the Bot, from MovieFilm Productions out of Brooklyn, New York, earned the Judge’s Prize, and Los Angeles, California-based Transplant Productions took home the Audience Choice honors for Political Machine. Ctw’s Jenni Powell, Logan Rapp,
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- 6/7/2012
- by Drew Baldwin
- Tubefilter.com
Twenty-five teams are battling it out in the sixth edition of Celebrate The Web, a competition that challenges creators to produce a web pilot in seven days within given themes and elements. Audiences can vote now for their favorite pilots once a day until Thursday, May 31 at 10:00 am Pt. Winners will be announced Live at TheLip.tv on June 5, and the winning pilots, one for Audience Choice and one for Judge's Choice—will be screened at VidCon's Industry Day on June 28. [Find out more about Celebrate the Web, VidCon, and other online video industry events by signing up for Tubefilter Radar, a digest of all the events that you should be tracking.] This festival's theme is "Level Up," and the organizers have been kicking things up a notch. "For Celebrate the Web 6, we really wanted to continue to up the ante and I think we've done that," Jenni Powell, Ctw's Co-Creator
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- 5/21/2012
- by Drew Baldwin
- Tubefilter.com
There’s a lot of talk about money in online video lately. Who’s getting licensing deals, 7-figure advances, funding rounds—yet in the hubbub it’s too easy to take our eyes off the broader context of how the internet is reshaping entertainment. Last night in La, at Celebrate the Web’s screening of hastily-made web series pilots was a welcomed reminder that the independent, cooperative, sure-i-can-help-you-out attitude that underlies this whole creative revolution is alive and well. And that’s a very good thing. Sure, it doesn’t hurt that there was some cash on the line—$500 grants to each of the two overall winning teams—along with a development deal with online comedy network My Damn Channel. But ultimately this was as festival about just getting out there any shooting something, rather than just talking about shooting something. Enough burying the lead. Out of the sixteen pilots in the competition,...
- 11/17/2011
- by Marc Hustvedt
- Tubefilter.com
spiring and professional web series creators around the world, are you in need of some motivation? Do you have an idea you’ve been kicking around for the greatest piece of online entertainment ever, but lack of a production crew, minimal resources, or the overwhelming weight of inertia is holding you back from making it happen? Or are you all about creating web series all the time and want a great excuse to get another pilot under your belt and an aggregate 12 hours of sleep over the course of one week? Celebrate the Web has just the festival for you. Jenni Powell, Kim Evey, Taryn O’Neill, and Stephanie Thorpe are bringing back the event that celebrates the “new media/web video community of creators and supporters” for its fourth iteration, dubbed ‘Raising the Bar.’ This time, the event will take the shape of a 24 or 48-hour film festival stretched...
- 2/2/2011
- by Joshua Cohen
- Tubefilter.com
On the heaviest day of Comic-Con, one might think that having a major off-site event, to be held in the midst of some heavy hitting panels, might not be the strongest plan ever conceived. Showing up early to the event at the Bristol Hotel, I watched as some of the finishing touches were applied to the set-up. This was not the last-minute, throw-something-together-in-four-days event from this past April. Nor was it the end-all, be-all of panels. This was simply the next logical step for the web series industry, in a long road to having an entire section of the convention marked out for us. Run by Jenni Powell, Taryn O'Neill and Stephanie Thorpe, Celebrate the Web 2 came together with a different tone from the previous outing. Where the original event did so out of a need to heal some wounds, this time around the tone was stronger: “We’re here to stay,...
- 7/26/2010
- by Logan Rapp
- Tubefilter.com
Film schools have long served as launching pads for film and television careers, and now most major universities offer at least some sort of filmmaking courses, even for those not looking to jump into entertainment. A number of schools have begun looking academically at the impacts of new media on culture and the future of entertainment, but so far the more practical nuts and bolts of web series production and distribution have yet to make it onto into the university course lists. In Los Angeles, two new Web TV education programs have launched this month looking to fill that gap —and at a fraction of a film school tuition. NewMedialocity and Web TV Workshop both offer four-week intro courses for creative types looking to learn how to get an original web series project off the ground. Both take the approach of teaching through experienced guest teachers—those brave souls who...
- 4/28/2010
- by Marc Hustvedt
- Tubefilter.com
On April 15, 2010 a varied group of online entertainment creators gathered at the Acme Comedy Theater to do something they felt needed to be done, to celebrate the innovative and creative content that is being produced and distributed throughout the internet. The event, organized by Kim Evey and Jenni Powell, was designed as a Post Streamys Celebration to help get the web community back on track after a disillusioning weekend. In order to insure the integrity and spontaneity of the evening speakers were selected randomly from names drawn from a Streamy Award itself. This playful attitude set the tone for a fun and uplifting evening. Common themes that were mentioned included the fight for net neutrality, the freedom of the internet, the ability to reach audiences that you may not otherwise be able to, and the ability to be true to your self. After listening to the Streamy winners speak it...
- 4/16/2010
- by Angelique Toschi
- Tubefilter.com
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