With just 2.5 million viewers during it’s third and final season on the CW Network, VERONICA MARS, a TV series about a young female sleuth and her detective father, was cancelled in 2007.

The audience might have been too small to justify the show’s renewal to Warner Brothers, the rights’ holder, but it’s  passion was anything but. More like a cult following, fans of the series soon began to clamor for VERONICA MARS, the movie.

The studio passed on the idea, but series creator, Rob Thomas, and star, Kristen Bell, with Warner Brother’s permission, decided to launch a VERONICA MARS Kickstarter campaign  to try to raise the necessary production funds themselves. And, the fans responded in spades.

Some thoughts from Rick Pagano

(Writer, Director, Casting Director)

There are volumes on what it means to be creative. Let me add two more metaphors to the canon.

To be an actor means to play in your own sandbox, on cue, under pressure, in front of a bunch of people who need to be reminded of their own, often misplaced sandboxes.

Buried by production, time, and personal pressures, the people sitting in many audition rooms usually look like they’ve just swallowed a half-pound of toxic waste.  The air in the room can be stale with tension.

The Tribeca Online Film Festival

is back for its third year.

It’s not too late to view and vote!

The first-ever PBS Online Film Festival

doesn’t conclude its five week run

until March 30th.

According to Jake Coyle (AP, January 19, 2012),

“YouTube is launching a film festival that will play out online and ultimately send 10 finalists to the Venice Film Festival” …

New York, NY – October 15, 2011 – The RIKAROO Film Collective, in cooperation with United Digtial Filmmakers, today announced the launch of www.rikaroo.com, a place for independent filmmakers in search of exposure to submit their films for review by a jury of industry professionals and possible selection for exhibition online.

RIKAROO is the first industry-curated site for the on-line exhibition of high-quality, independent films, most of which have been denied the kind of exposure that would have found their audiences …