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For the self-reliant artists living in the era of instant distribution opportunities, outlets like the Independent Television and Film Festival are necessary to set yourself apart and make some professional contacts in the process. Taking place Sept. 26–28 in Dover, Vt., ITVFest features Web series, indie TV shows, short films, feature films, and panel discussions designed to connect content producers with potential distributors and each other. For its ninth year, ITVFest programmers are ensuring the right people will be in the audience when content makers screen their latest works. Rob Barnett, founder-ceo of Omnivision Entertainment and My Damn Channel, and David Katz, VP at Starz Digital Media—who earlier this year picked up recent Streamy Award winner “The Lizzie Bennet Diaries,” as well as Backstage’s Now Streaming featured Web series “Llama Cop”—will be on-site scouting new content for their respective platforms. Barnett and Katz will also participate in one...

Stupid For Movies is a weekly live streamed web show airing on Ustream every Thursday at 8 Pm Pdt. Created by Mike Rotman (Kevin Pollak’s Chat Show, Politically Incorrect With Bill Maher), the show is hosted by La Film critics Mark Keizer and Wade Major (IGN's The Digigods). Each week Keizer and Major discuss the best and worst in movies, including reviewing the latest movies to hit the theater, recommending DVDs to “Buy, Rent or Burn”, and talk news with special anchor Chad Vader. Rotman was kind enough to invite myself and my photographer (Aka: boyfriend), Stuart, down to the Streamin’ Garage studio, named for the fact that it literally is a converted garage, to view an episode taping. Though the show does run live, episodes of the show are then converted and uploaded to blip.tv (a job Rotman does himself, a bit of which we witnessed as we...

Legendary comedian Kevin Pollak isn’t generally thought of as a terrifying person. However, the guy who is known in Hollywood for bringing the funny is now bringing the fear (along with some humor) with his new Babelgum comedy web series “Vamped Out.”

“Vamped Out” was conceived by Pollak and Jason Antoon (Minority Report) from a simple joke over lunch.

“I went to have lunch with Jason and my girlfriend and I passed a billboard for Vampire Diaries,” explained Pollak. “We were complaining to him when we got there about there being yet another vampire show, and Jason joked about what if you really were a vampire but couldn’t get cast as a vampire for any of these projects.”

“Jason said to me, ‘That’s a great bit for your set, Kevin,’ and I said, ‘No that’s a great bit for a web series,” Pollak added.

From there,...

Even if you're just a casual reader of the site, you know what a zombie aficionado your old Uncle Creepy is. Which is why, when news of a new short film revolving around a zombie apocalypse came across my desk, of course I had to share it!

Below you'll find "Sketch of the Dead", which stars Mr. Show’s Paul F. Tompkins and Rich Sommer from Mad Men. It was written by Tompkins and Ben Acker and was directed by Mike Rotman.

Sketch Of The Dead

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