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Space Janitors at PAX East

Space Janitors debuted their pilot episode to rave reviews on The Escapist. The first episode introduces fans to Darby Richards and Mike Chet; two janitors who work on the Evil Empire’s space station. As they say, “for every Dark Lord, there are ten thousand minions who need working toilets. And when you’re plotting to take over the universe, you don’t really want to worry about whether or not the trash needs to be taken out.”

On Friday April 6^th a few lucky fans will get a sneak peek of the highly anticipated second episode at the PAX East conference in Boston. Space Janitors will be part of The Escapist Movie Night held at the Wyvern Theatre. The night will feature never-before-seen videos from The Escapist’s most popular web series, a panel discussion with the web series creators and the special premiere of Space Janitors episode 2.

3rd year of IPF web series funding off to a great start!

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Whew, what a month here at the IPF offices. For our March 1 Phase 1 deadline we received 153 applications for our web series production program. It was a blast to read all the amazing ideas folks have. We got a variety of submissions ranging from epic time travelling space adventures and doggy weddings to heartfelt last moments and choose your own adventure thrillers. We had the very difficult job of narrowing down the submissions to 31 projects to move on to the second phase of applications. The projects selected to move forward have until May 1 to submit more in-depth, longer applications.

IPF Web Series at Toronto ComiCon

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The second weekend of March found fans of all things superhero, alternate reality, web series and so much more descending on the Metro Toronto Convention centre. Among the attractions were IPF funded web series Tights & Fights and Guidestones

Guidestones Interactive Thriller Launches

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Sandy Rai (Supinder Wraich), an exchange student from India studying journalism in Canada, stumbles upon an unsolved murder while working on assignment with fellow student Trevor Shale (Dan Fox). She learns that the murdered man, a scientist named Harold Glenndenning (David Fox), may have a connection to the builders of The Georgia Guidestones. Following clues hidden within The Guidestones she discovers that Harold’s death was no random act, and is instead part of a cover-up hiding a global conspiracy of apocalyptic proportions.

IPF Commits To Web Series Funding Until 2014

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Celebrating two decades of funding traditional Canadian television drama series, the board of the Independent Production Fund (IPF) has made a formal commitment to lead the industry in new directions for the future. The web series funding program that has been undertaken on an experimental basis for the past two years, will now become the focus of IPF funding support for the next three years. In 2010, the IPF launched a pilot program to support linear drama series created for new [...]