Web series enthusiasts can celebrate. The latest stats in Europe say that millennials are simply not watching conventional TV. The Irish National broadcaster RTE launched an online TV channel, and you may well be of the minority if you don’t stream your …
Hamza Firdous, producer and Nicolas Courdouan, director of 5 Cents and the Boyz are ours guest for this edition of Dub Web Fest Show the week of the festival. Sebastian Stephenson talks to them about both their first time producing …
We love a good Hollywood blockbuster as much as the next guy, but it’s natural to question the structure, motives, plot and casting roles simply for the sake of good conversation. In this case, it’s the movie titles that got us thinking. They …
Ailish Mc Elmeel is the Producer of Burning Wishes. Ailish is our guest this week and Sebastian Stephenson talks to Ailish about the series, her background as a producer, the challenges of producing a web series coming from television and …
Trevor O’ Niell is the director of the Garda series and is this weeks guest. We talk about the unique Irish country humour that is in the series. We also talk about while its good to leave things open to …
Sebastian Stephenson and Dub Web Fest Festival Director, Mikael Theiry discuss this years submissions to the first Dub Web Fest.
Sebastian Stephenson speaks to Brian Patton, co-host of The Food and Beer Geeks; A web series that follows two restauranteurs on their research journey for their pop up taco concept. Brian Patton is also the CEO of the Culinary Love …
Chester Travis is co-creator of award winning web series, How To Be Gay. Sebastian Stephenson speaks to Chester about the origin of the web series, playing with stereotyping in storytelling, is there an issue with not being gay to write a LGBT story and how they managed to get New Zealand arts funding with his partner in crime (and co-creator of How To Be Gay), Paul. Their are plenty of great behind the scene stories here, give it a listen.
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Sebastian Stepheson speaks to Noel Sutton, Director of the GAZE Film Festival, about the history of the GAZE Film Festival, the web series strand of the festival and how LGBT filmmakers have embraced the web series format. We also talk about the standard of the Irish short at this year festival and how GAZE 2015 is shaping up in light of the Marraige Equality Referendum and the Gender Recognition Bill.
Nuno Bernardo tells Sebastian Stephenson what transmedia is, what is the difference between making a transmedia property and a marketing campaign and what can be achieved in transmedia that you can’t do using just one medium. Nuno talks about how he started out telling a two year long story though a blog, web series and films, with a Pinterest page. We also talk about his latest TV projects such as following Irish comedians to the Edinburgh fringe festival and a boxing project. Nuno also talks about what he’s doing for Dub Web Fest.
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