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BNM Webfest 2022

Father Demetrius is hearing voices which lead him to a historic graveyard from the 1800s in Philadelphia where he unexpectedly holds council with a tormented lieutenant.

AbSolved - Ep. 5: Lincoln

Father Demetrius, a soon to be ex-priest, is reluctantly following the sound of the voices in his head to their darkest endings.

AbSolved Trailer

& The Bathroom is a microseries about two roommates who grapple with the adult responsibilities of love, employment, and mutual understanding in a universe composed entirely of bathrooms.

& The Bathroom

When a classically trained twenty-something thespian finally takes the plunge into the world of professional acting in Austin, TX, she must learn to grapple with sleazy agents, creepy actors, cultish gurus, and the dehumanizing casting process, and ultimately must decide whether making her art her profession is worth all the bullshit.

Booked, Episodes 1-3

A depressed Ronnie Kitman desperately tries to find a job after dropping out of college. In unforeseen events, Ronnie obtains the ability to control people . He uses the power to better his life and those around him but with that comes unexpected dangerous and consequences.

Command (Episode One )

Delia and Giulia are trying to make the best out of the pandemic. In order for Delia's artist visa to get approved and Giulia's wish to never wait tables again to come true, they throw a huge comedy festival online. However, an unlucky Zoom accident that goes viral leaves the two of them getting mocked relentlessly instead of celebrated.

Critically Ashamed Vol. 2

LOGLINE: While waiting for her Google dream job, an ex-Israeli commando teaches a NYC night school philosophy class & uses her eclectic international students as unwitting pawns in her private eye gigs

THEME: Applying classical philosophical to today’s seemingly soulless world takes real effort. But when your professor is an unprincipled, self-absorbed, libertine dreamer, the moral boundaries are stretched to their limits. On the other hand, anything is better than sitting in the classroom being lectured on Confucius’ views on concubines.

Our Dreamer is DEVORAH ZISSA (DeZi) is ex-Israeli Army commando. Her name Hebrew means Sweet Bee & she’s the charismatic Queen bee all the other worker bees swarm around. Her philosophical views are a mix of Machiavelli & Sun Tzu. Dezi was indeed in Israeli Military intelligence but maybe not so successfully. But now that she’s in NYC, it’s all about a new type of battleground warfare: survival.

ZAYA is Dezi’s army BFF & now roommate in a Brooklyn loft full of Israelis called the Kibbutz. A hopeless romantic, Zaya is an aspiring celebrity personal trainer.

RONI KAPLAN (KAPO) is Dezi’s ex commander who owns a cleaning service/private security firm in NYC. Kapo has a complex big brother/misogynist relationship with Dezi but gets her the first few side gigs.

TAGLINE: They DESIRE the American Dream but only on their terms!

DeZAYA

This unique web series was filmed remotely in the midst of the pandemic & lockdown in Los Angeles. Thanks to our fantastic crew and cast we were able to create something special during this hectic time.

Synopsis -
During a pandemic, while everyone has to be under lockdown, the only way they can communicate with each other is through video calls. We get to watch our characters trying to function in this craziness.

On one hand, Lucy, a psychologist who's expecting her first child, while trying to help her patients: Matt and Julie are in the middle of a separation, Ronen is having a long-distance relationship and Sophie is dealing with some life-changing news. On the other hand, we have a psychic, Diamond, that gives her clients some hope during this chaos: Charlotte is trying to teach online preschool kids for the first time, David is dating for the first time, James is trying to find a girlfriend, and George who doesn't know how to deal with this whole stay home order.

How are they going to survive this pandemic? What will happen to their relationships?

Digital Affairs

CONCEPT: A virginal master-baker and a self-proclaimed sex goddess team up to open an erotic bakery, only to have their social-climbing arch-nemesis declare a turf war. FORNICAKES is a contemporary web series in the style of Friends meets 2 Broke Girls. At its heart, it is the story of how women, no matter their differences, always have each other’s backs.

The Fornicakes bakery is located in middle America suburbia, where old fashioned ideals are still cool, and the Morality Board regulates town standards. With its divinely decorated erotic-shaped baked goods, FORNICAKES is frequently in conflict with the Morality Board’s mores. Proximity breeds drama and contempt with the COFFEE SHOP next door and the MUFFIN FACTORY across the street.

SERIES OVERVIEW: Neurotic, virginal Jolene and sex-starved Lisa work to dig themselves out of poverty by opening Fornicakes - an erotic bakery where Jolene bakes edible genitalia while recently-divorced Lisa plots to steal her ex-husband Trevor back from their hated former high school rival Blanche. For Jolene and Lisa, it’s not just about pride. It’s about survival. Luckily, they have Daniel, the barista extraordinaire, who runs the coffee shop next door to Fornicakes.

FORNICAKES

AN 8-PART SERIES BASED ON HAMLET BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Denmark Circus has necessarily gone virtual. Skip-jumping along Shakespeare’s text, Ophelia’s story is unveiled in short digestible episodes. She is a silks aerialist. Hamlet is a clown who has lost all his mirth. The two conspire in hopes of finding out what really happened to their former ringleader.

Hamlet & Ophelia is a love letter to live performance made during a time when performance could not be live. All contributing artists self-taped as individuals or within personal quarantine pods.

Hamlet & Ophelia

Follow our hero Happy down a sedative rabbit hole, filled with adventure, strange trips, and good times.

Happy Transmissions

Music Video to song "Higher". Off the Visual Album "Life's a Party"

Higher

Human Telegraphs is a quirky and sweet female-driven series that follows three women as they launch an in-person message delivery business in NYC, and get tangled in the intimate, unexpected, and hilarious lives of strangers.

Trisha has been a type-A, driven she-boss from the time she left diapers, Margot is a shy, aspiring actor who left a sheltered religious upbringing in Alaska to find her true self in NYC, and Lily is a fiery hippie, feminist playwright. The three friends are forced to juggle the demands of their personal lives and dreams while being caught in the crossfire of other New Yorkers' relationship dramas, setbacks, and triumphs. Will their business and lives flounder or flourish in the Big Apple?

Human Telegraphs offers a fun, voyeuristic view into the personal relationships of a colorful collection of New Yorkers, and takes viewers behind their closed doors to reveal the authentically raw and eccentric humans of New York.​​

Human Telegraphs Season 1, Episodes 2 - 3

“Hey y’all! It’s time to get your hands a clapping and your feet a tapping.”

“It’s Daisy May” is a 10-episode web series about Daisy May, a girl from the American south who loves talking, making people smile, and singing country music. Daisy is tired of Mama and her life in the trailer park and wants more, so off she goes to the local trash yard, finds a ukulele, starts plucking, and introduces herself to the wide, wide world of the web.

With the help from Donna’s phone (Donna is the best) Daisy imparts all the wisdom she’s learned along the way whilst singing her heart out in the process (music really does soothe the soul).

“It’s Daisy May” mixes the genres of stand-up comedy, musical theatre, and cabaret. And, some might say it’s like a good ole’ fashioned hoe down. Either way, join us. Daisy can’t wait to meet you!

It's Daisy May

Stuck in a dead-end personal assistant job, Kinsley, an ambitious yet unpublished writer, can't write anything other than titles. When an influencer she hate-follows gets a book deal, Kinsley calls her life-like Thoughts out of hibernation to manifest success, boost her ego, and help her finally write her masterpiece. But each Thought vies for control and she finds herself fighting to be heard inside her own mind.

Kinsley Vs.

When the Dumont sisters receive the phone call from their mother, telling them to come home, they can never imagine the darkness that awaits. Upon return, the seemingly innocent family reunion takes a sudden, dark turn as their loyalty and love for one another is put to the ultimate test. Each dealing in their own ways, they must inevitably decide what they are willing to sacrifice for kin.

At its core, Kith & Kin is about family- the sacrifices we are willing to make, the secrets we are willing to keep and the love that ties that all together. It explores our instincts for survival, protection and the cost that we pay for the sins of our Ancestors.

Kith & Kin

Mac MacLochlan and his new wide-eyed sidekick Oliver Leaf are detectives in the London, England Department of Trying To Solve Murder And Other Flippantly Vile Crimes. Mac isn't just grizzled and jaded, he's also a houseplant, and the crimes these two solve happen to both foliage and humans alike. Along the way they learn that, yeah sure, solving the murders of ugly childhood friends, and perverts is important, but the real reason for doing the job? Is partnership.

MacLochlan & Leaf

(mis)placed is a web series about the intersecting lives of twenty-somethings, all searching for love, work, and meaning in the world today.

(mis)placed

In the far future, an alien species called the Senlac effortlessly conquer a human colony on the planet Paradise and establish authoritarian rule. 16 year old Charlie inadvertently gets involved in a resistance group formed to fight the Senlac and their human collaborators.

His enthusiasm and glamorous ideas of resistance slowly erode as he's exposed to the harsh realities of what it truly means to fight and the sacrifices he must make on the way to liberation.

Paradise Lost

After a night of celebration Alan drunkenly tells his wife Michelle. The dark origin behind their love

Persistence

A loving son documents his life for his comatose mother as he moves in with a prank-obsessed stranger.

ROOMMATE: A Web Series

Sometimes the person you would take a bullet for is behind the trigger. When the first family of the church is exposed, dynasties are destroyed, and a secret love child is reveled. Ariel gives Greg another chance, but his double life is catching up to him. Patricia is struggling to keep her fiancé and family together. Jamal helps Sabrina and comes to her rescue.

SECRETS

Featuring 15 original songs by @Nakia and Joshua R. Pangborn, Dueling Pianos is a musical event set in the Skeleton Crew universe. Feeling themselves fraying at the seams, Hunter and Anthony seek opportunities to solidify their remarriage, unexpectedly facing danger along their journey somewhere over the rainbow. Meanwhile, an open mic night at MoneyShot$ leads to truths meeting emotions head on.

Executive Producer
Joshua R. Pangborn

Songs Produced by Nakia & Matt Parmenter

Songs Recorded, Mixed, and Mastered by Matt Parmenter at Ice Cream Factory Studios in Austin, Texas.

With Four Music Sequences Filmed and edited by @Catalin Stelian

Hear the entire original cast recording at HTTPS://NAKIA.ME/DUELINGPIANOS1

Join the Crewniverse: https://www.patreon.com/SideKickProductions

Skeleton Crew (aka Dueling Pianos: A Skeleton Crew Musical)

Slightly misguided (but up for anything) people from various walks of life meet in a craft brewery's parking lot to joust on bicycles of double the normal height, raise money for a nonprofit bicycle shop that focuses on urban transportation equity, and to joyously celebrate life in all of its absurdity.

Uniquely blending documentary and scripted elements, this very real tournament is presented by hosts from a SportsCenter-esque studio as though it is a live event of international significance—like the Super Bowl or World Cup—and the jousters hyped as the superheroes they so clearly are.

THE TALL BIKE JOUST originally served as a pilot for SMART PEOPLE BEING STUPID—an unscripted TV/ web series traveling the nation to find intelligent and successful people who engage in random, silly, and seemingly pointless events the general public does not even know exists. But, given the success of this pilot and of the underground sport of tall bicycle jousting, this project also now serves as a pilot for THE TALL BIKE JOUST WORLD CUP—an arced series following five jousters from the pilot as they earn points in tall bicycle jousting tournaments across the southeast and strive to be crowned the year-end champion.

The Tall Bike Joust

A group of hopeful actors live and try to work in Chicago.

Thrilled to Announce

A middle-aged Jewish woman—fired from her job as a high school chemistry teacher—joins a Neo-Nazi terror group and is assigned the task of creating a weapon of mass destruction.

Violent True Believer

Walkie-Talkie is a witty, semi-autobiographical digital comedy series that follows 24-year-old Katie as she grapples with what it means to be asexual in a world that places such a high value on sex. When all her friends start to prioritize their dating lives over their friendships, Katie embarks on a quest to meet and connect with new people in a non-traditional way: by hiding a walkie-talkie in a new place each week and then going on a walk with the person that finds it. Essentially, she sets herself up on platonic blind dates.

In the pilot, a young man named Adam picks up the walkie-talkie, and he and Katie connect immediately. Their relationship is the heart of the series. Importantly, this is NOT an “I thought I was asexual until I met the right person” story. Since there is no middle ground between having sex and not having sex, Walkie-Talkie explores their complicated relationship with empathy, nuance, and humor.

Walkie-Talkie

Withering away in the Germantown nursing home, The Oldheads grow tired of the same routine. One day, OG’s grandson, Chauncey, visits and gifts his elders with a smartphone. This smartphone has the power to make their greatest dream come true; to become young again, thus… The Whippersnappers are born!

The Whippersnappers

It’s the year 2081.... Chrono-refugee Ethan 'Zero' Lock is offered the chance to visit his home time in 2019. To do it, he’ll race against the clock to complete a dangerous time crime and risk his partner’s trust, all for a taste of a life he can never get back.

Zero Method
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