5.07.2018

ATROPA: SCIENCE FICTION TV SERIES TRAILER


ATROPA – Series Trailer – Available Now! from Eli Sasich on Vimeo.

ATROPA: The Series is available NOW on Vivendi's STUDIO+ platform –– download the app and watch all seven episodes today!

In the web serial ATROPA: The Series, off-world detective Cole Freeman (Tony Bonaventura) and the crew of a drifting spaceship face a cosmic mystery that not only redefines their perception of time and space, but also threatens to send them spinning to their doom. A nostalgic throwback to sci-fi films of old, ATROPA: The Series sends its cast of spacefaring characters down grimy ship corridors and confronts them with the dangers of deep space in their perilous quest for universal truth.
ATROPA: The Series began life in 2015, when filmmaker Eli Sasich made a short film — called simply ATROPA — as a pitch for a feature script. Having released the short online, Sasich went through a long development process aimed at bringing the story to the big screen, before ultimately realizing the project as a seven-episode series backed by Vimeo and released through Vivendi’s STUDIO+ platform.

....We had an incredible team who went above and beyond to help bring you something truly special with this short-form series. Many of the folks listed below have been with the project since the original pitch short was shot five years ago! It was a surreal experience to come back together and complete the story. A huge thank you to each and every member of the cast and crew for your hard work and dedication!



Director: Eli Sasich

Writers: Clay Tolbert & Eli Sasich

Producer: Lieren Stuivenvolt Allen

Producer: Chris Bryant

Executive Producers: Eli Sasich, Clay Tolbert

Director of Photography: Greg Cotten

Production Designer: Alec Contestabile

Editors: Zach Anderson, Adam Van Wagoner

Original Music by: Kevin Riepl

Costume Designer: Dagmarette Yen

Visual Effects Supervisor: Ryan Wieber

Spaceship Visual Effects Supervisor: Tobias Richter

Spaceship Visual Effects by: The Light Works

Earth Sequence Visual Effects Supervisor: Matt Hoffman

Earth Sequence Visual Effects by: BluFire Studios

Associate Producers: Kevin Riepl, Ryan Wieber, Greg Cotten, Chris Sasich



CAST:

Tony Bonaventura

Jeannie Bolet

Ben Kliewer

Chris Voss

David M. Edelstien

Ewan Chung

Kevin Swanstrom

Amir Malaklou



Featuring Michael Ironside as 'Captain Schreiber'



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In Association with VIMEO

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Unit Production Manager: Lieren Stuivenvolt Allen

1st AD: Boman Modine

2nd AD: Nathaniel David Shriver

Script Supervisor: Steve Montal

Art Director: Clayton Beisner

Set Decorator: Sophie Peter

Property Master: Robert St Laurent

1st AC: Brian White

2nd AC / DIT: Ryan Summersett

Gaffer: Arjun Prakash, Jeff Godshall,

Colorist: Tashi Trieu

Hair and Makeup Department Head: Mandy Artusato

Sound Mixer / Boom Operator: Yu-Ting Su

Supervising Sound Editor: Michael Ault

Sound Editors: Leo Magrin, John Maximilian Repka

Additional Sound Editing: Alan Guzman

Orchestration: Susie Benchasil Seiter, Chad Seiter, Kevin Riepl Music

Poster Artist: Paul Shipper – Paul Shipper Studio

Production Assistants: Brendan Peterson, Kevin Swanstrom, Shane Leary, Bradley Specht, Jacob Arzola, Jessica Miller, Daniel Macdonald, Adam Valazquez


CLASSIC PULP FICTION COVERS: FROM THE MALTESE FALCON TO THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES



....Yesterday we wrote of the low opinions the eminent J.R.R. Tolkien and his friend C.S. Lewis held for the “vulgar” creations of Walt Disney. As a counterpoint to their disdain for popular entertainment, we might turn—as writer Steven Graydanus does in Disney's defense—to their contemporary, the Catholic apologist and prolific essayist, journalist, poet, and writer of detective novels and short stories, G.K. Chesterton.
But we aren't talking Disney here, but hard-boiled pulp fiction, a genre I think Chesterton would have liked. Chesterton’s work “was entirely popular in nature,” notes Graydanus. He was “a great defender of popular and even ‘vulgar’ culture." Take his essay “A Defense of Penny Dreadfuls,” which begins:
One of the strangest examples of the degree to which ordinary life is undervalued is the example of popular literature, the vast mass of which we contentedly describe as vulgar. The boy's novelette may be ignorant in a literary sense, which is only like saying that modern novel is ignorant in the chemical sense, or the economic sense, or the astronomical sense; but it is not vulgar intrinsically--it is the actual centre of a million flaming imaginations.
Sentiments like these inspired admirers of Chesterton like Marshall McLuhan and Jorge Luis Borges to take seriously the mass entertainments of their respective cultures.


READ MORE:
http://www.openculture.com/2018/05/pulp-covers-for-classic-detective-novels-by-dashiell-hammett-arthur-conan-doyle-agatha-christie-raymond-chandler.html