Weekly Kickstarter: Exile, The Family You Choose
Ok, so maybe you’ve been following the exploits of Rick, Daryl, Glenn, Carl, and the rest of the Walking Dead crew for a while now. But how much do you know about Charles, Wheeler, and Tali? The backwoods of Georgia isn’t the only place hit hard by the zombie apocalypse, you know.
There’s an abandoned theater full of people in Arizona that can use some serious help as well. Also, no one on this show wears a stupid sheriff’s hat the whole time. Associate Producer Sean McBeth shed a little more light in the project.
Exile is a post-apocalyptic zombie genre series made by a self-funded, independent film crew in the Lehigh Valley and Philadelphia. We’re gearing up for another season of filming and have setup a Kickstarter to try to improve our production quality.
After releasing the first three issues of Exile: The Family You Choose earlier this year, we are excited to finally bring you the rest of the arc!
Right now, our plan is to film five more issues over the course of 2013. We’ve expanded our team and are looking forward to bringing you better quality than ever before.
We have to start somewhere, and that somewhere is Issue 4. We’re going to be renting equipment, purchasing some new gear and feeding our cast & crew, and we need your help to do it.
There are already a handful of great episodes up on YouTube if you want to catch up before the final arc of the series kicks off. Oh yeah… and you can have someone show up to your place (or your work, or Geekadelphia World Headquarters) dressed as a zombie! Guys, c’mon.
And take off that stupid hat, Carl.
The Project: Exile: The Family you Choose
Creators: Andrew Stirling MacDonald
The Sweet Spot: $25 gets you an advance link to preview episode 4 before it goes live, and an invite to the sure to be sweet cast and crew release party. $500 gets you the aforementioned zombiegram, a signed poster a backer-only supplementary video, and all sorts of other sweet swag.
Funding Deadline: December 16th, 2012
More Info: The previous episodes and trailers are up on Andrew’s YouTube channel. Read more on the official kickstarter page, and check out AP Sean’s recent post on the Hive76 blog to learn more.
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I’ve tried to watch this webseries…but I have to admit, its incomprehensible. I can’t tell if the writing is bad, or if 3/4 of the cast just can’t act, or a mix of both. I forced myself through the first series which was a jumble of monologues performed by what seemed like community theater stars, and then gave the second series a chance…and had to quit half way through the second episode. There are so many good indie things out there, but this just isn’t one of them.
You have some valid points, but It’s actually too bad you stopped there. No joke, about halfway thru the 2nd episode of the 2nd arc is when the series really hits it’s stride. Lots of zombie action, the plot takes an interesting twist and yes, even those community theater actors suddenly become pretty engaging (I’d dare to call them “regional theater” at that point). I say jump back in and at least finish it out to the third episode…definitely got me intrigued for what’s next.