This dark comedy wasn’t meant to be a Web series. It was first developed and then shot as a short film, but as the response time for festival entries dragged on the producers took a different tack. “We went into it with a very conventional, movie-making mentality, which is where [director] Jason Melius came in because he had a lot of experience in that traditional, Hollywood studio system,” says Cameron Comstock, who plays James in the six-episode series and co-produced it with Sean J. Miller (a contributing editor to Backstage). Short films were once the springboard for young directors and actors. But in the digital age, the Internet's audience dwarf's that of film festivals. Sure, they remain good networking opportunities. But the audience for a festival shorts program ranges up to the hundreds -- at best. The audience online is, well, limitless. “The Transplanters” follows the darkly comic story of James who,...
- 1/29/2015
- backstage.com
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