JOSHUA IRWIN and VICTORIA FOX took the Star Trek fan film world by storm on Halloween of 2018 with the release of the 2-part GHOST SHIP, a mash-up of Star Trek and The Walking Dead taking place in the parallel “Avalon” Universe. An early effort to achieve something more was John Cosentino's Paragon's Paragon, which was an unofficial adaption of James Blish's "Spock Must Die!," an early Star Trek spinoff novel. I asked RANDY LANDERS about this casting change (and a few other things) in the accompanying blog interview. … These were voice-over “logs” from various people recorded during the war and presented on YouTube with photos and animated graphics. With Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban, Chris Pine, Simon Pegg. Also appearing in a cameo was VANCE MAJOR, playing his fan-favorite character of Erick Minard from Vance’s epic series of fan films. New Yorker GEORGE KAYAIAN has been making Star Trek fan films for nearly three decades now. Their extensive skills as industry professionals are impressively on display in their third and most ambitious offering yet: the 2-part Demons. A jaw-dropping visual FX spectacular featuring a crossover of ships and characters from Star Trek, Star Wars, Mass Effect, and Halo. Plot kept under wraps. Events soon take an unexpected turn however, and the crew ... See full summary ». Directed by Kenneth Smith. The 11th release from POTEMKIN PICTURES’ Starship Deimos creative team followed closely on the heels of their 10th release. Originally backed on Kickstarter in March 2013 this project has evolved year upon year. Funded through Kickstarter, production sought $10,000 in funding, but raised $101,000. A typical hour-long episode of Star Trek Continues averaged about $50,000. There’d better be! The Official Star Trek Website and gateway to the final frontier We’ve finally made it through the troublesome teens! Fan Films. In a time prior to the United Federation of Planets, a young coalition of worlds led by Earth battle the Romulan Star Empire for their very survival. Prelude to Axanar (working title: Star Trek: Prelude to Axanar, and long title: The Four Years War Part III: Prelude to Axanar) is a 2014 fan-made short film, directed by Christian Gossett and written by Gossett and Alec Peters. POTEMKIN PICTURES releases a plethora of Trek fan films each year from six different production teams (soon to be more!) I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was Zhuangzi. Star Trek is an American media franchise based on the science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry.The first television series, simply called Star Trek and now referred to as The Original Series, debuted in 1966 and aired for three seasons on NBC.The Star Trek canon includes The Original Series, seven spin-off television series, two animated series, and thirteen films. 2020: Hawley Went in … When the guidelines later limited the run time of fan films to 30 minutes, show-runners GARY DAVIS and RANDY WRENN pulled the B-story from the “Medusa” script and turned it into its own self-contained fan film. Take a look at his take on that “meeting” Kirk had with Admiral Nogura in The Human Adventure. Speaking of which, did you know that I’ve published 205(!!!) Lost Fan Films. 30min | Short, Sci-Fi | 12 May 2019 (UK) The crew of a Federation starship assist the deeply religious Vitans to restore their polluted atmosphere after centuries of war. The project spent nearly two years in production, and fortunately was able to be released to the fans and public before the tragic and untimely passing of two of the DS9 cast, ARON EISENBERG and RENÉ AUBERJONOIS. Most often, 24th century Trek fan films go the route of compositing actors filmed in front of a green screen with digitally-generated backgrounds.. THE ROMULAN WAR – WAR STORIES: “THE FIGHTING FOURTH”. Okay, anyone who is still claiming that the CBS fan film guidelines “killed” or “destroyed” or “ruined” Star Trek fan films “forever” needs to be strapped into the Neutral Neutralizer chair and forced to read this blog! . Initially, this episode was simply going to be the B-story of a much grander “Redemption at Red Medusa” fan film, originally written three years prior to the guidelines. However, if you do want to see all of them (and I do mean ALL) be sure to check out my blog “brother from another mother”—in this case, the “mother” is fan film legend BARBARA READER and her team—the super-complete Star Trek Reviewed. This fan film almost didn’t happen…but we’re glad it did! Unlike TOS, where there are multiple set recreations where fans can film, TNG sets are much more difficult to construct and maintain. However, cooler heads prevailed, and although Sam was forced to remove the TNG footage and change the music, he was also ALLOWED to run over the 30-minute run-time limit set by the guidelines. If they weren’t doing so, I doubt I’d be spending so much time writing this darned blog! Have a wonderful 2020, folks. Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window), Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window), Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window), STARSHIP ANTYLLUS questions faith and God in “AS IT IS WRITTEN…” (interview with GEORGE KAYAIAN), THE FEDERATION FILES “rescues” the abandoned STAR TREK: EQUINOX fan film! The Avalon Universe has quickly become a fan-favorite alternate reality to visit, thanks primarily to the skills of co-creators VICTORIA FOX and JOSHUA IRWIN. It had its public debut July 26, 2014 at the San Diego Comic-Con. Five months later, they launched the crowd-funding campaign for their third Avalon fan film by releasing their second Avalon film. A Long Way From Home is a new Star Trek fan produced short film filmed in lock down. Southern California-based filmmaker MATTHEW BLACKBURN released his first Star Trek fan film, SURVIVOR, in 2010. The results look quite promising for what’s to come! Thanks for the Christmas present. With a wonderful cast of actors, Temporal Anomaly is a love letter to all of Star trek! Seuss “mash-up” infringement case; and there were news stories and updates and, sadly, eulogies for ARON EISENBERG, D.C. FONTANA, and RENÉ AUBERJONOIS. But a very generous fan bankrolled Gary’s entire production costs, and after a year of hard work and some amazing set construction, Gary released his second MUST-SEE fan film…even better than his first! I now have a list of videos to watch. As MARK LARGENT continues to work on CGI production for Stalled Trek: “The City on the Edge of Foreclosure” (the first new full-length TOS puppet parody since  in 2012’s Stalled Trek: “Amutt Time”), he took the opportunity to release a short and hilarious vignette using the new Blender 3D application. They don’t miss anything! Adapting one of my screenplays for Star Trek… But Aaron saved the best for last, as his fifth and final fan production ties into the other four and caps off a triumphant 4-year run with a true fan film masterpiece. Star Trek fan films have been made since the 1960s by individuals and various fan groups but, before the advent of inexpensive digital cameras, editing and effects in the 1990s, most were on a simple home movie level. . mugato! Star Trek: Lower Decks, Comedy and the Star Trek Universe. The sixth fan film from POTEMKIN PICTURES’ Battlecruiser Kupok creative team was also a full-on crossover with another POTEMKIN series, Hospital Ship Marie Curie. 2019 marks the 53rd anniversary of Star Trek but what does the future hold for the venerable sci-fi franchise? on a single feature-length fan film. Directed by Anna Stefankova. A banner year for Stsr Trek fan films. Paramount Pictures actively pursued legal action against Star Trek fan films in the 1980s, such as the animated film series Star Trix, ... 2019 on the Fangoria Facebook page. For past couple of years, the short episode vignettes from Dreadnought Dominion had been more tongue-in-cheek. individual blog entries in 2019? Granted, some have been reviews of Star Trek: Discovery or Short Treks episodes; a good number of blogs were in support of the GoFundMe campaign for my Axanar Universe fan film INTERLUDE and other fan film crowd-funders; the long-awaited production of AXANAR itself got a lot coverage, as did the Star Trek/Dr. One of the “eras” of Star Trek that remains sadly unexplored by the vast majority of fan films is the time period around Star Trek: The Motion Picture when Starfleet uniforms were a combination of pajamas, tennis shirts, and 1970s spa robes in pastel colors and various earth tones. And this time, for a little change of pace, instead of just getting a short quote or two from show-runner RANDY LANDERS, I interviewed the episode’s writer/director/fight choreographer (and star) LEE DREW. Will there be more Survivors? This makes for a pretty deep and dramatic story. In the blog commentary from RANDY LANDERS, he describes some of the challenges and fun stories from shooting in the great outdoors. POTEMKIN PICTURES strikes again with two releases in less than a month: the two-part “Repercussions,” the first new fan film(s) from the Starship Tristan creative team in nearly eight months. The Holy Core - A Star Trek Fan Production. The first fan film to combine all of the eras into one project.Check out our next big project...Convergence - A Star Trek fan production, the largest fan film cross over event in history! This library comprises 140,000+ TV episodes and 3,600+ film titles, and reunites fan-favorite franchises such as Star Trek and Mission: Impossible. With extreme pride I’m sharing the trailer for my latest Star Trek Fan Production. DREADNOUGHT DOMINION: “TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES”. And in an unprecedented move, Vance released—over a single weekend—69 different fan films! Even Romulans are invited as tension rises between the Federation and Klingon Empire. Two of the most ambitious and visually stunning Star Trek fan films you will ever see don’t feature a single human actor on the screen. Shows & Movies Video Events Games Shop Database Sign Up; Sign In; Try Star Trek: Discovery ... What to do at 2019's Star Trek Las Vegas. The fourth fan film release from the Star Trek anthology series The Federation Files was an impressive “crossover” with the Star Wars universe…including a really impressive R2 droid that steals the show. If you haven’t seen the full documentary yet, it’s only a few dollars to rent on YouTube and 100% worth it! With Paul Lang, Marc Bowers, Ryan Webber, Callie Bussell. While Star Trek fan films haven’t entirely avoided the subject of religious beliefs, it’s still a rarity. The film ran for an hour and was shot on 16mm filmusing a full-size recreation of the Bridge set. The 20-minute Prelude was made for about $125,000. Since Star Trek (now referred to as The Original Series) launched in 1966, the adventures of the intergalactic heroes of Starfleet have spawned five spinoff television series, thirteen feature films, an animated series, and the promise of more to come. Seven years later in the summer of 2017, Matthew released a sequel: SURVIVORS. Despite being made by the same professionals who produced the seven-season TV series for Paramount, the Hollywood studios (neither Paramount not CBS) had no interest in bankrolling any kind of retrospective. ), including ones from Germany (STAR TREK: EUDERION) and the Czech Republic (STAR TREK: DIPLOMACY), humor vignette series like STAR TREK: IT GUY and the surreal STAR TREK: STUNT DOUBLES…and a whole bunch of smaller efforts from right here in the U.S.A. and around the world. I believe so! “Technical Difficulties” was also the first-ever Trek fan production to be filmed before a live studio audience (at Neutral Zone Studios in Kingsland, GA). There were also a number of releases I didn’t get to yet (hey, I’m just one guy! So Executive Producer IRA STEVEN BEHR reached out to fans and raised $650K on Indiegogo (and even more later on). The Looking Glass was the first release from Neutral Zone Studios itself—not simply filmed there like many other fan films since RAY TESI purchased the TOS sets from VIC VIGNOGNA but actually released as a production of the studio itself. The era of the “big” professional-looking Star Trek fan films is NOT yet over, folks! And there’s more to come. With Jana Krcmarova, Terezie Holesinska, Anna Stefankova, Pavel Votrubec. 03 “WORLD ENOUGH AND TIME” – Marc Zicree (interview), Part 1 Marc Zicree (interview), Part 2. So I asked RANDY LANDERS in the blog about how scheduling and production/post-production works for the various POTEMKIN teams. A mysterious alien artifact represents a grave threat to the security of the Federation, and a faction of the Klingon Empire will stop at nothing to capture it. SAMUEL COCKINGS’ long-awaited CGI time travel extravaganza almost didn’t happen, as CBS decided to step in at the last minute when they discovered footage from the TNG movies being incorporated into a trailer for the hour-long fan film. And of course, I also continued my series of “The History Of…” features, most recently focusing on the Scottish fan series INTREPID. First-time fan filmmaker BENNY HALL burst out of the starting gate with a fan project that cost him $50,000 of his own money. His third production completes a “trilogy” (of sorts), featuring the same main character in an exciting thriller. Some fans believe that Axanar was the first fan film to use professionals or, at the very least, the first to pay them. Its been a wonderful journey and i'm so proud if its final result...truly a quality that I could never have dreamed possible back in 2013! It’s not easy making a set-based TNG-era Star Trek fan film! A year after releasing his first Star Trek fan film in 2017, the must-see CHANCE ENCOUNTER, GARY O’BRIEN of Great Britain tried to crowd-fund his next project and failed to get even half-way to his $11,000 (£8,700) goal. STAR TREK FAN FILMS: INTRODUCTION While not a massive Star Trek fan, I did love the original series when growing up. Needs of the Many (2015) Taking its title from a line in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, this basic UK … Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. The story of the initial launch of the Starship USS Enterprise in 2245 under the command of Captain Robert April with his wife, Commander Sarah April. Data must correct the timeline before the Federation is lost and the Borg take over. Now they each get to live on in the form of a self-contained Star Trek fan film that incorporates them all. While the Cpt Talisa Ren goes on a vacation, her ship USS Avatar is tasked with supporting smooth-running of a diplomatic conference near Neutral Zone. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! But some of those uniforms (especially the admiral’s tunic) are actually pretty cool…especially when fabricated by accomplished cosplayers like show-runner DAVID CHENG. It not only featured a Romulan attack, but it included Romulan characters, a Romulan bridge set, and the first appearance of the Romulan “Stormbird” design outside of trailers for the upcoming The Romulan War fan film (compliments of the Sorcerer of CGI SAMUEL COCKINGS). Temporal Anomaly - A Star Trek Fan Production (Part 2) (2019) 1:00m Star Trek: Lower Decks. Filmed at both Vasquez Rocks Park in Southern California (site of countless Star Trek shoots over the decades) and at Neutral Zone Studios in Georgia (where Star Trek Continues was filmed), Benny brought STC veterans VIC MIGNOGNA, LISA HANSELL, and TIM VITTETOE back to Trek fan films…along with one very convincing (and angry!) But there were also more than TWO DOZEN brand new Star Trek fan film releases that got special coverage here on Fan Film Factor in 2019…plus another FIFTY new CONSTAR CHRONICLES fan films from VANCE MAJOR—and remember that many fan films were two-parts. CBS and Paramount Pictures are big believers in reasonable fan fiction and fan creativity, and, in particular, want amateur fan filmmakers to showcase their passion forStar Trek.Therefore, CBS and Paramount Pictures will not object to, or take legal action against, Star Trek fan productions that are non-professional and amateur and meet the following guidelines. News & Updates. Star Trek: Lower Decks. But the 23-minute “Redemption at Red Medusa” was totally serious and pretty exciting. The Klingon crew, which does not trust humans, must find a way to get past that prejudice in order to obtain the medical aid they need. THE FEDERATION FILES: “THE EQUINOX EFFECT”. THE HOLY CORE (2019) - A STAR TREK FAN FILM INTRODUCTION I am pleased to announce that the second Star Trek fan film I co-wrote has now been released online. And one of those four fan films is about to cross over from post … Now Vance is back, this time joined by the 24th century crew of the USS Constar. AARON VANDERKLEY, the Australian fan film “wonder from down under,” had already earned quite a sterling reputation after releasing four amazing NX-era Star Trek fan films: NEEDS OF THE MANY, THE DERELICT, GOOD MEN, and THE FALL OF STARBASE ONE. STAR TREK: NEW VOYAGES – Ep. It's a brand new story with new characters set within The Next Generation era of … Quite so. ... A Special Message to Star Trek Fans. There were also a number of releases I didn’t get to yet (hey, I’m just one guy! Check it out. Randy and his wife and sets) would soon be moving from Alabama to Kentucky. Directed by Victoria Fox. Get ready for an intense and emotional ride with quality acting, directing, lighting, sound, editing, costumes, make-up, stunts, VFX…the list goes on and on and on! But “The Fighting Fourth”—perhaps the best one yet—actually featured a video recording of the main character…plus amazing CGI from the Brilliant Brit himself, SAMUEL COCKINGS. Click the image above to go to the main playlist and start your binge-watching experience. And so, in this blog interview, I asked show-runner GEORGE KAYAIAN about his decision to take on this challenging theme in his latest release. In fact, fans are still awaiting four major productions that predate the guidelines of nearly three years ago: Axanar (of course), Pacific 201, the series finale of Starship Farragut (with a cameo by the late-great Stan Lee), and Star Trek: First Frontier. What’s most interesting about “The Heist” is that it’s a direct result of the fan film guidelines. Yep, I just counted! ), including ones from Germany (STAR TREK: EUDERION) and the Czech Republic (STAR TREK: DIPLOMACY), humor vignette series like STAR TREK: IT GUY and the surreal STAR TREK: STUNT DOUBLES…and a whole bunch of smaller efforts from right here in the U.S.A. and around the world. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man.” So replace “butterfly” with “Captain James T. Kirk” and replace “man” with “nerdy Trekkie,” and you have LARRY FLEMING’s surrealistic To Have Boldly Gone. While 2020 stopped us from filming Convergence, i wanted to create something special for the fans that have supported us. All three—in terms of acting, directing, editing, and overall quality—are MUST-SEE! So at the end of 2019, it looked like development on Star Trek 4 may have been canceled after all, with a new Star Trek movie taking its place. The running gag behind-the-scenes on the fan series Dreadnought Dominion was that, after half a dozen fan films between 2015 and 2018, the great tri-nacelled starship still hadn’t left Spacedock! The episode had some casting challenges to overcome, which RANDY LANDERS discusses in this brief blog interview. The release is now tentatively set for September 8, 2020. And this is by no means even a complete list!!! This series is shot at WARP 66 Studios in Arkansas, the newest TOS sets available to serve the fan filmmaking community. Was this documentary on the history of Deep Space Nine truly a Star Trek “fan film”? With Robert Pralgo, Tara Ochs, Mark Ashworth, Paul Telfer. Sure, the 6-figure crowd-funded productions were now a thing of the past, but they were always the exception and not the rule anyway. DREADNOUGHT DOMINION: “REDEMPTION AT RED MEDUSA”. Prior to that, the Tristan team had released five episodes in seven months. This includes updated versions of 18 of his previous Minard films plus 51 brand new episodes of The Constar Chronicles. (audio interview with KELLY & DAN REYNOLDS and GLEN WOLFE). And remember to scroll to the bottom of the blog page for an eye-opening video showing the behind-the-scenes tricks the team used to make everything look so awesome! And finally, I need to include a fan film that I did not cover here on Fan Film Factor but should have. His Minard saga spanned three dozen different fan films from short vignettes to full episodes of multiple different fan series…including his own. Directed by Noah Hawley. This is the trailer for the independent feature film Star Trek First Frontier. An email will not be created automatically. This time, the episode was filmed entirely on location in Moss Rock Preserve in Hoover, Alabama. The Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi once famously commented about a dream he had of being a butterfly: “…fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. While the command crew of the USS Excalibur races to discover the artifact's story first, they must battle their own personal demons. On the other hand, Renegades can easily spend $850,000 (possibly more!) It also used a wi… *** Temporal Anomaly has a custom arrangement with CBS which allows for its release with its longer run time. “Diplomatic Relations” was the tenth release from the Starship Deimos production team. Leading up to the long-anticipated release of mock documentary style fan film THE ROMULAN WAR, show-runner MARK NACCARATO began releasing a series of  “enhanced” audio dramas. So I’d say we’re well over a HUNDRED new Trek fan films in 2019…, So just in case you missed any of my features and/or interviews (both written and audio) covering these many fan releases—of if you’d just like to enjoy something to watch during your down time before heading back to work later this week—here’s what’s been published here on Fan Film Factor for new Trek releases over the past twelve months (click in the title(s) to view the blogs or else just watch the videos below them)…. So I’d say we’re well over a … based across multiple states. From using antiquated video game engines for the space visual effects and green screen sets, to spending hundreds of hours learning the very same VFX software they made the space effects in Voyager/Enterprise/DS9. Only time will tell. So when, my filmmaking partner, Gary suggested, in 2016, we create a Star Trek Fan film based in the Next Generation universe I thought why not. The final result was worth waiting for. That finally changed with this 5-minute vignette, which was produced somewhat tongue-in-cheek, but at least the ship got into space! So many more Trek fan films come out each year than I can possibly hope to cover properly. VANCE MAJOR is a fan filmmaking MACHINE! Batman Dracula was a fan made movie made by pop artist Andy Warhol. The email will only be created once you click on the "Send Email" button. The next release from POTEMKIN PICTURES was the third fan film from the Starship Triton creative team, featuring the character of Commander Janice Rand as a prominent crew member…although played by a new actress. Directed by Tommy Kraft. The boy’s gotta blog…the boy’s gotta blog! Both of those assumptions are incorrect by nearly a decade. There are so many great fan films of Star Trek it is impossible to pick a favorite. Exploring the world of Star Trek fan films. And remember, folks, this is still only a partial list for 2019! Not only does this latest offering tell a story featuring Picard, Data, Janeway, Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Sulu, M’Ress, Chapel, and Captain Rudy Ransom, but it also includes footage from a half-dozen fan films that haven’t been completed yet, some of which were completely abandoned projects. I know that Vance Major can make 30 fan films with the loose change he finds in his sofa. WHAT WE LEFT BEHIND: LOOKING BACK AT STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE. Most fan projects have traditionally had very humble budgets, and those have continued to live long and prosper. There are also two other fan films whose blogs are currently being worked on and which will appear over the next few days (the fan films did both come out in 2019!)…. A few days late, but you’re welcome, Jerry. It will apparently be the first of many such fan productions from Neutral Zone Studios. This project was started in 2013 and created long before the fan film guidelines, to allow its release we got a separate arrangement with CBS***It's finally here! The fifth release from the Star Trek anthology fan series The Federation Files presents long-time members of the fan film community with a “gift,” of sorts. But this latest episode of Starship Antyllus marked the debut of his daughter ANYA SHEILA KAYAIAN in front of the camera. The follow-up to Star Trek Beyond (2016). With David Agrinsonis, Victoria Archer, Victoria Fox, Alissa Gaithe. I also learned that POTEMKIN PICTURES itself (i.e. The 13th episode of Starship Antyllus (and the second for the year) tackled the often-controversial topics of faith and God. Soon I awakened, and there I was, veritably myself again.
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