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Brian Shoaf‘s directorial debut might have found its second wind. After a failed Kickstarter attempt to drum up some coin with Adrien Grenier and Mamie Gummer toplining, now Variety reports that Jenny Slate is in negotiations to join Zachary Quinto on Aardvark. Susan Leber (Hello I Must Be Going), Neal Dodson (A Most Violent Year) and Quinto are producing. Filming is expected to begin this December in New York with supporting cast announcements likely in the works.

Gist: Aardvark centers on Josh Norman, a man who has spent most of his adult life suffering from mental illness. While Josh rejects the labels that have been applied to him over the years, there is no question that he sees and hears things that aren’t there. Sometimes he’s well aware of this, but other times it’s not so clear. Josh’s most vivid hallucinations involve his estranged brother,...

Festivals can create new markets. Sundance ignited the independent film boom in the 1990s after a few of its selections did well at the box office and major studios started picking them up for distribution. Today, while indie filmmakers are struggling to find financing, television is ascendant, with filmmakers from Andrew Haigh, Jill Soloway, Jane Campion, Lena Dunham and David Fincher moving to serialized storytelling for its stability, rising cachet and the ability to tell longer stories. Festivals are adapting to the change. This year, Sundance opened its famous incubation lab to television stories (by invitation only) and the Independent Filmmakers Project started accepting web series proposals for its emerging storytellers program. The Tribeca Film Festival has showcased digital storytelling for years, too. But this year it's stepping up its game with the Tribeca N.O.W. program, a showcase of a dozen filmmakers, producers, writers and artists releasing compelling work online.

We've heard some pretty terrible wedding disaster stories here at HuffPost Weddings, but those featured in a new video by Periods. Films may take the cake.

Periods. recently released a feature-length film, "Breakup at a Wedding," that centers around an utterly disastrous fictional wedding. Filmmaker Victor Quinaz took a web survey asking fans to submit their own wedding disaster stories in conjunction with the release of film; in the video above, actor Zachary Quinto reads three of the most harrowing tales. In one story, a former bride remembers the nude portraits of her and her husband drawn in their guestbook, and in another, a guest recalls the time a bridesmaid threw up on the bride and all over the couple's cake. Yikes.

Quinaz also interviewed real-life couples, wedding guests, wedding vendors and others about the most jaw-dropping events they'd ever witnessed at weddings. Click through the slideshow below to take a look at those interviews,...

The Periods. film collective has been specializing in quality, re-interpreted historical comedy films for a few years now, finding viral and critical success online, but recently some more high-profile names have joined their fold.

Zach Quinto joined up with the filmmakers for 2010's "Before After," and now Penn Badgley is starring in the newest Periods. short film, "East of Eden," which is a wonderfully anachronistic take on the classic Steinbeck tale.

The New York-based crew recently showcased 13 of their shorts in Los Angeles as part of the HollyShorts Festival at Grauman's Chinese Theatre, including their unique takes on "Deer Hunter," "Ethan Frome," and the story of the pilgrims.

Watch their "East of Eden" below, and let us know your thoughts in the comments section.