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The Tribeca Film Festival announced programming today for its N.O.W. (New Online Works) section, an inspired array of established and emerging creators who are pushing the boundaries of online storytelling.

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Top-lining the section is the premiere of “Awake, A Dream from Standing Rock,” a documentary from the Oscar-nominated team of Josh Fox and James Spione and Executive Producer Shailene Woodley. The project is a collaboration with indigenous filmmaker Myron Dewey about the Native-led resistance against the Dakota Access Pipeline. Eli Roth’s Crypt TV will premiere “Monster Madness,” a series of several character shorts; and Op-Docs, The New York Times’ award-winning forum for short, opinionated documentaries, will screen three films at the Festival.

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Read More: Is Film Piracy Hurting Sundance Filmmakers? This Eye-Opening Infographic Has the Answer In the wake of the complete whitewashing of this year's Oscar nominees, much of this week has been dominated by controversy surrounding diversity and the Academy Awards. As numerous actors and Academy insiders have stepped forward to share their criticisms and solutions, it has become definitively clear that the diversity problem extends way beyond the Academy and reaches the industry as a whole. None of this should necessarily come as news to many readers, but the industry has received a huge wake up call this week and it seems like it will no longer be able to ignore these pressing issues. Adding further fuel to hopefully inspire serious change are new interactive graphs and charts that shine a damaging spotlight on Hollywood's gender divide and its effects on films. Created by Lyle Friedman, Matt Daniels and Ilia Blinderman of Polygraph,...

Matt Berninger of band The National, Karim Amer and Jehane Noujaim from Academy-nominated The Square and Blue Valentine co-writer Cami Delavigne are among participants selected for Sundance Institute’s second Episodic Story Lab.

The 10 Fellows are:

Michael Krikorian for 12 Miles South;

John Lopez for Crude;

Christianne Hedtke for Degenerates;

Maria Melnik for Hell or High Water;

Mishna Wolff for I’m Down;

Matt Berninger and Carin Besser for Mistaken For Strangers;

Mac Smullen for Mk-ultra;

Karim Amer and Jehane Noujaim for Radicals;

Cami Delavigne for The Sleep; and

Akilah Hughes and Lyle Friedman for Unlikely.

Fellows will receive yer-rund support and will work under creative advisors Rich Appel from Family Guy, Mara Brock Akil from Being Mary Jane, Howard Gordon from Homeland and Jenni Konner from Girls, among others.

The 2015 Episodic Story Lab is one of the 24 workshops the Institute hosts each year for independent artists in theatre, film, new media and episodic content.

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This is not your Affleck’s Daredevil.

Netflix today unveiled the first teaser video for its upcoming Marvel’s Daredevil series — starring Boardwalk Empire‘s Charlie Cox as the blind superhero last played by Ben Affleck in 2003’s big-screen adaptation.

Better still, the end of the video suggests an additional teaser trailer coming to the Internet on Wednesday, Feb. 4!

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* Not that she needs more Excuses for Bad Behavior, but Sandra Bernhard (Switched at Birth, Roseanne) will get another when she kicks off a multi-episode arc on 2 Broke Girls,...

Transparent creator Jill Soloway is dipping her toes in the MTV pool, where she's developing a buddy comedy with #HotMessMoves' Ashley Skidmore and Lyle Friedman. The nameless project spotlights two women who meet at a camp and are struck by lightning, according to Variety. Sharing a passion for feminism, the protagonists will try to save womankind ten years after the incident. Skidmore and Friedman will write and executive-produce, while Soloway, who said she's the show's "godmother," will serve as co-ep. Insert your own joke about lightning striking twice for Soloway; we are busy marveling at the chance the leads might have legit superpowers.

MTV is getting into the Jill Soloway business. The network is teaming with the Transparent creator and Upright Citizens Brigade alums Ashley Skidmore and Lyle Friedman for a feminism comedy, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. The untitled comedy centers on two young girls who meet at summer camp and bond over their passion for second-wave feminism. During a wild night in the forest, both girls are struck by lightning and their friendship, power and destiny is fatefully sealed. Now, 10 years later, they romp around town hell-bent on saving all of womankind — if only they could save

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Project Name: #hotmessmoves Asking For: $30,000 on Indiegogo Amount Raised Thus Far (At Time Of Post): $6,390 Days Remaining In Campaign (At Time Of Post): 30 Description: #hotmessmoves is a web series about a pair of women who are described by their own creators as "totally relatable...in the worst way." Thanks to their unending selfishness and self-centered attitudes, the characters played by Ashley Skidmore and Lyle Friedman manage to ruin everything from Game of Thrones to foreplay to pooping. Each #hotmessmoves episode is marked by its own titular hashtag, and while none of the installments last very long, they are not short on laughs. The series' channel, aided by guest appearances from Hannah Hart and Grace Helbig, has managed to rack up more than 1.5 million views in its first year. With their Indiegogo campaign, Skidmore and Friedman hope to fund a third round of sketches to add to their channel.

There are a seemingly endless number of web series detailing the trials faced by twentysomething city dwellers, but few are as intentionally unromantic as #HotMessMoves. The brainchild of two Ucb alums, it follows a pair of conceited, obnoxious, and selfish young women, both of whom are stuck in a rut and doing little to help their respective causes. The two leading ladies in #HotMessMoves are played the series' creators: Ashley Skidmore and Lyle Friedman, who describe their characters as "totally relatable...in the worst way." In the trailer, they sit in a coffee shop and make Bane voices, much to the consternation of everyone else in the vicinity. #HotMessMoves is broken down into 22 short vignettes, none longer than a minute. The coffee short arrived on August 13th, and new installments will arrive every other weekday until the middle of October. From the episodes we've seen, the girls will spend their time discussing their daddy issues,...