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[The following is a guest post from Ifp Screen Forward Labs participant Christian Lybrook.] “It’s great. What are you going to do with it?” A friend — a filmmaker and media strategist — asked this question after watching the pilot to our pre-apocalyptic thriller Zero Point. But let’s back up a sec… Two years ago, Gregory Bayne and I set out to make a web series — 8-12 minute episodes, maybe we’d do six episodes in a season. We’d put it out on the web and hopefully people would watch. That was our original plan. But something happened along the […]...

[The following is a guest post from Ifp Screen Forward Labs participant Christian Lybrook.] “It’s great. What are you going to do with it?” A friend — a filmmaker and media strategist — asked this question after watching the pilot to our pre-apocalyptic thriller Zero Point. But let’s back up a sec… Two years ago, Gregory Bayne and I set out to make a web series — 8-12 minute episodes, maybe we’d do six episodes in a season. We’d put it out on the web and hopefully people would watch. That was our original plan. But something happened along the […]...

Screening in the Tribeca Film Festival’s Tribeca N.O.W. section (as in, “new online work”) is Gregory Bayne and Christian Lybrook’s Zero Point, a 45-minute independently-produced pilot for what the two Idaho-based creators hope will be full-on television series. Director, producer and screenwriter Bayne is well known to Filmmaker readers by virtue of his various documentaries (Jens Pulver Driven, Bloodsworth) and opinion pieces, and he’s been at the Diy distribution forefront long before it was in vogue. So, perhaps its appropriate, then, that he and producer and screenwriter Lybrook are now early adopters of a new indie model: rather than make […]...

Screening in the Tribeca Film Festival’s Tribeca N.O.W. section (as in, “new online work”) is Gregory Bayne and Christian Lybrook’s Zero Point, a 45-minute independently-produced pilot for what the two Idaho-based creators hope will be full-on television series. Director, producer and screenwriter Bayne is well known to Filmmaker readers by virtue of his various documentaries (Jens Pulver Driven, Bloodsworth) and opinion pieces, and he’s been at the Diy distribution forefront long before it was in vogue. So, perhaps its appropriate, then, that he and producer and screenwriter Lybrook are now early adopters of a new indie model: rather than make […]...

Read More: Tribeca Video: Artists Discuss Generating Content in the Brave New Online World This Tribeca Talk featured the creative minds behind this year's Tribeca N.O.W. (New Online Work), which celebrates creators working in the online space, including web series, animation, documentary and comedy. In this clip, actor and comedian Drew Droege, best known for his funny online impressions of Chloë Sevigny, gives advice about show business. "Make what you like," he says, explaining that if you try to do what's "trending" or "hot," you will always fail -- instead, people should make projects they feel passionate about. Droege's own videos were online for three months with under 100 hits, until one day they suddenly went everywhere. Droege admits luck and timing play a big role in industry success.  Droege was joined by Bianca Giaever, Jayson Musson ("Adventures of Jamel") and Gregory Bayne ("Zero Point") at...