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My first encounter with Arrowstorm Entertainment was a Kickstarter Campaign for The Crown and the Dragon, a fantasy epic which the company was making on a small budget with final production funds raised via crowdfunding. Since then, Arrowstorm has mastered the art of the indie productions by leveraging their fanbase to help them produce a number of projects including Magellan, one of their latest ventures.

Directed by Arrowstorm regular Rob York, Magellan is mostly a one-man show in which Brandon Ray Olive stars as Commander Roger Nelson, an astronaut sent on a mission to track down the source of three mysterious signals emanating from across the galaxy. It's a long and lonely mission but one the commander takes on, leaving behind his wife to await his return.

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CONtv just launched earlier this month, but the convention and pop culture-focused streaming network already has a big piece of content planned. The Cinedigm and Wizard World-owned channel will release its first feature-length film Mythica: A Quest for Heroes on March 31, 2015.

Mythica: A Quest for Heroes is the first flick in a larger, epic trilogy. The first CONtv film tells the story of Marek (played by Survivor’s Melanie Stone), an escaped servant who learns to develop her unique powers through her wizard mentor Gojun (acted by fan-favorite Kevin Sorbo of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Andromeda). After her sister Teela (Dawn of the Dragonslayer’s Nicola Posener) is kidnapped by an ogre, Marek gathers a motley gang of adventurers to help her rescue her sister from captivity.

The first Mythica film is directed by Anne K. Black (The Crown and the Dragon), who told Yahoo Finance the female-driven story...

Having breathed enough mythological fire to secure the Best Fantasy Film prize at BleedFest in Los Angeles, Anne K. Black's Dawn of the Dragon Slayer is heading to UK stores on DVD and Blu-ray on February 13, 2012.

The film is the first fantasy dragon feature to be directed by a woman and Anne presented the world premiere of the movie at BleedFest last September.

The festival is held in Los Angeles every month and celebrates "the women who love writing, producing, directing, and watching badass genre movies: action, thriller, sci-fi, horror, fantasy, western, exploitation (of men or audience only), B-movie, and erotica."

It was the first directing role for Anne, who also co-wrote the special effects extravaganza and previously co-scripted the 2003 modern-day update of Pride & Prejudice. After the praise for Dawn of The Dragon Slayer, she is now finishing work on another sword-and-sorcery film titled The Virgin And The Warrior.