Pioneer One
Pioneer One is a 2010 American web series produced by Josh Bernhard and Bracey Smith. It has been funded purely through donations, and is the first series created for and released on BitTorrent networks.
Background
Pioneer One is a serialized drama produced and distributed online through VODO and the DISCO network. Downloaded more than 3,730,000 times since May 2012 and winner for Best Drama Pilot at the 2010 New York Television Festival, the show is independently produced and financed by viewer donations. The pilot episode was filmed on a budget of $6,000,raised in advance using Kickstarter. The series itself was released under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Creative Commons license and is distributed for free in collaboration with VODO, as with Bernhard's previous independent film The Lionshare, over the Internet including peer-to-peer networks. So far, six episodes have been produced. Production of the rest of the season is funded through direct donations from the fanbase.
Pioneer One
The race has already begun.
Cast
- James Rich
- Alexandra Blatt
- Jack Haley
- Einar Gunn
- Guy Wegener
- Joshua Wynter
- Aleksandr Evtushenko
- Laura Graham
- Joe Amato
- Kathleen O'Loughlin
- Ari Meisel
- Yvon Pasquarello
- Jena Ellenwood
- E. James Ford
- Louis Meisel
- Joe Wright
- Season 1
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Episode 1: Earthfall
References 'Stanislav Petrov (I)' (qv) in the telephone discussion about the Soviet Union....
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Episode 2: The Man from Mars
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Episode 3: Alone in the Night
Attempts to communicate with the occupant of the strange spacecraft continue to fail as new leaks ou...
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Episode 4: Triangular Diplomacy
Relations between the US and Russia become strained as a series of leaks reveal detail of what is go...
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Episode 5: Sea Change
With the condition of the occupant deteriorating, and the political arguments becoming endless Tom t...
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Episode 6: War of the World
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