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April 17, 2003
DOT press release
It's video news day at the New Improv Page. Item 1:
Sneaky Kings sent along this press release.
Sneaky Kings Productions announces that they have signed a domestic video & DVD distribution deal for DOT with Vanguard. DOT hit the shelves 24 Dec 2002.
DOT, winner of Slamdunk's Best Comedy and The Independent Spirit Awards, is a groundbreaking mockumentary of nine months in the life of Zectek.com, an Internet startup company. A social satire and sly comedy of manners unfolds through "behind-the-scenes footage" and interviews with the company�s founders and employees. As Zectek.com rides the e-commerce roller coaster, the twenty and thirty-something�s that run it have their lives turned repeatedly inside out.
The proud parents of company are visionary con man/philosopher Si (Simeon Schnapper), naive salesman Mitch (Michael Mazzarra) and cynical technical wizard Stan (Steve Walker). These slacker/nerds-turned-entrepreneurs are soon joined by employees as neurotic as they are: Smart and sensuous Jane (Jamie McMillan), earnest fruitcake Ross (Mathew O'Neil) and pragmatic pixie receptionist Maria (Katherine M. Ripley).
Witness: strategic meetings turned to fist fights!
See: advisory boards that include the Jolly Green Giant.
Experience: a cutting-edge comedy about period in our culture so far ahead of itself that it's present is pass�.
DOT is the brainchild and debut feature production of Sneaky Kings�, a Chicago-based production company made up of local theater and independent film alumni, guerilla filmmakers and e-business veterans. Sneaky Kings producers Simeon Schnapper and Brett Singer shot the feature locally and cut it in-house with Apple�s Final Cut Pro.
You can buy DOT from Amazon.
Posted by Fuzzy at April 17, 2003 5:24 PM