The Doctor Is IN | Fan Film Follies

Plymouth Rocks

NEWS: One of our favorite recent fan films, A Survivor’s Triangle, has completed its weekly serialization on YouTube, and is now available as a continuous movie on DailyMotion; see it here. It definitely plays better as an uninterrupted presentation rather than in ten minute chunks. We will be bringing more coverage of this excellent production [...]

Published by JE Smith on December 29th, 2010 at 10:12 am

5

The Masters of Luxor

In 1963, as the very first season of Doctor Who was gearing up for broadcast, the show’s format and direction were still taking shape. Writer Anthony Coburn had been commissioned to write the first four-part story, including the revolutionary pilot episode. On the strength of this work, Coburn was also hired to write the followup [...]

Published by JE Smith on October 7th, 2010 at 05:10 pm

1

Review-O-Rama (Part 2)

NEWS: We are quite excited to see that Julian Bane has finally released part two of his cool new DW fan film Alternate Empire, which can be viewed here. Part one was one of those cases where a pretty sophisticated project just seemed to pop up on YouTube with no notice or fanfare,

Published by JE Smith on September 17th, 2010 at 04:09 pm

0

Review-O-Rama

Howdy Who fans and welcome to the fifth installment of my little corner of Fan Film Follies. This is the first of a two-part column in which I’ll review some fan film productions that have recently come to my attention, and are worthy of your time. If you have a DW fan film you’d like [...]

Published by JE Smith on September 8th, 2010 at 09:09 am

2

Mission to the Unknown

My apologies for the delay in this fourth installment of my Who fan film column – a couple of topics I’ve been preparing aren’t quite ready for publication just yet, but more importantly, the new season of “real” Doctor Who has recently debuted on the BBC (and BBC-America) after quite a long hiatus, bringing with [...]

Published by JE Smith on May 19th, 2010 at 08:05 am

3

Doctor Who Fan Films: A Primer

The sheer volume of fan films – in any genre – can often be daunting in this everything-on-the-internet age. Having recently re-acquainted myself with the Star Wars fan film universe, I popped over to TheForce.net and faced pages and pages of links and wondered to myself, “Which are the good ones? How many of these [...]

Published by JE Smith on March 31st, 2010 at 10:03 am

0

10 Questions for Adam Manning

Although I’d been exploring fan films for several years, and had even seen a few Who-related ones, I wasn’t aware of any gathering place for fan film fans and filmmakers until signing on to the now-defunct Outpost Gallifrey website, back in the early days of this century.

Published by JE Smith on March 10th, 2010 at 08:03 am

0

An Unearthly Column

“We are not of this Earth. We are wanderers in the fourth dimensions of Space and Time – cut off from our own planet and our own people, by eons and universes that are far beyond the reach of your most advanced sciences!”

Published by JE Smith on March 2nd, 2010 at 07:03 am