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Halo: Helljumper

An unofficial web series based on Microsoft’s acclaimed video game franchise, Halo. Adapted from the short story, “Dirt,” By Tobias S. Buckell, it tells the story of a few human ODSTs as they fight through 27 years of brutal war with the Covenant. They evolve from a rag tag group of recruits in the UNSC [...]

Mariner: ‘Revelations & Anomalies’

Fan films (or independent productions, if you prefer) run the gamut from space battles over the fate of the universe to intimate, personal stories that focus on characters and the relationships between them.
An excellent example of that second type of story is the newly released “Revelations & Anomalies” from the Mariner animated series.
The episode begins [...]

Star Wars Uncut: Director’s Cut

In 2009, Casey Pugh asked thousands of Internet users to remake “Star Wars: A New Hope” into a fan film, 15 seconds at a time. Contributors were allowed to recreate scenes from Star Wars however they wanted. Within just a few months SWU grew into a wild success. The creativity that poured into the project [...]

Lord of the Rings: ‘Born of Hope’

One of the joys of writing Fan Film Friday is discovering independent productions that reach as high a level of quality as professional projects. One film that attains this standard is Lord of the Rings: “Born of Hope.”
Set before The Hobbit (coming soon to a theater near you) and The Lord of the Rings trilogy [...]

Batman: Death Wish

Jennifer Zhang shares her latest joint-nerdy fan film endeavor with the Follies. Batman: Death Wish is written by Zhang and directed by Matthew Hiscox. They both co-produced. Death Wish premiered it at the Arizona Comic Con this past weekend.
The film is an original Batman story — 12 minutes long — written in a way that [...]

The Caped Crusader

We are trying to gain a little public interest in our major fan film project entitled “The Caped Crusader”. The fan film is set in the Nolan-verse of Batman and will be the most ambitious fan film project anyone could ask for. We will be including an actual working tumbler replica in the film and [...]

1960′s Batman Lost Episode

When the Joker and Catwoman team up in small town Savannah, GA, the dynamic duo must postpone their weekend getaway to foil these diabolical fiends’ evil plot to take over the world. Will our heroes be able to save Savannah, Gotham City and the world as we know it, in time to enjoy Savannah’s rustic [...]

Batman: Deliverance

French director Pierre Desgranges and Atomic Production have produced a Dark Knight Returns-inspired short film called Batman Deliverance that takes key elements of Frank Miller’s landmark comic — an aging Bruce Wayne, a Gotham plunged into chaos — and adds a bit of a twist. A hirsute, clawed twist. There’s more style over substance in [...]

Star Trek: ’1701 Pennsylvania Av.’

What would it be like if the president was a big Star Trek fan? No, I’m not referring to Barack Obama, I’m talking about Richard Nixon!

Batman: ‘New Times’

I never thought much of Minimates or Lego toys until I learned they were used in an animated production featuring the voices of Adam West as Batman and Mark Hamill as the Joker!
Entitled Batman: “New Times,” the 12-minute film was created by the 2004 graduating class at the DAVE School of Digital Animation and Visual [...]