Six Feet Under

This is what awaits you if you visit the companion website for the upcoming MTV Networks’ web series, Valemont, which will premieres tomorrow for a 12-episode run on MTV before heading to an online-only release of the remaining 23 episodes. I had a chance to speak with co-creator Brent Friedman of Electric Farm about this unique transmedia experience that blends product placement, Arg elements, and web content into an exciting murder mystery plotline that may or may not have a supernatural twist. The multiplatform series stars a number of notable young actors like Nikki Blonsky, Kristen Hager, Georgina Reilly and Six Feet Under's Eric Balfour. For the specifics of how this project came together, we asked Friedman to fill us in. "Valemont originated about a year ago when Electric Farm Entertainment began discussions with MTV about producing a branded entertainment series," said Friedman. "I created the show with Christian Taylor, »
- Jenni Powell

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Clare Nina Norelli is a writer/musician/composer who lives in Perth, Western Australia. At age 8, she began learning classical piano and enrolled to study at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (Waapa) in 2004. She soon realised that the regiments of classical music performance were no longer for her (she jazzed up Beethoven a bit too much) and changed her major to Composition in 2005. In 2006 Clare wrote the music for the short film Gusto and her work was nominated for the award for original music composition in the 2007 West Australian Screen Awards. In 2007 she presented a paper at the Totally Huge New Music Festival on Angelo Badalamenti`s film and TV music for David Lynch entitled, Suburban Dread. She continued her film music research in 2008 writing her Musicology dissertation on Bernard Herrmann`s scores for Citizen Kane, Vertigo and Taxi Driver. Clare also performs around Perth as a pianist »
- Ricky

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Last week at the Toronto International Film Festival, I sat down with a number of the main players of “Leslie, My Name is Evil” - Reginald Harkema’s pulpy and political black comedy about Charlie Manson devotee Leslie Van Houten. First up is a chat with Kristen Hager, who plays the infamous Leslie, and Gregory Smith, who plays juror Perry in the piece.  Hit the jump to read about moving from small towns and innocent “Everwood” to sadistic murderers and religious folk, love of all things Canada, and the vampires and cops that are in their future.
Q: How did you both get involved with the film?
Hager: The old-fashioned way - I auditioned and got the role - that’s about it.
Smith: I did a movie a couple years ago, and the director of that movie and Reginald Harkema were friends, so he told him about me, and »
- Monika Bartyzel

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