L5 is now available for download at Vodo.net!

http://vodo.net/l5

In addition to announcing the release, we wanted to make sure that all of our donors were recognized.  We had a clerical error and realized that some of the donors did not make it into the credits on the Vodo release, however when we release after 60 days on youtube and vimeo, the full donor list will be available.

Kickstarter Phase 1 Donors:

Paulo Contopoulos
TC Hashioka
Benjamin Haley
Marian Such
FEMOGUSE
Evan Bregman
Michael Ballaschk
Danai Kittivathana
Darren Darnborough
Aaron Bleackley
Zach Lorden
Ben Stokes
Brett McDowell
Sukrit Ranjan
Derek Winters
Unsquander
Taylor Veltrop
Nathan Lawrence
Alexandria Rosales
Marcin Segit
Starrla
Jonkrusell
Wouter Schreuders
Miquel Martin
Vinzster
David Williams
Stephen Murphey
Alberto Nem Parera
Joshua Davis
Anthony
Kendall Scott
Tim Merrick
Al LeVine
Jake C
Martin Hencz
Jeffrey Frasure
Matthew J. Breyfogle
Joan varitek
Bryce Lynch
Brian Schwartz
Joshua Cook
James
Rick Mitchell
Steven Benning
Paul Graham
Chris Radcliff
Eric Jankowski
Bruno Babic
Aaron Miller
Alex Koch
Neil Peck
Steven P Curtis
Andy Steiner
Steven Zakulec
Dennis Shows
Josh Kraus
Klaus Kluge
David West
Michael C. Potter
James Marshall
Mike Palmer
Craig Schwartz
Lisa Buda
D’vorah
Agge
Nic Clatworthy
Maria Medvey
Nick Guggemos
Eric Uskali
Elliot Goodman
Voidref
David Shane
John Bowditch
Soesoe
2percentright
Loic Dumonceau
Andrew Glazer
Bryan Price
Marc “Traveller” Miller
Eric Pynonnen
Russell Smithers
Paul A. Stolen
Eric Menees
Lee Kenning
Markus Baur
Betsy Lipes
Andrew Heidgerken
Dzamkov
Joel Friesen
Duane Oldsen
Kyle Perkins
James Millard
Mariola Von Medvey
Zon117
Shikiu Ing
Bill White
Carl Hosp
Laura Whisman
Steven Moy
Philip Ratzsch
Ryan Cousins
Robin Phillips
David Freidin
Andrew Boulton
Chad Thelen
Barry Veale
David Jackson
Jesse Clark
Joanna Chodakowska
Debra Koziarz
Joseph Suber
Mark Benning
Chris Escobedo
Dan Toops
Laurent Leclerc
Marcin Hencz
Christopher Dabrowski
Chris Boylan
Stanley Von Medvey
Alex Braden
Petey Wheatstraw
Nicholas A. C. Read

Kickstarter Phase 2 Donors:

Seth Wegner
Eric Billingsley
Stephen Prather
Max’b
Ian Peterson
Kiku Terasaki
Robert Gonyea
Eric Edmonds
Andrew Cox
Russ Petrick
Mark Gardner
J. Pablo Fernandez
Dallas Thiessen
Paul S. White
Matthew Howell
Naim Falandino
Brady J. Frey
Gabriel Loukeris
Andy Thorington
Benjamin Savage
Robby Goodman
Robert Helvie
Oscar Eslava Alvarez
Fred Corchero
Juha Autero
Graham
Paul Graham
Caryn Levy
Peter Sistina
Arnout
John Young
Caitlin O’Brient
Megan Holmstedt
Mike Griffen
Matt Stanton
Jeremy Grosser
Nick Wolf
2percentright
Grenville Wilson
TaoZero
Itak Kaarta
H. Lynnea
Paul M. Lambert
Maria Knecht
Bryant O’Hara
Joe Sergi
Vance Adkins
Andrew Chan
Dan Pavelin
DarkSapiens
Chip Hinshaw
Starrla
Vulcanoid
Kaelan Strouse
Alex de la Mare
Sanjay Raveendran
Rick Webb
Joseph Baneth Allen
Robert Schultz
John Colagioia
J. Dougan
Steven Zakulec
Dan Fraczkowski
Chad Thelen
Georg GH
Carol Ptasinski
David Ford
E.T. Young
John Kostrzewski
Peter McQuillan
Ryan Mack

Fundraising Event:

Jon Chapman
Norman Feldt
Ben Teffel
Nicolas Francois
Michelle Brewster
Ognjew & Marijana Guzina
Paul Vnuic
Janusz & Marlena Pedzinksi
Robert, Aron, Nike Pajda
David Benning
Jonathan Gordon
Peter Seman
Magdalena Hebal
Fernando Villagomez
Sean Murphy

Indiegogo donors:

Boxley1
Pglyzun
Michael Tyderek
DarkSapiens
Steven Grimm
Ronald Apple
Peter Holthaus
Jpacooney
Alan Westbrook
Drshows
Joe Shuttle
Rhonda Abrons
Debra Koziarz
Jdougan
Sknavis88
Naviscj816
Rami.sihvo
Dan Toops
Jason Chodakowski
Brent Werness
Per Kristian Engebretsen
Korethl5music
Stephen Poon
Alexander Braden
Neil Peck
Molong Li
Matthew Beresford-Long
Mark Benning
Ian Matyssik
Felipe Gutierrez
Eric Thomas
Nout Capiau
Russell J Petrick

Official Release Trailer for L5!

L5 is a crowd-funded, independent miniseries project that began on Kickstarter.com.

With an overall budget of $15,000, the Hemogoblin team worked countless hours in post production over a year to create the pilot episode. Our desire was to demonstrate how far you can go on a shoestring, outside the system, using disruptive innovation to build a film from the ground up.

Well, we are beginning to come out of our caves and see sunlight for the first time in ages. Exhausted, with bats in our beards and nearly penniless, we are finally approaching our release day for L5, living proof that cloud based, low budget production can produce wonders.

l5-series.com

Please check it out!  We are SO CLOSE!!!

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Here is our pitch video:

Just a little peek at what has been consuming our lives for 80 hours a week, and the last 4 months.  We are nearing the end, she’s almost ready!

Welcome to L5.

Check out our Phase 2 Kickstarter.com page!

Imagine returning from an exhausting adventure only to find that your home is abandoned, empty. Not just your home, but your neighborhood, your city, in fact, everyone, everywhere, seems to be missing. This is what happens to the crew of the first manned mission to Barnard’s Star – they return after awakening from suspended animation to find that their ship-board AI has sent them on a relativistic tour of the stellar neighborhood while they slumbered, dilating time so severely that nearly 200 years have passed on Earth. After coming to, they discover their vessel is adrift at LaGrange point 5, within visual range of a vast O’neill cylinder-colony. The night side of the Earth shows no lights, and no one answers their calls across all frequencies. They have no choice but to dock with the colony and explore its cavernous interior in the hopes of finding help. When they find the colony to be airless and devoid of life, the remains of human civilization baking in the Sun for decades, their predicament becomes even more dire. Following in the traditions of great legendary hard science fiction, their exploration of this relic of their own civilization will take them on a trans-humanistic and spiritual sojourn.

L5 is a hard science fiction dramatic miniseries for online distribution. The first episode of the miniseries will be 25 minutes, and will depict the late homecoming of the astronauts and the first steps towards exploring the interior of L5.

The pilot episode of L5 wil be distributed through Vimeo and Youtube in high definition, as well as quicktime format on our website, and will be promoted as viral content on web forums, news fed sites, emails, as well as a production blog that will have production information and artwork, and most excitingly, the step by step construction process of the replica spacesuits.

Distribution and production of further episodes will be determined by the response to the pilot. Possible distribution methods include branded content or partnering with a torrent site.

So what guarantees that this will be ‘hard’ science fiction? The director, Stanley Von Medvey. Before pursuing concept artwork and film making as a career, Stanley began as an astrophysics student at the University of Chicago. He designed small payloads for the space shuttle and NASA’s sounding rocket program. Since switching careers, he has maintained close ties with the aerospace community, is an active member of the National Space Society, engaged in such projects as working with think tanks and lobby groups to promote Space Based Solar Power through viral marketing. In short, Stanley is an obsessed science geek.

What will make it have dramatic punch? Tom Ptasinski, our writer. He served as head of development at David Foster Productions and has worked with Frank Darabont. He has an extensive directorial background in short films, web series and theater, and is presently working in Hollywood as a writer and director. He also runs his own successful sketch comedy troupe, and is supremely versatile as both a compelling dramatic writer and a sketch comic.

This, along with the talented help of Studio Hemogoblin, will give you an unforgettable, transcendental experience, right here in your browser.