Decentralized filmmaking ecosystem Film.io recently announced the winner of its Creator Contest, awarding film funds totaling $10,000 to ChickenShip — an original concept created by Emmy Award-winning comedian/actor/writer/producer Craig Shoemaker and celebrated animator David Feiss, creator of Cow and Chicken, I Am Weasel and YooHoo and Friends. The winner was selected from thousands of entries in a vote by fans in the Film.io DAO.
The project is an animated comedy series about a fearless chicken crew aboard the SS Coop who must uncover the truth behind genetically modified Bitcorn that threatens their planet. The project creators provided concept artwork and an early teaser trailer, which you can watch below.
“Dave and I are absolutely thrilled with the positive responses we have received for our project. Both of us have had a great deal of success in Hollywood, but the traditional pathways of show business have become antiquated,” said Shoemaker. “The decision makers are often unoriginal, fear-based and lack the nerve to create something bold and fresh. That’s why we are so thrilled to be a part of Film.io, an innovative approach to the creative process where our team gets to work with the authentic devotees of the animation art form. All hail ChickenShip!”
The winner was chosen based on fan engagement and support for the project using ‘FAN Tokens.’ These were airdropped to members who joined Film.io’s Early Access, used by fans to and increase the Go Score™ of their favorite project, moving it along Film.io’s ecosystem twoard opportunities like production, funding, distribution, and other filmmaking tools. The Go Score™ is a project’s success fingerprint and represents aggregate totals from fan collaboration with token stakes, project reviews, project shares and a host of other in-platform gamified engagements that are engineered to better predict a project’s success long before production costs are incurred.
Film.io notes that the Creator Contest was an extremely close race for the most fan engagement, and runner-up mentions go to Absolute Zero, created by Bryce Hatch; and Saurus City, written and directed by Nate Smith, starring Dennis Quaid, Ron Perlman, Emma Roberts, Julia Ormond and Tim Meadows.
Participants who submitted projects but did not win the grand prize received 10,000 free FAN Tokens to continue participating in the DAO and shaping a future where entertainment is fair, transparent and inclusive. Filmmakers also become eligible for grants from the Global Creativity Foundation, an ownerless non-profit organization that supports the democratization of the filmmaking industry.
“With the strikes in Hollywood, and personal experience of working as a female in film, it is extremely evident that the industry is broken,” said Lauren Magura, Co-Creator of Film.io and the VP of Entertainment at Ingredient X. “At Film.io we have made it our mission to create an ecosystem where decisions are made, and content is greenlit by the creatives and fans actually behind making the machine run. Our creator contest is a tiny example of how powerful Film.io is at garnering fan support and collaboration to greenlight diverse entertainment the world is authentically interested in viewing.”
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