Pioneer One
Pioneer One is an American science fiction series from independent production. It is distributed free of charge and exclusively over the Internet. Hauptverteilungsweg is the BitTorrent network, the series is offered on many major BitTorrent portals, now also an online stream has been established.
The series is licensed under the Creative Commons License Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial -ShareAlike 3.0 ( CC BY-NC -SA ).
Action
The story begins on the day of the crash of a manned Soviet space capsule near Edmonton. The U.S. investigators are set by senior officials and politicians under pressure to describe the incident as a terrorist act. However, they quickly suspect another explanation: The surviving occupant of the capsule, an unknown Russian, could be the participants of a Soviet expedition to Mars from the 1980s.
Production
The series is produced by Josh Bernhard and Bracey Smith, who previously produced the film The Lionshare, which was also distributed free via BitTorrent.
The pilot episode was released in June 2010. It was produced with a budget of $ 7,500, which were collected on the crowdfunding site kickstarter.com. More episodes of Pioneer One was financed by donations from the audience.
Filming took place among others in Binghampton.
On 13 December 2011, the sixth and final episode of the first season has been released. Until the season finale over 87,000 U.S. dollars were collected in donations via the portal VODO. If one uses the makers of the underlying calculation, landed "Pioneer One" so that in the profit zone. According to the makers of the excess shall go into the production of a new season.
By early July 2010, the pilot episode has been downloaded over a million times via BitTorrent. In addition, over 300,000 downloads of the high-resolution version. The series was honored at the New York Television Festival as best drama pilot episode.
Subtitles in different languages are created by volunteers on the Internet portal addic7ed.com. German and English subtitles are also tv4user.de.
Occupation
- James Rich as Tom Taylor
- Alexandra sheet as Sofie Larson
- Jack Haley as Dr. Zachary Walzer [ Matthew Foster waltz played in the original version of the pilot episode ]
- Guy Wegener as Vernon
- E. James Ford as Dileo
- Laurence Cantor Norton
- Kathleen O'Loughlin as Christa
- Einar Gunn as McClellan