The critically acclaimed Riese: Kingdom Falling is distributed by Fireworks International, the television and digital distribution arm of ContentFilm plc. Each episode runs approximately seven to eight minutes.
Narrated by Amanda Tapping (Sanctuary), the 10-part series stars a cavalcade of talent from the world of popular speculative drama including Christine Chatelain (The Bone Collector); Sharon Taylor (Stargate Universe); Ben Cotton (Harper’s Island), Allison Mack (Smallville); Ryan Robbins (Caprica); Patrick Gilmore (Stargate Universe); Alessandro Juliani (Battlestar Galactica) and Emilie Ullerup (Sanctuary).
The series will also be available via Sony’s PS3, Microsoft’s Xbox and Amazon.
Said Engler: “We saw Riese and thought they had done just an amazing job, and then we were able to give them some resources and bring Amanda on board to really help them take the series to the next level. I think new and existing fans will love the relaunch of the series onSyfy.com and enjoy all the new additions.”
Steampunk is a sub-genre of science fiction and fantasy that features anachronistic technology and design elements, often from Victorian-era Britain.
Riese:Kingdom Falling won the Streamy Award for Best Cinematography in a Web Series with a further three nominations for Best Sound Design, Best Foreign Series and Art Direction. The series was shot in Vancouver, BC, created by Ryan Copple and Kaleena Kiff, and produced by Galen Fletcher and Nicholas Humphries.
(via » Riese the Series)
This practice has emerged quickly. It has taken less than a decade to move from amateur productions filmed by a couple in their one bedroom apartment with consumer-grade cameras, to budgeted (albeit low by motion picture standards) productions with multi-camera multi-angle set ups, and awards granted for cinematography. The existence of awards points to an infrastructure created to recognize and encourage achievement. This infrastructure exists outside of, and in parallel to, the one that recognizes achievements in film (oscars, et al) and television (emmies, et al). It has become more highly specialized than the webbies, which would have granted awards to very early productions.
The series was originally available at http://riesetheseries.com/ and is also, now, available through http://www.hulu.com/
The genre of steampunk asks and addresses the question: “What if Babbage and Lovelace’s visions had been realized, and we had access to high speed, machine assisted computation a century before the existence of digital-electronic computation?”