The wait is over! Local award-winning film makers recently announced the Savvy Spinster Does the Cinema web series will be available for everyone to enjoy at www.savvyspinster.com starting Feb. 14.
After it’s successful world premiere at the Gorge Cinema last April, the entire comedy series will be released over several weeks online. It will be free to view. The launch will include a number of behind-the-scenes interviews and never-before-seen footage.
The producers also announced the series has been selected to Web Series Festival Global, 2015, Hollywood. The web festival runs in early August.
Savvy Spinster Does the Cinema is a live action comedy web series for adults about a middle aged woman who works at a small movie theatre in hopes of meeting “Mr. Right.”
Over the course of nine short episodes (each one a spoof of a different film genre from rom-com to horror) she discovers that love never works out like it does in the movies.
The web series came about when the film makers decided to resurrect a character from the short film, Mousey Spinster, which took home an audience choice award from a Toronto film festival several years ago.
The spinster is played by Guelph actor, Jen Daniels.
Members of Buttertart Productions (Eliza Crosland, Jen Daniels, Mary Lalonde and Ed Mochrie) come from Fergus, Guelph and Guelph/Eramosa.
They shot the web series over nine days at the Gorge Cinema in Elora.
Producers note there were many logistical obstacles to the shoe string production including shooting around the cinema’s screenings and the fact costumes, art direction and lighting changed significantly from episode to episode.
The production received support from local businesses like Brodericks for Men, Ron Wilkin Jewellers, Little Tree Nursery and Guelph Little Theatre. Producers are thankful to have had the donation of the cinema location and the technical support from Ed Video Media Arts Centre in Guelph. Over thirty talented cast and crew from Fergus, Guelph, Kitchener, Toronto and Mississauga volunteered their skills and time.
