Bionic Buzz® got to cover the red carpet of the 14th Annual Indie Series Awards at The Colony Theatre in Burbank, California. Founded by We Love Soaps LLC’s Roger Newcomb in 2009, the Indie Series Awards celebrate the best in independently produced entertainment created for the Web. Indie series are to Network TV series what Independent Films are to mainstream movies; innovation and creativity thrive and fanatical followers are the norm.
The ISAs honor a genre that emphasizes artistic merit and social impact over corporate profits, however, the overall quality of the nominated shows is comparable to that of most TV sitcom or dramas—in fact, several past winners went on to partner with traditional television content providers.
On the red carpet our own Jackie Lewis got to interview the following: Susan Lanier (Producer / Actress from Red Rooms), Joshua Butler (Creator & Director of Red Rooms), Rhys Samuel Washington & A’ Lexiz Dennis (Hope Deferred), Chris Galassi & Alyssa Jacoby (Hope Deferred), Mike Caral (Composer for When Doves Cry), Ric de Barros (Lucidus Somnia Podcast Series), Curt Wiser (A Voice in Violet Podcast Series), Richard Seneque (Visionaries Audio Drama), Rita Sistrunk (Visionaries Audio Drama), Heaven Nikitenko (Visionaries Audio Drama), Bryson Robinson (Odd Man Out: The Series), Elliott J Holmes (Odd Man Out: The Series), Kash Hovey (On Air with Ka$h), Valerie Brandy (Actress from Wish), Kurtis De’Jon & Jason J. Battle (Complicated: Atlanta), Shayniah Brown, Christopher Smith & Devon Scott (Complicated: Atlanta), Angeline Walsh, Cedric Gegel & Jeremy Gladen (The Coroner’s Assistant), Joy Valentine & Whitney Morrow (Complicated: Atlanta), Kira Reed Lorsch (Executive Producer & Actress from Rumors), Dave Cobert (Actor from Sweetwater), Jason Stuart, Carole White & Mitch Hara (Smothered), Patrika Darbo with Kevin Spirtas (Actress and Host of Inide Series Awards), Kareem Ferguson (Smothered), Martinez (Smothered), Alezehh (Actress), Ellen Gerstein (Smothered), Kate Linder (Actress from The Young and the Restless), Armand Fields (Smothered), Rico E. Anderson (Actor from S.W.A.T. and Truth Be Told), Jessica A. Caesar (Caesar’s Special), Brad Ulbrich, Eric Lutz, Marni Lustig & George Barr (Status Updates), Alexandria Denise (Odd Man Out: The Series), Martha Madison (The Case Within Podcast Series), Jasper Cole, Yorke Fryer & Ralph Cole Jr. (The Case Within Podcast Series), Sonya Joyner & Joseph Goncalves (The Case Within Podcast Series).
Video edited by Steve Sievers. Produced by Jackie Lewis of Bionic Buzz. Camera work by David LaPorte.