What is WITCHFINDERS?
The first 1/2 hour gothic soap opera since Dark Shadows. Simultaneous on-line internet broadcast at onlinetv.com enables audiences all over the world to log on (no downloading, it's easy to use), view the event on their computer screens and participate via live chat.
Content and Format:
The Witchfinders host fast moving morality tests of mental acumen acted by artists/celebrities who constitute the cutting edge of today's culture. Within each show a new gothic song is introduced.
The Witchfinders live in an octagon house in Irvington on the Hudson. They monitor a weekly sincerity competion among their visitors, judged by young sidekicks, "The Octagon Kids," children under the age of eight who are equipped with kidsight, in a hermit dating game, an interactive live chat which is projected across the walls of an octagon room.
Half the show is filmed live before a studio audience, the other half consists of incredible footage, exterior daredevil segments, staged and filmed at various locations during the week.
Each episode is a fast moving twenty-two minute fantasy launching from the world of the familiar into surreal landscapes and alternative habitats.
Benefits for sponsor:
Low cost, high product visibility, targeting two million young affluent consumers worldwide.
Estimated budget for ten shows: $70,000.00
Expected Guest Stars:
Robert Downey Jr., Madonna, McAuley Calkin
Ad Placements!
Listings on searchengines.
Weekly invitations.
Live staged readings.
Logo displayed on stage and behind board during the event.
Magazine publicity, ie. New York Press
Who are WITCHFINDERS?
Precocious high school adolescents who listen to metal music and plot to save the world.
Featuring a cast of "Sidewalk" legends including Erika Belle, Zane Campbell, Lisa Dery, Peter Dizozza, Dan Emery, Steve Espinola, Charles Herold, Jessica Kane, Lach, Faith Palmer-Persen and Debra Wakefield.
Music figures prominently in the show. Each show features performance of a new song.
The shows will be written by a committee, which will also storyboard the filmed segments.
The committee will be headed by Peter Dizozza, the copyright holder of the original property, a novel.
FROM THE NOVEL:
Witchfinders are acting to foil a wicked plan to import IMPLODING mineral water into the united states!!! As the Witchfinders scare away bad parents they adopt as friends the mentally unbalanced children who were born without ss#s for, ie., slavery and human sacrifice.
They identify as witches the people who want to take back the octagon house in which the Witchfinders live..
© 1997 Cinema VII
For more information, email Peter Dizozza
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