Ben Croll Just a half-decade ago, talk of web-series – both as a medium and as a standalone industry – fell on deaf ears in certain major media markets.
And so the task fell to a handful of evangelists to go out and bang the drum.“We believe in short content and our mission is to convince others that it is the future,” says producer Anton Kalinkin, founder of Russia’s Red Carpet Studio. “But five years ago, we were the first to talk about it in Russia.
Back then no one even knew what it was. Every time we had to literally explain in very simple language what we mean when we talk about a web series.”Kalinkin opted to lead by example, setting-up the Nizhny Novgorod-set Realist Web Fest in 2018 as a way to popularize the concept. “Our goal.
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