TORONTO and LOS ANGELES – Canadian producer and distributor Shaftesbury said Thursday that has sold four projects from its digital division Smokebomb Entertainment to U.S.-based over-the-top streaming service Hulu.
Those projects include dystopian 3D-enabled sci-fi motion novel State of Syn (eight x five minutes – pictured); provocative drama series Long Story, Short (11 x five minutes); tween adventure series Unlikely Heroes (eight x five minutes); and tween musical comedy series Totally Amp’d (10 x six minutes). All four series will roll out on Hulu over the next three months, starting with State of Syn on January 18 and Long Story, Short on February 15, 2014.
Smokebomb Entertainment has also been selected by San Francisco-based Mind Pirate and the Canadian Film Centre’s ideaBOOST to create a State of Syn app for Google Glass as part of an exclusive three-month boot camp that will give four winning developers including Smokebomb the resources to create games and apps for wearable technology devices. The State of Syn app will extend the digital series’ story world into Google Glass wearable technology, with an anticipated March 2014 launch.
“It’s always been Smokebomb's goal to create and produce content that can appear on any screen in any market, and our partnership with Hulu exemplifies this,” said Jay Bennett, Smokebomb’s vice president, digital and creative director, in the news release. “Not only is this an opportunity to expand the reach of our digital slate, it also allows us to bring the companion apps for these series to wider audiences, including working with Google Glass to extend storytelling to the next generation of technology.”
