Guidestones (web series)
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The Guidestones symbol
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| Genre | Thriller |
| Created by | Jay Ferguson |
| Written by | Jay Ferguson Jeremy Diamond |
| Directed by | Jay Ferguson |
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| Composer(s) | Alex Khaskin |
| Country of origin | Canada |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 50 (push version) 34 (CTV/Hulu version) |
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada Buffalo, New York Atlanta, Georgia Delhi, India |
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| Running time | 2-5 minutes (per episode) |
| Production company(s) | Jonas Diamond Jay Ferguson Lisa Baylin Catherine Tait |
| Release | |
| Original release | February 14, 2012 |
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Guidestones is a Canadian award-winning thriller web series created by Jay Ferguson. It premiered in February 2012, distributed via email subscription as a real-time, interactive mystery series. In June 2012, the series launched a linear, on-demand version. The episodes are also available through CTV, a Facebook application and Hulu.
Season Two is currently in post-production, and will debut in 2014.
Season One follows Sandy Rai (Supinder Wraich), who is living in Canada on exchange from India, and Trevor Shale (Dan Fox), a fellow Ryerson University School of Journalism student, as they become embroiled in the mystery of the Georgia Guidestones. An unsolved murder starts them on a search for the truth, which leads them to the mysterious monument in rural Georgia. Sandy and Trevor begin to realize that the conspiracy they are unraveling may have apocalyptic repercussions.
Season One was shot on location in Canada, the United States, and India on a budget of $300,000.
The series was produced by 3‘oclock.tv and iThentic in association with the Independent Production Fund (IPF) and the Ontario Media Development Corporation (OMDC), and with help from corporate and organizational sponsors, including Pizza Pizza, Coca-Cola, Samsung, Toronto Blue Jays, Major League Baseball, Karbon, and William F. White International.
On 18 June 2012, the Independent Production Fund announced funding approval for a second season.
Guidestones - Season One was created in two versions: the first, a 50-episode “push” version, was launched online in February 2012 at and asked viewers to enter their email address in order to receive episodes in ‘real-time’, so that they could experience the events of the series in the same time frame as the characters. The "push" version could also be experienced on Facebook through an official Guidestones application.
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