Pioneer One
| Pioneer One | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Science fiction drama |
| Starring |
James Rich Alexandra Blatt Jack Haley Guy Wegener E. James Ford Laura Graham Laurence Cantor Einar Gunn |
| Country of origin | USA |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 6 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) |
Bracey Smith Josh Bernhard Ari Meisel |
| Producer(s) | Louis Meisel |
| Running time | 30–40 minutes |
| Distributor | Peer-to-peer via (2010–2011) (CC BY-NC-SA) |
| Release | |
| Picture format | 720p (2010–2011) |
| Original release | 2010 |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Pioneer One was a 2010 American web series produced by Josh Bernhard and Bracey Smith. It has been funded purely through donations (Crowdfunding), and is the first series created for and released on networks.
Pioneer One was a serialized drama produced and distributed online through VODO and the DISCO network. Downloaded more than 3,730,000 times since May 2012 and winner for Best Drama Pilot at the 2010 New York Television Festival, the show was independently produced and financed by viewer donations. The pilot episode was filmed on a budget of $6,000,raised in advance using Kickstarter. The series itself was released under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Creative Commons license and is distributed for free in collaboration with VODO, as with Bernhard's previous independent film The Lionshare, over the Internet including peer-to-peer networks. Six episodes were produced. Production of the rest of the season was funded through direct donations from the fanbase.
A mysterious spaceship enters Earth's atmosphere, triggering a massive response from the American government. Since the ship has spread radiation over hundreds of miles of rural Montana, officials are quick to bring up the possibility of a terrorist attack, specifically the detonation of a dirty bomb, however, that idea is discarded subtly by the leading investigator, asking the rhetorical question "Who would launch an attack on Montana?". Debris is found in Canada, where an investigation of the crash discovers a live human being in a Soviet space suit. Federal agents working for the American Department of Homeland Security get involved, receiving permission from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to operate in Canada. The man is in an unstable condition and his initial blood work shows signs of severe cancer, with his doctors proclaiming him too badly injured to transport. A note handwritten in Russian found at the crash site says that the man is the child of cosmonauts living at a base on Mars. Not believing the note and wanting to announce a Department of Homeland Security success to the press, the American DHS orders Agent Taylor to bring the man back to the United States as a suspected terrorist, despite his severe condition. Believing the note could be true, Taylor ignores his orders and destroys the permission from the RCMP, forcing his team to stay on site. He also brings in Dr. Walzer, an expert who has written several books about the possibility of human survival on Mars, to discuss the incident. At the end of the episode, a radio signal is heard and the screen display of a computer at Baikonur Cosmodrome is shown.
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