About this project
About 617
In Boston, Massachusetts, the birthplace of America's only Revolution, a city that survived an 86-year curse, where the cobblestone out numbers its inhabitants and bartenders are the equivalent to rock-stars, six twenty-something's attempting to navigate life will share laughs, successes and the oft-frequent hangover. (All of which can be the result of an Irish Car-bomb.) With a little guidance from some recognizable locals, three friends from their childhood days in Quincy – Griffin, Scotty and Sully – and three friends from their formative/informative college years – Alana, Siobhan and Cat –will discover what life and love off the Red Line in the hub of New England has to offer.
Forget Whitey Bulger, bank-robbing Charlestown folk and those Southie
boys who like to beat up the Hahvard kids – this is the true story of
six individuals picked to live in a house off the Boston Harbor. (Ok, so
maybe not – but you get the point.)
What will the money be used for?
The twenty-five minute pilot episode for 617 is already shot and completed. We need to maintain production in the city of Boston with our crew of roughly twenty-five, our producers combined are six individuals, and our writers table is compromised of eight contributors. We are in pre-production to shoot the next two episodes and the money we raise will be used to pay for our crew, equipment rental, to feed everyone, marketing and maintaining the website. To view our pilot episode to see what 617 is all about go to www.617theseries.com.
Rewards offered:
Some of the rewards we are offering range from 617 t-shirt's, signed pilot script, a cameo in an episode, or getting to sit in at one of our writing sessions.
Thank you so much for your support!
Contributors:
Greenview Entertainment and Thompson Films
Created by: Katie Shannon and Amy DePaola
Produced by: Amy DePaola and Katie Shannon
Starring: Slaine, Patrick Driscoll, Nick Apostolides, Michael Underhill, Audrey Claire Johnson, Kris Sidberry, Gigi Raines
Contributors: Mike Madden Andria Chamberlain, Ben Heald, Rodrigo Orozco, Chris Davis, Matthew Valentinas, Michael Yebba, Ryan Dennet, Danielle Gassbarro
Other Links:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/617-The-Series/152775478117223
http://www.funnyordie.com/617theseries
http://www.youtube.com/user/617theseries?feature=mhee
http://617theseries.tumblr.com/
http://twitter.com/617theseries
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Katie Shannon-Creator
Katie had been involved in many aspects of filmmaking. Katie born in Massachusetts, graduated from Stonehill College in 2004 with a Bachelors Degree in Communications. Katie was also member of the 2003 women's lacrosse National Championship team. She then graduated from Emerson College in 2009 with her Master's degree in Visual Media Arts. Her thesis project, A Square With Three Sides (2009), has been an official selection in several film festivals such as Chicago's Reeling Film Festival, London's Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, and Santa Barbara's OUTrageous Film Festival. She is currently in development with three films with her production company Thompson Films.
Realizing that Boston is where she wanted to have her film career, she created the web series 617, which follows six late twenty something's as they try to navigate their lives through the city of Boston. She wrote and directed the pilot episode, which will be seen on 617theseries.com.
She is currently in pre-production for two feature films. The Things Stolen is a story of a family that lives so far in denial, that they don't even know what's the truth anymore. This family drama takes place in Hingham, Massachusetts and follows the struggles of one household when they try to handle the patriarch of the family infidelities. Her next film is a documentary series that will be following the new generation of players from the Stonehill Women's Lacrosse Team during their 2012 season for their quest at their own National Championship.
Her other feature film is A-Town which will be based in the year of 2000 in Agawam, Massachusetts, and will follow seniors in high school before they go their separate ways and venture off to college.
Amy DePaola - Executive and Supervising Producer
Amy has produced a number of projects within the film, new media, and fashion and theater industries. Following her graduation from Manhattan College where she received her B.A. in Communications and Media Studies Amy began her professional journey as a fashion publicist with Think Public Relations where she produced numerous runway shows for Hachette Filipacchi Media's STYLE360 during New York City Fashion Week. The realization that the world of fashion was not her calling and the desire to return to her childhood roots of acting led Amy to the New York Film Academy in 2008 where she received a degree in Acting for Film. Amy has worked as an actor and a producer in both New York and Boston. Prior to starting her own entertainment and development banner, Greenview Entertainment, in early 2011, Amy was employed as a Producer with WET Productions, a New York City based 501(c) 3 non-profit production company that was changing the way the world sees women and women see themselves by producing female generated material for the stage and screen.
Amy has worked with and employed many of the business's most talented individuals including Debra Messing, Blythe Danner, Carla Gugino, Ron Livingston, Carmen Electra, George "Slaine" Carroll, Rosemarie DeWitt, Jennifer Westfeldt and Ethan Embry to name a few. She has studied with Josh Pais and Kristen Johnston, The Atlantic Theater Company, The Moscow Art Theatre and The American Repertory Theater.
Amy recently launched her development company, Greenview Entertainment, which show ran the pilot and media venture 617 The Series and 617theseries.com. Greenview has also recently completed Michael Yebba's "Ordinary Man," which was shot in August of 2011 and stars Ethan Embry, Brian Scannell, Jay Giaonne, and Brian S. Goodman.
Amy also employs herself as a freelance writer and has been see on NEPost.com, DirtyWaterNews.com and StopBeingBoring.com as well as on her personal Blogs; "The Boston Bucket List" and "Stepping Bostone." Amy now resides in Boston's North End.
