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---PLEASE CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE CONCEPT TRAILER----
In a parellel universe, the terrain of online poker is dominated by legions of young girls sitting in front of their computers. This is a story of four such "grinders" who spend all day on the internet scratching out a living by clicking buttons. They read forums. They get memes. And most important of all, they enjoy the personal freedom that their unique profession affords them. Their fast lives become a blur of degeneracy, booze, sex and the digital world.
However, "living the dream" has its downsides. The girls must deal with the mental anguish of losing large sums of money on a regular basis. Furthermore, the poker economy is shrinking and the games are getting tougher by the minute. Also, the necessity to stay in front of their computers for extended periods of time have degraded the girls' ability to function properly in a normal social atmosphere. Even their abundance of money and free time has not come with a sense of personal satisfaction and fulfilment.
This show will explore themes of personal identity, living a worthwhile life, the desire to be the best in the world, the uncertainty of the future, the nature of gambling and the effect that heavy interaction with the digital world has on real life personal relationships... all in a lighthearted, not-taking-one's-self-too-seriously fashion.
From the director of the documentary A Kid's Game: The Story of Online Poker comes a proposal for a new webseries about four girls just trying to make it the best they can in a world that is becoming increasingly uncertain, fragmented and digitized. I hope the final product will have a look similar to Arrested Development/Modern Family/It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
IMPORTANT NOTE: The concept trailer shown above is just to give a general sense of what the show will be like in terms of its tone/mood. None of the girls are professional actresses and none will be involved with the proposed production. The 15 minute pilot episode will be re-cast and re-shot in Montreal when I move there in May. After it's aired, I will start another kickstarter project to fund 5 further episodes, thus completing the show's first "season."
Thanks for your consideration,
Li.
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Li Dong has been playing online poker professionally for 5 years now and can actually feel himself getting worser at it with each passing millisecond. That means that today, right now, as you're reading this, he's playing the absolute worst poker of his entire life. In anticipation of the day when rakeback will no longer exist (and thusly seal his inescapable demise), Li has begun to pursue other avenues of moneymaking that require just as little motivation or drive to accomplish as his previous "career" did.
He made the online poker documentary "A Kid's Game: The Story of Online Poker", and is currently working on several other moving-picture projects on the days that he magically winds up in that highly productive mental state known as "sobriety."
You can email him at li@dongsworld.com
