The Hunted: Encore - Season 2
Swords, Songs & Slayers collide in this Musical Action Comedy that pits Megan and her team of vampire hunters against a sinister bloodsucking syndicate. It's been a year since Season 1 and the vamps wield more power than ever. Vampires John & Adam are viral sensations with their super popular vlog & have called in the rocker mercenaries, The Queens of The Damned, to finish the Encore team once and for all. The Queens, however, don't want just Megan's blood – they want HER. Meanwhile, the Slayers can't seem to get anything done. Fearing they might be in over their heads, Bob from The Hunted LA (the longest running series on the net) comes to NYC to whip the slayers into shape and take on these rockstar assassins.
Full season and more information at www.thehuntedencore.com
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Crystal ArnetteDirectorUnicornland, Polaroid Girl, co-founder of SEQUIN
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Ned DonovanWriterThe Hunted: Encore - Season 1
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Joe PietropaoloWriter
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Charging Moose MediaProducerAt The Table: A Play Reading Series (Podcast), Give My Regards to Broadway: Classic Showtunes Reimagined (Album)
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Ned DonovanProducerThe Hunted: Encore, Desolation
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Megan DornKey CastThe Hunted: Encore
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Ned DonovanKey CastNight of the Living Deb
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Andrew MayerKey CastBroadway: Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812
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John Steven GardnerKey CastBand: Common Jack, Broadway: Once - The Musical
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Robert ChapinKey CastRing of Steel, The Hunted
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Liz DamuthKey Cast
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Marcus Thorne BagalaMusicThis American Life, The Affair, Fathers of Football
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Preston Max AllenMusicStage: We Are The Tigers (LA Ovation Award), The Rage: Carrie 2 an Unauthorized Musical
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Megan BagalaMusicWhiskey and Wine
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Garrett KafchinskiProductionShade: Queens of NYC, Renee Fleming: Christmas in New York
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Robert ChapinProductionVFX: Star Wars: The Force Awakens, American Beauty, The Walking Dead
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Project Type:Music Video, Web / New Media
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Genres:Musical, Action, Comedy, Mockumentary
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Runtime:46 minutes 58 seconds
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Completion Date:October 31, 2017
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Production Budget:15,000 USD
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Country of Origin:United States
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Country of Filming:United States
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Language:English
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Shooting Format:Digital
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Aspect Ratio:16:9
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:No
Crystal Arnette is the co-founder of non-profit arts initiative SEQUIN & the founder of the production collective Adventure We Can. Along with The Bats, she co-created SERIALS @ The Flea in 2010 and served as co-creative producer from 2014-16. She has created & directed video content for The Flea, Ars Nova, NYTW, Ensemble Studio Theatre, ECM Records, Atlantic Theater Co, The New Group, Playwrights Horizons, Shantell Martin, Geometry Global, Reuters, HSBC, Unilever, The Make It Fair Project + many more. Crystal was a member of The Bats, the acclaimed resident acting company at The Flea for 6 seasons. She has also performed with The Bushwick Starr, Atlantic Theater Co, Woolly Mammoth, W.H.A.T, The P.I.T., and Webster Hall. Crystal stars in the features What We've Become & You Can't Kill Stephen King; the award-winning shorts Polaroid Girl and Requited; and can currently be seen in the hit web seres Unicornland. She has worked on campaigns & films with Olson, Droga5, Radical Media, Sony/RCA Records, M ss ng P eces, Supply & Demand, Carousel-NYC, Film Orange & Mass Appeal. She is a BFA graduate of the School of Drama at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
I often work at the crossroads of Film and Theatre, so on The Hunted: Encore S2 I was able to amplify the creativity of theatrical staging & practical effects in our handheld camera scenes, and bring our full arsenal of filmmaking into the musical numbers. We created 8 distinct music videos for each of the songs in the season – which are the driving force of the series. As a musician myself, I allowed the songs to really inform what each episode should look, move, and feel like. With only 4 days of principal photography, we worked fast & fearless and this team brought the season to life magically. I love how The Hunted: Encore subverts expectation, in which musical-comedy performers, who are also highly skilled filmmakers, fight with swords exceptionally well. As a queer cis-female director making an action-comedy series, I'm definitely excited to bring a new voice to the genre.