Diggnation co-creator Alex Albrecht Announces Production Partnership with Scripped.com and IndieGoGo

June 29, 2010 - PRLog -- SAN FRANCISCO and LOS ANGELES, June 28, 2010 – Alex Albrecht, the co-creator of Diggnation and the Totally Rad Show announced a partnership to produce a screenplay (found on Scripped.com) and raise funds for the production using IndieGoGo.com.

This marks the first time ever that a film production will be based on a crowdsourced screenplay using crowdsourced funding. The shift toward community-based production over the past year was Albrecht’s inspiration behind the project:

"I've been really excited about the prospects of crowdsourcing for a number of years now." Albrecht said "After meeting Sunil at a UCLA business school panel we talked about crowdsourcing a sci-fi short film for me to direct.  It seemed like a no brainer, the Internet helped kick start my hosting career why not leverage the Internet to help kick start my directing career.  After running a very successful script contest Sunil mentioned that IndieGoGo was helping people crowdfund their projects and our project "Neverland" could be the first fully crowdsourced project start to finish.  I immediately signed on and I'm very excited to see what happens next."

"After successfully crowdsourcing the screenplay, we're excited to see Alex involve fans and raise money using IndieGoGo's collaborative funding tools," said Danae Ringelmann, COO of IndieGoGo.  "With lots of cool perks from which to choose, anyone can help Alex turn Lothrop's script into reality.  Just go to: http://www.IndieGoGo.com/Neverland."

"We are thrilled that Alex decided to move forward with the production of ‘Neverland’ (by Coy Lothrop) ," said Sunil Rajaraman, CEO, Scripped.  “Alex, and others are beginning to recognize that Scripped.com is becoming a destination to find quality content from up and coming writers."

About Alex Albrecht
Alex Albrecht started his rise to geek stardom after he landed the co-hosting role on TechTV's The Screen Savers.  It was at TechTV that he met Kevin Rose, and one of the most successful Internet television partnerships was born.  In 2004, Kevin and Alex decided to create a weekly podcast called Diggnation. The show went on to become one of the most popular running web series of all time. Regularly hosting live Diggnations to sold out as well as being two time guests on NBC's Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.  Alex also starred in Ctrl+Alt+Chicken, a weekly cooking show co-hosted with Heather Stewart.  Though production only lasted two seasons, CAC has become a cult classic and CAC shirts can be seen at all most every geek gathering.   In addition to creating Diggnation and Ctrl+Alt+Chicken, Alex teamed up with his two buds Dan and Jeff to create the raddest show on the net, The Totally Rad Show.  TRS is an eccentric mix of movie quotes and in depth and entertaining reviews and talk about some of the raddest, Movies, Video Games, Television Shows and Comics.

He also created Project Lore.com the place on the web for high quality World of Warcraft information and videos.  Albrecht has won two Streamy Awards,  winning the award for Best Web Host in 2008, and Best Hosted Web Series "Diggnation" in 2009.  Alex was also honored by the Producers Guild of America making The Digital 25: Visionaries, Innovators and Producers of 2009 list.  If all that wasn't enough Alex is in pre-production on a new web series with the BBC.

About IndieGoGo.com
IndieGoGo is a collaborative way to fund ideas. Founded on the principles of opportunity, transparency, choice, and action, IndieGoGo launched in 2008 to provide any idea (creative, cause or entrepreneurial) the tools and process to raise money, offer perks and keep 100% ownership. IndieGoGo is in over 120 countries with over 5,000 projects.

About Scripped
Founded in 2008, Scripped’s goal is to make screenwriting accessible to writers of all levels and provide the tools and community writers need to bring their ideas from inception to completion. Scripped aims to encourage and support the needs of all scripted content writers.

Scripped Inc. promotes the art of screenwriting by providing Scripped Writer, the first completely free web-based screenwriting software for writers.  Scripped Writer is an innovative text editor that functions like a standard word processor but automatically formats and catalogs each screenplay element according to industry standards.

Since its launch in January 2008, Scripped Writer has amassed a user-base of more than 65,000 writers from all 50 states and more than 50 countries and adds a new screenwriter to its userbase every 20 minutes. In March of 2010, Scripped merged with Zhura.com, nearly doubling its userbase and adding additional functionality. To try Scripped Writer, http://www.scripped.com. For additional corporate info and biographical information on the management team, please email us directly at contact@scripped.com.

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Scripped is the leading provider of web-based screenwriting software on the Internet. With nearly 70,000 users, Scripped grows its membership by 50-100 writers/day. Scripped also finds content for producers of films, ads, plays, and other content.