Although we’ve been relatively quiet on posts this year, it’s not to say that we haven’t been busy.  After several months we have finally completed work on a feature length screenplay of Jordan and Bear, and have submitted it to the Canadian Film Centre in hopes of attaining funding. Needless to say,the feature isn’t a rehash of the serial but something that truly expands on everything that made Jordan and Bear so special.  Let’s all hope for the best.

In the spirit of this news, please enjoy the amazing physical prowess of the kung-fu bear.

Oh well, I guess the Streamys felt that such a popular and star-studded webseries like Jordan and Bear wouldn’t benefit from a nomination.  I guess it’s better to shed some exposure on lesser known talent.  I mean, who the fuck is this Zach Galifinakis guy?  Next thing you know they’ll be giving awards to shutins like Joss Whedon.

Uhhhh.  Fuck me.

http://www.streamys.org/winners/2010-nominees/

Just to let everyone know that Jordan and Bear will be screening in FULL at this years Film Pop festival here in Montreal. Here’s how Film Pop describes the venue.

Film Pop presents an installation featuring music videos and local shorts that you can play at will. The headphone cords will be long enough for two person dance parties! Videos will include Local Montrealer Andrew Lima’s ‘Jordan and Bear’ about a man and his best friend (a giant black bear) and their unlawful attempts to fulfill Jordan’s dream of going to the Dominican Republic, Tim Kelly’s portraits of local Montreal Artists Beaver Shepard and Zsofia Zambo, and Torontonian Wade Vroom’s ‘Novels,’ which takes you inside a 24 hour recording session between five of Canada’s top young musicians, including Luke Lalonde of The Born Ruffians.

La Place Ubisoft: L’Espace Reunion, 30 Sept – 4 Oct.

Yeah they don’t mention Nick and Chris, but I consider it Karma for getting snubbed in all of our other write ups. If you want to know more about Film Pop click here

Yeah, so that review is the first thing we’ve posted in over 2 months. You all might be wondering what we’ve been up to. Wait, does anyone still check this site out? If not, we only have outselves to blame. In the next month expect an overhaul of the short film section to include a few older projects, some more reviews, and a brand new project to premiere very shortly! (Thats what we’ve been up to, mostly).

So stay tuned, you 3 people.

We’d like to take this opportunity to thank the blogs that have recently shown us some love. It’s encouraging to hear back from people, especially when they themselves have some wonderful sites:

Thanks to Danny Zabbal who works on the web-comic Journey in the 6th Dimension. He has some tremendous, eye-popping artwork with a real cinematic flair. And we’re clearly simpatico thematically. His Flickr stream can be found here.

Thanks to Dan Beirne who contributes to Said the Gramophone, a blog that very lovingly posts sample MP3s. Beirne describes J&B as “Elizabeth Cotten in a bear costume”. Sounds like tag-line material to me. And be sure to check out Dan’s improvised serial-sitcom The Bitter End.

And lastly thanks to Bernardo González Reinfeld. I can’t pretend that I understand Spanish, but google assures me that he likes J&B: “the series is wonderful [...] I’m not very knowledgeable Canadian humor, but this is a total absurdity”. As it turns out Bernardo, we aren’t all that knowledgeable in Canadian humor either! Thanks for thoughtful review, we really appreciate it.

JORDAN&BEAR

THE WAIT IS OVER. JORDAN & BEAR HAS RETURNED. GO WATCH IT RIGHT NOW!!!!!!

Our faithful viewers probably noticed the lack of updates this past week. We’re all hard at work preparing the second half of the serial which will resume this Thursday, May 7th. Fret not however because the second half of J&B is EVEN MORE AUDACIOUS, with MORE LAUGHS, ACTION AND EXCITEMENT, as well as a few SURPRISES along the way. Stay tuned!

For those of you that are enjoying ‘JORDAN&BEAR’ we ask you to consider voting for us on social bookmarking websites. We currently have entries on Digg and Reddit (thanks to our intrepid viewers Ben Drevniok & Ben Dugas!) Registration literally takes 2 seconds. And Bear would really appreciate it…

Links can be found here and here.