2010 is off to amazing start.

Last month I had an opportunity to attend the Sundance Screenwriters Lab. My newest project HiM was one of 12 projects selected out of over 2,000. It was an honor to attend and my co-writer Chuck Wendig and I had an wonderful experience. It marked the first time that the Lab has supported a feature film / transmedia project. In addition to focusing on the script we also had a chance to discuss various parts of the storyworld that we’re constructing around the project.

In addition to developing a new feature film, I’m also hard at work on a new TV series. We’re currently writing the pilot for a large network and if all goes well – we’ll hopefully be stepping behind the camera later this year to shoot the pilot. It’s an exciting project that we’ve been developing for the last two and half years and I’m chomping at the bit to share more details.

While in Park City I had an opportunity to speak at Sundance and Slamdance. At Sundance I spoke on a panel entitled The Doctors Are in the House. The WorkBook Project, Slamdance and the Open Video Alliance combined efforts to produce The Filmmaker Summit which brought a number of innovative minds together from 5 different countries to talk about the future of film. I hosted the day and helped to pull together the programming for the whole event. Over 1,500 people tuned into the live stream and the event was projected live at USC and Columbia in addition to a number of other schools in the US and Europe.

Last week I was at the Berlin International Film Festival where I took part in the Talent Campus. I gave three talks on the subject of transmedia and had a chance to unveil parts of a mobile app that we’ve been working on. I’ll be writing about the app and geolocational services and their potential for storytelling in the Spring issue of Filmmaker Magazine which hits newstands in a few months.

DIY DAYS comes to NYC on April 3rd. If you happen to be in the New York area we’re holding a DIY DAYS event at the New School. This marks the 7th DIY DAYS event. We’ve held them in LA, San Francisco, Boston, NYC and Philadelphia. The conference is free and we have an exciting schedule planned with over 25 speakers and more than 20 different talks, workshops and presentations. We’ll also be testing out a new incubator format – more details soon http://diydays.com

A few weeks ago I received a mention in an article entitled “Talking About a Revolution (for a Digital Age)”

“Game changers like Lance Weiler, a D.I.Y. visionary whose 1998 mock documentary “The Last Broadcast,” directed with Stefan Avalos, was the first movie released in theaters digitally, understand that younger audiences can’t be reached the way that their Fellini-loving grandparents once were. Younger audiences might not be more active moviegoers than their grandparents (watching a film is never a passive experience), but they live in an interactive, media-saturated world. These days “everyone is his or her own media company,” Mr. Weiler wrote in Filmmaker Magazine. “With the push of a button they can publish, shoot or record and moments later it can be online for the world to see.” This audience, in other words, has its own D.I.Y. ethos, and sometimes can be part of a movie’s creative process. The major studios certainly are paying attention to what Mr. Weiler and other do-it-yourselfers have to say.” – NEW YORK TIMES

Meanwhile we’ve been producing the third season of RADAR a mobile / online series about storytelling and creativity. In 2009 we produced 24 episodes in addition to staging some offline RADAR experiences that brought the series to life. This year will be doing more offline experiences and we’re currently developing a 4th season of RADAR in addition to two other projects that are running through WBP LABS.