In days of old, life lessons were taught through legends and lore. Stories and songs told of mighty powers of day and night and the dim dusk between them. Please join us as Runic Films endeavors to uphold these traditions of old by utilizing the tools of the new. "Blood and Fire" Wins TrekMovie’s Best of Year January 4, 2010 Project: Star Trek: Phase II TrekMovie.com, the leading Star Trek news site, has awarded the Star Trek: Phase II episode "Blood and Fire: Part 2" the Best Fan Production of 2009! Congratulations to James Cawley and all entire Phase II staff. Runic Films' Carlos Pedraza co-wrote the teleplay with noted science fiction author David Gerrold (“The Trouble with Tribbles”). Gerrold directed the episode with other Runic members David Berry, cinematographer, Joël Bellucci, visual effects supervisor, and Ben Alpi, second unit director. "Blood and Fire" is based on a script Gerrold wrote for Star Trek: The Next Generation but was never produced because producers deemed it too controversial. more Zerks Gets Kold! November 12, 2009 Project: Zerks Log Watch Zerks Log Season 1 now on Koldcast.tv! Runic Films to Produce Scifi Adventure Series for Kids August 5, 2009 Project: eScape Web Series LOS ANGELES — The creative teams behind the award-winning Web series Star Trek: Phase II and eScape have joined forces to produce a new science fiction-adventure series aimed at tweens and teens. eScape, a reimagining of a series created by MovieQuest Productions, will tell the story of a group of kids who wake up to find all the adults at their summer camp have disappeared. They soon discover they are trapped in a video game that grants them amazing abilities. But in the real world, this game is the object of a power struggle between powerful corporations and mysterious military interests. more DoorQ Reporting from Comic-Con 2009 July 22, 2009 Project: Fandom Runic Film's writer-producer Carlos Pedraza as well as DoorQ.com founder Jody Wheeler will be reporting from the floor of the San Diego Comic-Con with continueing real-time coverage. Keep up-to-the-moment: http://doorq.com Runic Films Creative Team to Attend Comic-Con July 19, 2009 Project: Web Series LOS ANGELES — The principal creative team of Runic Films, veterans of the Web series Star Trek: Phase II and Zerks Log, will attend Comic-Con 2009 in San Diego, July 22-26. Producer-director Ben Alpi, cinematographer David Berry, visual effects artist Matt Jolly and writer-producer Carlos Pedraza will be at the country's leading comics and popular arts convention, which is celebrating its 40th year. more James Cawley, Ben Alpi and Star Trek: Phase II Featured June 11, 2009 Project: Fan Films & Web Series A great article by writer Eric Trautmann about all things fan film and beyond. Features Phase II with great interviews with Runic's Ben Alpi and PII Executive Producer James Cawley. http://paralleluniverse.msn.com/features/movies/the-observatory "I met Eric about fifteen years ago at our small town comic book shop," says Ben. "He was writing modules for the original Star Wars tabletop RPG from West End Games which totally blew my mind. To connect with him after all these years and compare notes again was a real treat." Visit The Observatory on MSN for more of Eric's goodness (Zerks even gets a nod!) He let us know that he'll be posting an extended version of this article, which will include a Carlos Pedraza interview, on Eric-Trautmann.com. So stay tuned! Carlos Pedraza Podcast Interview May 26, 2009 Project: Fan Films & Web Series Carlos guested at BayCon 2009 (his third year) near San Francisco. The producers of the Fanboy Planet podcast asked him to appear on their live-on-tape broadcast. He went wacky. You can listen to the 75-min. podcast here (MP3) and check out the Fanboy Planet Web site and their podcast page. Carlos talks about Star Trek: Phase II, "Blood and Fire," comics, Terminator Salvation and the new Star Trek movie. He also defeats audience members who try to stump him on Trek trivia! Ben Alpi Podcast Interview May 21, 2009 Project: Web Series The Everything Film Show interviews Ben on live on Blogtalk Radio.  You can listen online or download (for better quality) right here: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/TEFS. Ben talks Zerks Log, Runic Films, Web series, Star Trek: Phase II and eScape.  With special appearances by Captain Zerks and a surprise 'guest'! more Carlos Pedraza Interview May 21, 2009 Project: Fan Films & Web Series Carlos recently sat down with futurist Erik Schmidt to talk fan films and the future of Web series. Check out the multi-part interview! Fan Film - The Carlos Pedraza Interview, Pt. 1 Fan Film - The Carlos Pedraza Interview, Pt. 2 Fan Film - The Carlos Pedraza Interview, Pt. 3 Zerks & Creating Your First Web Series May 18, 2009 Project: Zerks Log Here is another great article on the show: Script Magazine: Creating Your First Web Series: Zerks Log Watch Zerks Log online now! Also available on iTunes. >>News Archive