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Longtime YouTuber Jesse Ridgway (aka McJuggerNuggets) and his business partner Brian Spitz are selling their creative platform StoryFire as an Nft. Ridgway and Spitz founded StoryFire in 2017, and conceptualized it as a kind of YouTube–Twitter–Wattpad hybrid where fans could use its onsite currency, Blaze, to pay creators for posting original videos, stories, and even […]

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Move over, consequences -- a new form of collaborative storytelling has arrived, and it is receiving plenty of attention on the App Store. Storyfire, co-founded by Jesse Ridgeway of McJuggerNuggets fame and Brian Spitz, has launched on the App Store as a new way for writers to tell stories together.

Storyfire, as Spitz and Ridgeway tell it, was inspired by fan participation on the McJuggerNuggets channel, where Ridgeway told the (fictional) story of an insane family that yelled a lot and occasionally resorted to extreme violence. When Spitz directed the documentary Psycho Family, which discussed the unique nature of Ridgeway’s channel, he made an observation about the relationship between the YouTube star and his fans. “The ‘Juggies’ were super involved with Jesse’s daily series, commenting with awesome ideas for new characters and unique storylines they wanted to see come to life in future episodes,” reads a page on the Storyfire website.

This Morning isn't one to shy away from any topic, big or small, so it's no surprise that yesterday's (October 23) programme tackled the issue of penis size.

Actor Patrick Moote was on the show to talk about his documentary UnHung Hero, after an unfortunate incident with an ex-girlfriend.

Three years ago he proposed to his lover at a basketball game in front of hundreds of people, but she turned him down.

When he asked her why, she said that his penis was too small for her.

"I told my friend Brian Spitz, who directed the film, what she had said and that started a conversation between us about what it was really about," he explained.

"Does it matter? Is it important? What is average? What is a reasonable expectation as a man and what isn't?"

Even though Moote says the film helped him deal with his insecurities, he still believes that size does matter.

Based on its title, you might not realize that Unhung Hero (available on DVD today) is a documentary. You might think that it's a hokey comedy about a dude with a small dick. And in that case, you're half right – Patrick Moote suffered one of life's greatest embarrassments when his marriage proposal was rejected and the video went viral. Then came the reason: his girlfriend rejected him because of his miniscule penis. Rather than suffer the fate of the Gods, Moote linked up with documentarian Brian Spitz to find out if,...

While most documentaries tend to take the serious route when chronicling important events, subjects, controversies and more, director Brian Spitz decided to turn his lens towards another story, but not necessarily a soft one. Patrick Moote went viral in the worst way possible. He proposed to his girlfriend on a jumbotron at a UCLA basketball game and the video went viral, hitting TV stations everywhere. Apparently one of the reasons was because he has a small penis. And so, Moote sets out in a documentary called Unhung Hero to determine whether or not the size of the male member really matters. Watch now! Here's the trailer for Brian Spitz's Unhung Hero, originally from Breaking Glass Pictures (via Film Stage): When Patrick Moote's girlfriend rejects his marriage proposal at a UCLA basketball game on the jumbotron, it goes viral. Days after she privately reveals why: Patrick’s small penis size.

DVD Release Date: Nov. 26, 2013

Price: DVD $17.99

Studio: Breaking Glass

Patrick Moote (ctr.) stretches to extreme lengths to compensate for his shortcomings in UnHung Hero.

Described in its press release as “the world’s first “cockumentary,” the 2013 documentary film UnHung Hero follows a young man as he sets off on a quest to learn more about that most vital, fascinating and arguably enigmatic of male appendages.

Said young man is one Patrick Moote, whose marriage proposal is rejected before an arena full of people—and millions of YouTube viewers—along with his ex tells him that his equipment is too small to satisfy her. This sets him off to get to the root of his biggest—and smallest—problem. The film features Moote’s worldwide travels to find answers, his experiments with ‘enlargement methods’ such as pumps, pills and a stretching technique called ‘jelqing,’ and interviews with such notables as porn...

Documentary about whether “size matters” proved a hit at SXSW.

Breaking Glass Pictures has struck a North American deal in Toronto to distribute Brian Spitz’s SXSW documentary hit Unhung Hero.

Breaking Glass CEO Rich Wolff brokered the deal with Film Sales Company president Andrew Herwitz and sales director Jason Ishikawa.

Unsung Hero charts a humiliated man’s fact-finding journey as he consults porn stars, doctors and anthropologists to learn whether the size of one’s manhood matters.

The film will get a limited theatrical release this autumn followed by nationwide DVD and VOD release.

Thomas Brettschneider and Lynn Shmitz of greenskyFILMS produced.

The 7th annual Sydney Underground Film Festival, which runs this year on September 5-8 at the Factory Theatre, opens with a real bang when they will screen cult filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky’s latest cinematic odyssey, The Dance of Reality. This is Jodorowsky’s first film in over twenty years and is an imaginative and playful quasi-autobiography.

The rest of the four-day celebration is packed with more film oddities and excursions into surreal and transgressive territory. One particular highlight that is not to be missed is Don Swaynos’ incredibly crowd-pleasing comedy Pictures of Superheroes, about a slacker cleaning woman’s descent into an absurd world she can’t escape. Read the Underground Film Journal’s review of Pictures of Superheroes here.

Other twisted fiction films screening include Drew Tobias’s sick and twisted See You Next Tuesday, Cody Calahan’s apocalyptic Antisocial and Lloyd Kaufman’s highly-anticipated sequel Return to Nuke ‘Em High: Vol.

My first day of SXSW 2013 began Friday afternoon with a preview of the Mondo Gallery exhibition of original Game of Thrones artwork (pictured at right) sponsored by HBO, which also included samples of the new Brewery Ommegang's new "Game of Thrones" beer. Look for Katy Daiger Dial's coverage of the exhibit, with more photos, later in the week on Slackerwood.

Although I had planned to catch opening-night movie The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, I decided at the last minute to skip it in favor of a documentary at the Topfer Theatre that I wouldn't have another chance to see, Unhung Hero.

Directed by Brian Spitz, it follows actor Patrick Moote through his rejected Jumbotron marriage proposal that garnered 10 million YouTube hits in four days ... and the subsequent journey he undertakes after being told by his ex-girlfriend that her rejection was due to his extremely small penis.

In spite of his shortcomings,...

South by Southwest (SXSW) is just one of many film festivals, we here at Sound On Sight cover yearly. The fest, which takes place every spring in Austin, Texas, began in 1987, and has continued to grow in size every year. The fest announced the first wave of films back in early January, and the lineup included some highly anticipated films such as The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, Evil Dead, Downloaded and Spring Breakers. Now the full lineup has been announced, and it just might be one of the best lineups the festival has ever programmed.

SXSW takes place March 8-16 in Austin Texas. Here are just some of the films we are excited about.

Narrative Feature Competition – This year’s 8 films were selected from 1,191 submissions. Each film is a World Premiere.

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Director/Screenwriter: Todd Sklar, Screenwriter: Alex Rennie

Estranged brothers Jim and Dave must travel to Branson together when...

Some of the best films of the 2012/2013 calender year from Richard Linklater, Harmony Korine, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Andrew Bujalski, Jeff Nichols, David Gordon Green, Shane Carruth and Joshua Oppenheimer are among the headliner names for the 2013 edition of the South by Southwest Film Festival. With a little over 100 plus film line-up (a whopping 2000+ titles were submitted), almost 70 are world premieres: there is the highly anticipated sophomore film (that has been on our radar since it first went into production) with M. Blash’s (The Wait), Joe Swanberg who makes SXSW his second home will premiere Drinking Buddies, veteran indie filmmaker John Sayles saddles in with Go For Sisters, and rounding out the Narrative Spotlight section we’ve got The Bounceback from Bryan Poyser, Loves Her Gun from Geoff Marslett along with titles we thought might break into Park City, but found an Austin home instead with Jacob Vaughan’s Milo and...

Do you wish you could hang on to your adolescence forever? Is Peter Pan one of your favorite childhood stories? Maybe you should rethink your goals. Yesterday marked the debut of KoldCast TV's latest comedy web series, Man-Teen, created by Andy Lazarus, Tony Jones, and Brian Spitz of Take A Bucket Entertainment. The series, featuring Devon Gummersall (My So-Called Life) and Mimi Kennedy (Dharma & Greg), follows the misadventures of a 35-year-old "teenager" as he battles the conventions of modern society.