Kicking off tonight at the TCL Chinese 6 Theaters in Hollywood, the 18th annual Screamfest Horror Film Festival is chock-full of world premiere screenings, including the premiere episode of the new Gemr series, Collection Complete. Co-created by Sean Decker and Carlee Baker, Collection Complete highlights the beloved and inspirational pop culture collections of a wide range of artists and filmmakers, including Mike Mendez and Robert Meyer Burnett. The first seven episodes of Collection Complete will be screened at Screamfest (before playing every Tuesday at 8:00pm EST on Gemre.com) and we have official details on the series ahead of its premiere screening tonight:
Press Release: "LOS ANGELES, CA (OCTOBER 4, 2018) – Nashua, New Hampshire-based company Gemr, Inc. has announced that the World Premiere of their original docuseries ‘Collection Complete’ will be held at the venerated Screamfest Film Festival (running October 9-18) in Hollywood, CA, before premiering on their own platform at www.Gemr.com.
Conceived of by co-creators Sean Decker and Carlee Baker, ‘Collection Complete’ takes an in-depth look into the lives of filmmakers and artists and the collections that fuel their work, from screen-used props to action figures and beyond. Ema Hutchins and Arielle Brachfeld produce, with Gemr CEO Tom Bennett serving as executive producer.
Delivered in blocks of 3-5 minute segments, the series’ first two subjects are comprised of Big Ass Spider!/Tales of Halloween filmmaker Mike Mendez, and The Hills Run Red producer and Free Enterprise director Robert Meyer Burnett, who each take viewers on an intimate tour through their own personal collections as they discuss their lives and art, and the influence on both by their respective collections.
Says Bennett of the series, which serves to also celebrate online community and marketplace Gemr (a platform for collectors worldwide to display, discuss, buy and sell the pop culture objects of their fascination), “Collection Complete does what every collector on Gemr loves us for; it celebrates the collector and collecting culture. It’s amazing how many collectors have kept their obsessions under wraps out of a fear of being misunderstood. This series celebrates pop culture from the perspective of its most dedicated fans and shows how cool it really is to be a collector.”
He added of the fast-growing Gemr, which currently has over 375,000 members and climbing, “The goal really is to create the ultimate community platform for collectors, brands and influencers. Traditional social channels are full of noise, lacking in collector specific features and are taking an ‘all things to all people’ approach, which ends up diluting the experience. We’re built from the ground up to solve problems for collectors, influencers and the brands that they know and love.”
Of his experience filming the series, guest Mendez added, “It was a lot of fun to share a side of me I don’t talk about very much. I’m a hardcore collector, and you never know how people will react to the depths of obsession that I swim in. But I knew I was in good hands with the production team, so I felt safe to let my freak flag fly.”
Burnett also effused, “As an imagination connoisseur, a great action figure represents a character conceived by a writer, designed by an artist, performed by an actor and directed by an auteur. One day, I hope a kid somewhere owns a figure of a character I had a hand in creating, inspiring them to continue the cycle.”
Producer Baker said of future plans for ‘Collection Complete,’ “With so many fascinating collectors and collections and the richness of stories that surround them, I think that the sky is truly the limit for this series.”
ABOUT GEMR
Gemr is a social community and online marketplace (think Facebook meets Ebay) for people who love collecting. Launched in 2015, Gemr provides collectors with all the tools they need to easily pursue their collecting passion online. From antiques to vintage and pop-culture collectibles, Gemr is the premiere platform for collectors to share what they love. Visit Gemr at Gemr.com
Raised on a steady diet of R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps books and Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Derek has been fascinated with fear since he first saw ForeverWare being used on an episode of Eerie, Indiana.
When he’s not writing about horror as the Senior News Reporter for Daily Dead, Derek can be found daydreaming about the Santa Carla Boardwalk from The Lost Boys or reading Stephen King and Brian Keene novels.
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