Urban Wolf

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Urban Wolf
Genre Science fiction Thriller
Created by Laurent Touil-Tartour
Directed by Laurent Touil-Tartour
Starring Vincent Sze
Composer Thierry Caroubi
Country of originFrance
United States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes15
Production
Executive producerNapoleon Premiere
Producer Laurent Touil-Tartour
Production locationParis
Camera setup Yves Dahan
Running time58 mn
Original release
Network Apple, Crackle
ReleaseMay 13, 2010 (2010-05-13) on Sony's www.crackle.com

Urban Wolf is an online non-verbal drama series, with 15 webisodes of 4 minutes long each.

Contents

The movie was written, produced and directed by Laurent Touil-Tartour. [1]

The world premiere and first public screening of the show took place at Comic-Con 2009, in San Diego.

In 2009, at the 4th Annual Los Angeles Independent Television Festival Urban Wolf won the Award for Best Drama. [2] And in 2011, during the 15th Annual Webby Awards Urban Wolf won the People's Voice Award for Best Drama. [3] It also has been selected for the 2009 AFI DigiFest by the American Film Institute as "one of the most compelling example of new media storytelling". [4]

On March 31, 2010, Sony Pictures Entertainment officially announces a groundbreaking worldwide distribution deal for the series. [5] The show premiered on Sony Pictures Entertainment owned Crackle on May 13, 2010. [6] Then Sony Pictures syndicated the series in a multi-platform footprint including: YouTube, hulu, the PlayStation Network, Google TV, the Bravia Network, Animax, AXN, AT&T, Sprint, etc.

Plot

Season 1 (2009)

The plot focuses mainly on an American tourist freshly landed at Paris airport in France who is pursued and terrorized by a malevolent security camera operator.

Awards and nominations

Awards

Nominations

Honorees

Reception

The series has received overwhelmingly enthusiastic critical reception. Journalist and critic Hugh Hart, writing for Wired Magazine noted: "Laurent Touil-Tartour exploits sharp edits, a driving score and spare cinematography to extract maximum tension and an handsomely filmed suspense drama.” [11] Hugh Hart also enjoyed the usage of non-verbal storytelling: "Not a word gets spoken in Urban Wolf. But even without dialogue, French filmmaker Laurent Touil-Tartour has made an unusually sophisticated spy-tech thriller.” [11]

Critic Jandy Stone Hardesty, in her review for Row Three, said that Touil-Tartour has “a nice flair for composition and a good sense of visual storytelling, he also knows how to do good twists and suggest things rather than spell them out, something I really appreciated.” [12] William Bibbiani, in CraveOnline , called it "an exciting little bit of filmmaking that deserves its notoriety and is worth howling about”, [13] and Liz Shannon Miller writing in GigaOM wrote that "“Urban Wolf is a gripping thriller that stands out as proudly unique. Some of Wolf‘s execution might emulate classic 1970s thrillers, but the concept is pure 21st century, playing nimbly with issues of privacy and paranoia. When a director can make even the eating of a potato chip seem malevolent (as occurs in the yet-to-premiere episode 7), you know you’ve watching something special.” [14]

Reviewing it for the Mingle Media TV Network , journalist Kristyn Burtt wrote: "The reason this series stands out amongst the pack is its cinematic feel and the utilization of mise en scene. You don't hear the main character utter a word until Episode 7, and boy, is it effective.” [15]

Awarding the film a five out of five star rating, Feo Amante's film critic E.C.McMullen Jr. wrote: "The tension from episode to episode is incredible and Laurent just keeps ramping it up. With its beautiful settings (shot in Paris, France), excellent cinematography, and super tight, witty action, this could very well define the future of online cinema. I'm not kidding! URBAN WOLF is a Turbo Thrust Cat and Mouse Thriller with a V8 engine!” [16]

Characters and cast

Urban Wolf

Actor Vincent Sze plays the role of Justin Case.

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Further Reading

Interview with Laurent Touil-Tartour

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