Trailervision is the idea that movie trailer

Trailer (film)

A trailer or preview is an advertisement or a commercial for a feature film that will be exhibited in the future at a cinema. The term "trailer" comes from their having originally been shown at the end of a feature film screening. That practice did not last long, because patrons tended to leave the...

s are their own artistic medium. Fiction

Fiction

Fiction is the form of any narrative or informative work that deals, in part or in whole, with information or events that are not factual, but rather, imaginary—that is, invented by the author. Although fiction describes a major branch of literary work, it may also refer to theatrical,...

al trailers by a group of Canadian actors and directors first appeared in 1999 with one of the first popular video sites on the Internet

Internet

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. The idea was to create movie trailers for movies that don't exist, so that the movies were actual original creations. CNN

CNN

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 has profiled Trailervision, calling it an "international cult phenomenon."

Trailervision's titles include "Lance Banyon VS The Ku Klux Klan", "Jesus 2000", "Switched", "Wimp Club", "Gangstas In Love", the Office Sex series beginning with "Welcome to Office Sex" and "I Know What You'll Want Next Summer".

The Toronto-based media website was created by Albert Nerenberg

Albert Nerenberg

Albert Nerenberg is a Canadian independent filmmaker, actor, journalist, and laughologist. His films include Stupidity , Escape to Canada , Let's All Hate Toronto , and Laughology...

, previously a print journalist. Trailervision's in-house cast disbanded in 2002 partly because of the dot-com bust. The original material remains hosted on the site, which now accepts user-submitted and referred content only. The site is no longer live.

Former cast member Brooke D'Orsay

Brooke D'Orsay

Brooke D'Orsay is a Canadian actress and voice actress best known for her role as Caitlin Cooke on the animated Canadian series 6teen and on King's Ransom as Brooke Mayo. She was recently in the Nickelodeon movie The Boy Who Cried Werewolf as Paulina Von Eckberg.-Early life:D'Orsay was born in...

 has gone on to success in teen films, most notably Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle

Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle

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. Mike Patterson is featured on CBC children's cooking show It's Edible - Incredible!. Brian Mota writes and performs with Toronto comedy troupe Spankhaus. Nerenberg filmed and released Stupidity: The Documentary which can be seen on CBC's Rough Cuts

Rough Cuts (TV series)

Rough Cuts was a Canadian television series, which aired on CBC Newsworld. Launched in 1994, the series presents documentary films by new and independent journalists and producers...

and The Documentary Channel.

A subscription fee was charged for access to the website's content, although a few trailers and promotional video items were available for free.

External links

No so good since most links go nowhere. Maybe the site was so good it had to end and so is no more.