The pageant honors Segel and several other different stars of streaming movies, TV, podcasts and extra.
Actor, author and producer Jason Segel is heading to Napa later this month to look at a brand new pageant celebrating movies, tv sequence, podcasts and different on-line digital content material.
The primary-ever Napa Valley StreamFest, working April 24-27 in and round downtown Napa, will honor the “Shrinking” star April 26 with its TV Efficiency of the 12 months Award throughout a ceremony on the Uptown Theatre in recognition of his Emmy-nominated efficiency reverse Harrison Ford on the Apple TV+ sequence, organizers mentioned.
In “Shrinking,” Segel performs a grieving therapist who radically adjustments his strategy to remedy by telling shoppers what he actually thinks, delivering blunt recommendation that begins to rework each his shoppers and himself. The sequence, which Segel additionally co-created, was renewed for a 3rd season in October.
“He’s an unbelievable artist, and ‘Shrinking’ is a type of exhibits that makes you cry, makes you chortle, and provides you the nice and cozy fuzzies,” pageant co-founder Fearon DeWeese mentioned.
In Napa, Segel will sit down with The Hollywood Reporter’s Scott Feinberg for a career-retrospective interview that can even be recorded for Feinberg’s fashionable “Awards Chatter” podcast.
Different streaming celebrities will probably be honored on the pageant as nicely.
Meredith Hagner, who stars reverse Vince Vaughn within the Apple TV+ sequence “Dangerous Monkey,” will obtain the pageant’s Highlight Tribute Award, and musician Diane Warren will obtain the Visionary Tribute Award throughout a screening of the brand new documentary about her life “Diane Warren: Relentless,” additionally on the Uptown Theatre on April 26.
Different pageant company embrace podcaster and former NBA star Baron Davis, who will seem at a panel dialogue with writer, activist and former NFL participant R.Ok. Russell at Feast in Ahead on April 24; author/director Jay Duplass and author/actor Michael Strassner will display screen their new movie “The Baltimorons” at Uptown Theatre on April 25; and Saagar Shaikh (“Deli Boys” on Hulu) and Megan Stott (“Penelope” on Netflix), will seem with different streaming stars at a panel dialogue at Signorello Property on April 27.
Single-day tickets to the pageant begin at $125.
The four-day pageant creates an immersive expertise for followers of streaming content material, in line with founders DeWeese and Juliana Folks.
“We’re making a bingeable pageant,” DeWeese mentioned.
The pair centered on together with programming that appealed to indie digital creators like themselves.
DeWeese is a author, producer, director and former occasion supervisor for the Sundance Movie Pageant, and Folks is a longtime actor, author and producer who has appeared in movies and TV for greater than a decade.
The 2 met whereas each had been working on the Napa Valley Movie Pageant. In 2020, they launched their very own manufacturing firm Ashella Productions. A yr later, they produced and filmed in Napa a pilot episode for a tv miniseries, “Uncredited,” starring Folks and directed by DeWeese.
The inspiration for Napa StreamFest got here from the expertise that they had purchasing “Uncredited” to movie and tv festivals.
“We had been too lengthy to be a brief movie at a movie pageant, and TV festivals solely take Netflix exhibits or Amazon Prime sequence,” DeWeese mentioned. “As an indie artist, the place do you slot in whenever you’re creating completely different realms of content material?”
StreamFest can even characteristic a dwell recording of the favored “Was I In A Cult?” podcast, a dialog with TikTok star Adam Rose, recognized by his tens of millions of followers because the “Blue Cardigan Man,” and a screening of the brand new docuseries “The Expertise Present,” with director Sam Jones (“Dangerous Monkey,” “Ted Lasso”) on April 25.
The pageant can even characteristic dwell performances from TikTok comedians Corey O’Brien, Heather Shaw and Leah Knauer.
“With plenty of festivals, they’re inviting influencers to come back, however only a few festivals are giving them a slot within the programming to speak about their content material creation,” DeWeese mentioned.
DeWeese and Folks are additionally gearing as much as launch the StreamFest Society, a nonprofit devoted to offering mentorship to those that need to enter the digital leisure business however don’t know the place to begin. This system, which can start accepting functions this summer season, provides one-on-one steering from business professionals.
For extra info and tickets, go to napavalleystreamfest.com.
