It's video news day at the New Improv Page. Item 1:

Sneaky Kings sent along this press release.

Sneaky Kings Productions announces that they have signed a domestic video & DVD distribution deal for DOT with Vanguard. DOT hit the shelves 24 Dec 2002.

DOT, winner of Slamdunk's Best Comedy and The Independent Spirit Awards, is a groundbreaking mockumentary of nine months in the life of Zectek.com, an Internet startup company. A social satire and sly comedy of manners unfolds through "behind-the-scenes footage" and interviews with the companyís founders and employees. As Zectek.com rides the e-commerce roller coaster, the twenty and thirty-somethingís that run it have their lives turned repeatedly inside out.

The proud parents of company are visionary con man/philosopher Si (Simeon Schnapper), naive salesman Mitch (Michael Mazzarra) and cynical technical wizard Stan (Steve Walker). These slacker/nerds-turned-entrepreneurs are soon joined by employees as neurotic as they are: Smart and sensuous Jane (Jamie McMillan), earnest fruitcake Ross (Mathew O'Neil) and pragmatic pixie receptionist Maria (Katherine M. Ripley).

Witness: strategic meetings turned to fist fights!
See: advisory boards that include the Jolly Green Giant.
Experience: a cutting-edge comedy about period in our culture so far ahead of itself that it's present is passÈ.

DOT is the brainchild and debut feature production of Sneaky KingsÆ, a Chicago-based production company made up of local theater and independent film alumni, guerilla filmmakers and e-business veterans. Sneaky Kings producers Simeon Schnapper and Brett Singer shot the feature locally and cut it in-house with Appleís Final Cut Pro.

You can buy DOT from Amazon.