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 +<wrap lo>**THE STUDIO** //that donors built: Axanar's abandoned California studio remains empty, its landlord having tragically passed away.// <wrap lo>Photo/Axanar Productions</wrap></wrap>
  
 ====== Axanar's Abandoned Former Studio Continues to Flail ====== ====== Axanar's Abandoned Former Studio Continues to Flail ======
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 VALENCIA, Calif. — In a tragic coda to OWC Studios head [[Alec Peters]]' failed attempt to establish his own movie studio here, his former landlord died unexpectedly in January 2018 after spending months trying to entice someone to realize the former warehouse's potential as a production facility. VALENCIA, Calif. — In a tragic coda to OWC Studios head [[Alec Peters]]' failed attempt to establish his own movie studio here, his former landlord died unexpectedly in January 2018 after spending months trying to entice someone to realize the former warehouse's potential as a production facility.
  
-Danny Luh, 54, a well-known businessman in the Santa Clarita Valley, had posted a video on Instagram in December, appealing to his friends to help find a buyer or tenant for the building Peters abandoned unable to keep up payments on his three-year lease after sinking nearly three-quarters of a million dollars to turn the facility into a commercial studio.+Danny Luh, 54, a well-known businessman in the Santa Clarita Valley, had posted a video on Instagram in December, appealing to his friends to help find a buyer or tenant for the building Peters had abandoned, unable to keep up payments on his three-year lease after sinking nearly three-quarters of a million dollars to turn the facility into a commercial studio.
  
 ===== Abandoned Studio ===== ===== Abandoned Studio =====
  
-That money had all come from the million-dollar-plus [[crowdfunding_platforms|crowdfunding]] campaigns that were supposed to have paid for the //Axanar// feature film. Instead, Peters spent that money elsewhere without a single frame of //Axanar// ever being shot in what was once known as [[Industry Studios]].+[{{ ::valencia_ca.jpg?nolink|**VALENCIA** lies about 30 miles north of Los Angeles in the Santa Clarita Valley, home to a number of large soundstages.}}] 
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 +That money had all come from the million-dollar-plus [[crowdfunding_platforms|crowdfunding]] campaigns that were supposed to have paid for the //Axanar// feature film. Instead, Peters spent that money elsewhere without a single frame of //Axanar// ever being shot inside what was once known as [[Industry Studios]].
  
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 ==== The End of Industry Studios ==== ==== The End of Industry Studios ====
  
-The commercial studio had gone through various names during Peters's lease, first as [[Ares Studios]], then Valkyrie Studios and finally, Industry Studios. Though Peters sometimes [[axanar_myths#myth_2axanar_built_a_for-profit_studio|denied]] the facility was a commercial studio, he also publicly called it the "[[studio_move#the_studio_is_the_endgame|endgame]]" of the effort to produce //Axanar//, using donors' dollars to create a studio he could use to make for-profit content:+The commercial studio had gone through various names during Peters' lease, first as [[Ares Studios]], then Valkyrie Studios and finally, Industry Studios. Though Peters sometimes [[axanar_myths#myth_2axanar_built_a_for-profit_studio|denied]] the facility was a commercial studio, he also publicly called it the "[[studio_move#the_studio_is_the_endgame|endgame]]" of his effort to produce //Axanar//, using donors' dollars to create a studio he could use to make for-profit content:
  
-[{{ :owc-studios-august-1.jpg|**OWC STUDIOS** Alec Peters poses with visitors to his new leased warehouse outside Atlanta.}}]+[{{ :owc-studios-august-1.jpg|**OWC STUDIOS** Alec Peters (left) poses with visitors to his new leased warehouse outside Atlanta.}}]
  
 > "The studio is the endgame. The idea is we create a studio that we can then [use to] produce our own original content, our own movies."(([[http://www.chickswhoscript.com/tags/alec-peters|Chicks Who Script Podcast]], 9/28/15.)) > "The studio is the endgame. The idea is we create a studio that we can then [use to] produce our own original content, our own movies."(([[http://www.chickswhoscript.com/tags/alec-peters|Chicks Who Script Podcast]], 9/28/15.))
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 === Failed Indiegogo to Save Studio === === Failed Indiegogo to Save Studio ===
  
-Peters appealed to his vaunted 15,000 Axanar supporters to donate $200,000 to put the foundering Industry Studios on solid financial footing. Barely more than 300 contributed $22,020 to the failed effort. Peters instead [[moving survey|diverted those funds]] to pay for moving Axanar Productions' belongings, including its partially constructed sets, to a warehouse in Lawrenceville, Ga. Peters styled the facility as [[december_donor_update#owc_studios|OWC Studios]], its $5,000 monthly rent subsidized by the technology company, Other Worlds Computing.+Peters appealed to his vaunted 15,000 Axanar supporters to donate $200,000 to put the foundering Industry Studios on solid financial footing. Barely more than 300 contributed $22,020 to the failed effort. Peters instead [[moving survey|diverted those funds]] to pay for moving Axanar Productions' belongings, including its partially constructed sets, to a warehouse in Lawrenceville, Ga. Peters styled the facility as [[december_donor_update#owc_studios|OWC Studios]], its $5,000 monthly rent subsidized by the technology company, Other World Computing.
  
 === Silencing Dissent === === Silencing Dissent ===
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 After losing the California studio, Peters nonetheless assured his donors that he'd struck a favorable deal with Luh. As explained in his surrogate's blog, Fan Film Factor: After losing the California studio, Peters nonetheless assured his donors that he'd struck a favorable deal with Luh. As explained in his surrogate's blog, Fan Film Factor:
  
-> Alec gets to break his lease eight months early with no financial or legal penalty. Industry Studios will continue on with the same name and identity (possibly even some of the same people) and honor its commitment to the fan productions //Personal Space// and //Cholo vs. Vampires// to use the facility. When the time comes to film //Axanar//, Alec and his team will be able to make use of Industry Studios (and that giant green screen and lighting grid).((Jonathan Lane, [[https://fanfilmfactor.com/2017/04/13/some-perspective-a-big-win-for-axanar-or-game-over-part-2/|"SOME PERSPECTIVE: a 'BIG WIN' for AXANAR or 'GAME OVER'? (Part 2)"]], Fan Film Factor blog, 4/13/17.))+> Alec gets to break his lease eight months early with no financial or legal penalty. Industry Studios will continue on with the same name and identity (possibly even some of the same people) and honor its commitment to the fan productions //Personal Space// and //Cholo vs. Vampires// to use the facility. When the time comes to film //Axanar//, Alec and his team will be able to make use of Industry Studios (and that giant green screen and lighting grid).((Jonathan Lane, [[https://fanfilmfactor.com/2017/04/13/some-perspective-a-big-win-for-axanar-or-game-over-part-2/|"Some Perspective: A 'Big Win' for Axanar or 'Game Over'? (Part 2)"]], Fan Film Factor blog, 4/13/17.))
  
 ==== The Aftermath ==== ==== The Aftermath ====
  
-Luh shed the Industry Studios name and identity pretty quickly after Peters vacated the premises. And Peters' assurance to his donors that he'd get to use the facility to shoot the short film (nicknamed "Axanar Lite") appeared to have dissolved less than a year later.+Luh shed the Industry Studios name and identity pretty quickly after Peters vacated the premises. And Peters' assurance to his donors that he'd get to use the facility to shoot the short film (nicknamed "[[Axanar Lite]]") appeared to have dissolved less than a year later.
  
 === No California Shoot for Axanar Lite? === === No California Shoot for Axanar Lite? ===
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 When he announced Axanar was abandoning California, Peters tried to reassure donors by claiming Luh had promised to reimburse him, upon successfully renting, selling or leasing the warehouse, for at least some of donors' money he'd spent upgrading the facility: When he announced Axanar was abandoning California, Peters tried to reassure donors by claiming Luh had promised to reimburse him, upon successfully renting, selling or leasing the warehouse, for at least some of donors' money he'd spent upgrading the facility:
  
-> Axanar will be reimbursed for some of the build out we did. The details of this will be worked out, but Danny wants us to leave the lighting grid and the power upgrades as they are essential to making the facility work as a functioning commercial sound stage. And of course, while we can’t take build out such as the green screen or the office space we built, Danny sees the value of what we put into the studio and will help us all out in the long run.(([[http://www.axanarproductions.com/moving-at-warp-speed-an-update-on-the-past-three-weeks/|"Moving at warp speed – an update on the past three weeks," Axanar Productions blog]], 4/7/17.))+> Axanar will be reimbursed for some of the build out we did. The details of this will be worked out, but Danny wants us to leave the lighting grid and the power upgrades as they are essential to making the facility work as a functioning commercial sound stage. And of course, while we can’t take build out [//sic//] such as the green screen or the office space we built, Danny sees the value of what we put into the studio and will help us all out in the long run.(([[http://www.axanarproductions.com/moving-at-warp-speed-an-update-on-the-past-three-weeks/|"Moving at warp speed – an update on the past three weeks," Axanar Productions blog]], 4/7/17.))
  
-At the time, Peters never produced any documentation about the reimbursement, and it's unclear the details were ever worked out. {{:axamonitor-ico.gif?nolink|}}+At the time, Peters never produced any documentation about Luh's promised reimbursement, and it's unclear the details were ever worked out. {{:axamonitor-ico.gif?nolink|}}
  
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 **Keywords** {{tag>Industry_Studios studio Ares_Studios commercial}} **Keywords** {{tag>Industry_Studios studio Ares_Studios commercial}}