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48 Hours Only – Watch the ENTIRE First Episode

FreshFruitPie — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 04:04:59 +0000

Update: The online premiere has finished. What did you think? Leave a comment below – we’d love to hear from you. Miss the premiere? You can still catch the trailer here.

Now that you’ve watched it, get the DVD! Share it with some kids, your church, or other families. Look into the free Family Guide and Bible Study to create some great discussion about the show.

Also, become a fan on facebook to keep up-to-date on the show’s progress, and vote to help us get Fresh Fruit Pie into big stores!

Spread the word.

Just a little time left until this free online premiere is over. Please let your friends know – then they can experience Fresh Fruit Pie too! It’s easy – just share the following link on your facebook or twitter:

http://www.freshfruitpie.com/online-premiere/

Online Premiere Launches October 19

FreshFruitPie — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 06:13:45 +0000

UPDATE: The Fresh Fruit Pie Online Premiere has been launched! Check it out here.

After experiencing such a tremendous response at the world premiere, we’re creating a new opportunity for everyone who couldn’t make it to Mishawaka that day. For 48 hours only, you can view the entire pilot episode of Fresh Fruit Pie. That’s right, all of it – right here on freshfruitpie.com.

It’s very likely we won’t do this again in the future, so make sure to mark your calendars and check it out! The showing starts Tuesday morning at 12:01 AM and ends Thursday morning at 12:01 AM sharp. (Also, make sure to take advantage of the early bird special on the DVD. The special ends as soon as the premiere begins.)

Want to be notified when the online premiere is launched? Then sign up here, and we’ll let you know as soon as it’s released:

Thank You

We want to wish a big thanks to everyone who has helped promote the online premiere of Fresh Fruit Pie. As more blogs post announcements about the premiere, we’ll post up additional thank-you links:
ChristianCinema.com
Orlando Parenting Multiples Examiner
Acting Balanced
Broken Teepee
Gina’s Kokopelli
Go Yay!
In the Mommy Business
Mami of Multiples
Alas 3 Lads
Geeky Girl Reviews
Fat and Sassy Wallet
Having Fun Blogging
Critique of the Unique
Toronto Teacher Mom Blog
I Am Believing God
The Things We Hope For
Tiger Lily’s Book
It’s My Life
Nebraska Hockey Mom
Brandy’s Big Bargains
Coupon Clippin Daddy

Early Bird Special & 48-Hour Online Premiere

FreshFruitPie — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 22:32:04 +0000

UPDATE: Fresh Fruit Pie: Party has been released. Get it here.

The October 5th release of Fresh Fruit Pie: Party is coming up fast. We’re offering a special gift to our loyal fans who have followed us during the production and been so patient for this long-awaited release.

The Early Bird Special

Fresh Fruit Pie: Party will normally cost $12.99, but starting on October 5th for two weeks only, we will offer a special early bird discount to anyone who orders through this website: $3 off and FREE Shipping to just about anywhere in the world (see below for list of countries)!

That’s right – $9.99 – for one awesome piece of family entertainment. Order as many as you want, and they’ll still be $9.99 with free shipping. Keep in mind, though, that this special will only last for two weeks. Once this deal is over, we’ll be hosting…

The 48-Hour Online Premiere

For those of you who couldn’t make it to the World Premiere in Mishawaka, we are offering a one-time free online showing of the entire first episode of Fresh Fruit Pie. That’s right – the whole show – FREE. 48 Hours Only. It begins Tuesday, October 19, 2010 at 12:01 AM Eastern Time and ends exactly 48 hours later on Thursday, October 21, 2010 at 12:01 AM. We’re excited about this opportunity to bring this vision to the whole world by making it available to the public for a limited time.

If you have a family or children’s ministry, we strongly recommend grabbing the DVD during the early bird special. Free is always awesome, but the online premiere will be a low-resolution video, so you won’t have the full experience of the DVD. By taking advantage of our early bird special, you’ll have Fresh Fruit Pie available any time your family is in the mood for some excitement and laughs (and trust us, your kids will want to watch Fresh Fruit Pie over and over again). So grab the DVD on October 5th for $9.99 (delivered), then let your friends know about the 48-Hour Online Premiere so they too can experience the awesomeness of Fresh Fruit Pie. Together, we can spread the vision of awesome family entertainment to the whole world!

And by whole world, we mean all of Planet Earth!

As stated above, we are thrilled to offer FREE Shipping to just about any country that exists on this beautiful creation. Countries include: United States of America, Mexico, Canada, UK, France, Belgium, Germany, Spain, South Africa, New Zealand, Australia, India, South Korea, Japan, the Phillipines, Singapore, and many more. If your country isn’t listed, please contact us (or leave a comment below) with your country of origin, and we’ll answer whether we can provide FREE shipping.

World Premiere = Huge Success

FreshFruitPie — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 22:30:28 +0000

With a remarkable turnout, an enthusiastic audience, and a pile of DVD sales, Fresh Fruit Pie’s World Premiere launches the series with a smashing start.

What a blast we had this weekend! We had shows packed so full we couldn’t fit any more people in. Balloons flew around the room and excitement filled the air. Audiences guzzled down gallons of soda and annihilated 30 pounds of popcorn. The energy couldn’t have been more positive.

It was exciting to see how the general public would respond to Fresh Fruit Pie. The cast and crew poured a lot of love into the production, but when the lights go dim and everyone else in the world begins to watch, that’s when the truth comes out.

As the Director, you can’t imagine how nervous I was during the first showing. Our show isn’t the typical family fare. With Fresh Fruit Pie, we strive for something new and innovative, not to mention intense. Coming into the premiere, we had no idea how audiences would respond. Would people understand the new format? Would it make sense? Would the kids like it? Would a stampede of pitchfork-carrying moms charge at me after the show, demanding my head on a plate?

People are naturally suspicious of something new, and likewise the room was quiet at first. After a few minutes into the show, however, a wave began to pass over the room. People all over the room loosened up, and a few giggles erupted. Giggles turned into chuckles. Chuckles erupted into gut-busting laughter. When that first round of unanimous cheer filled the room, my fears began to rest.

The people LOVED it.

The most excited audience? No surprise: Kids 6-10
Second most excited audience? SURPRISE – Full-grown men

As loud as, or in many cases louder than, the little giggles were full-on masculine bolts of laughter. This surprised us, as most “family films” cause men to yawn – but Fresh Fruit Pie’s humor hit a funny bone with the dads in the room. Awesome – we’re actually making videos the entire family enjoys!

Once the 1/2 hour experience was over, I asked everyone to join our cause of awesome family entertainment by signing our mailing list and voting to get Fresh Fruit Pie into stores. People responded en masse, and our entire mailing list suddenly DOUBLED in size.

We also offered parents a Family Guide and Bible Study to help create discussion about the positive values in the show. Over 100 guides were taken.

DVDs for Fresh Fruit Pie: “Party!” were available at the event, two weeks before our release date of October 5th. Boy did those discs fly off the table! We almost ran out in the middle of the event and had to rush over to our storage area to grab another case. Amazingly, proceeds from the DVD sales completely covered the cost of food, drinks, and the room rental.

Several members of the cast and crew graciously volunteered to manage the crowds and serve refreshments during multiple showings. I expected them to get bored watching the show again and again, but many stayed for three, four, five or more shows – and laughed at different jokes each time.

All in all, it was a tremendous success. Can’t wait to do it again.

Couldn’t make it to the world premiere in Mishawaka? Check out the online premiere or pick up a DVD.

Family Guide and Bible Study Now Available

FreshFruitPie — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 19:00:19 +0000

One of our main visions for Fresh Fruit Pie is to provide opportunities for parents to teach their kids positive values through an amazingly fun show.

One of the biggest challenges in sitting kids down to teach morals is competition from other stimuli in their lives. Compared to youtube, cell phone texting, eye-popping video games, and facebook, any sort of structured moral teaching from adults is comparatively boring.

To reach kids, we have to engage their culture, not ours. So how does Fresh Fruit Pie accomplish this? We created a show that’s just as exciting, or even more exciting, than other forms of media they have access to, all with the intention of giving you as a parent or kids’ group leader the power to educate them on the morals you desire to teach.

Our show in fact reaches the tough 6-13 age bracket very well, though younger and older kids have also been fascinated by Fresh Fruit Pie.

We have observed that many kids pick up morals quickly when a parent or trusted adult creates conversation about situations found in movies and TV shows. The visual nature of film creates an instant link in a child’s mind that can then be called upon to teach him or her appropriate and positive values. (The same can be said for negative values, which is why it’s important to monitor the content our kids watch)

To help you succeed as a parent, pastor, or educator, Fresh Fruit Pie has been designed to create opportunities for these types of conversations by weaving those positive values through every portion of the series’ episodes in a way that’s fun and relevant for kids. Many scenes in Fresh Fruit Pie are very punchy, poignant, and grab kids’ attention. You can then shepherd that attention into interesting discussions about the morals at hand.

We’ve created a few handy guides to help lead kids into discussion after viewing an episode of Fresh Fruit Pie. These guides are FREE to download and serve as a powerful tool to teach kids the values that you’d like them to learn.

FAMILY GUIDE

We first offer the Fresh Fruit Pie Family Guide. It provides a platform for launching a great discussion with your family on the values brought up in Fresh Fruit Pie. Feel free to customize this guide in a way that best fits your needs. We assume most kids have tiny attention spans (as do many adults), so it’s short by design.

Download the Family Guide below or through this link.

BIBLE STUDY

If you would like to teach from the Bible, lead a Sunday School, or otherwise direct a child’s psychological development from a Christian worldview, we have a supplemental Bible Study available.

Fresh Fruit Pie is inspired by the “Fruit of the Spirit” found in the Bible. As filmmakers, we focus on this teaching because it is simple for children of all ages to understand and relevant to situations in their daily lives.

“The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires. Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.” (Galatians 5:22-25)

We recommend beginning your discussion with the Family Guide to first engage children with the guide’s concrete questions, then transitioning to the Bible Study to solidify their understanding of the Scripture.

Download the Bible Study below or through this link.

DOWNLOAD:

Family Guide for Fresh Fruit Pie – “Party!” (PDF)

Bible Study for Fresh Fruit Pie – “Party!” (PDF)

Free Posters, Stickers, and Postcards

FreshFruitPie — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:35:32 +0000

You can help us make the Fresh Fruit Pie World Premiere a success. Here’s how:

We have tons of posters, stickers, and postcards. If you live in the Michiana area, we’d like to send you these items for FREE through U.S. Mail to help spread the word about our awesome premiere event September 17-19. (UPDATE: We now have posters available for anyone in the United States). Put them up at work, school, give them to friends – anywhere that can help get the word out about the premiere.

If you’d like to help us spread the word, send us an e-mail at with how many of each material you’d like along with your mailing address.

Again, these are totally FREE. The only thing we ask is that you actually use these promo materials to tell others about the Fresh Fruit Pie premiere. We’re pretty low budget and spent money to make these, so we’d rather not see them used to make paper airplanes or as bonfire fuel. They’re promo items, so let’s promo up the town!

Got the itch to make some noise? Then drop us a line at with how many posters, stickers, and postcards you want – and where we should send them to. Let’s make this premiere awesome!

If you want, you can format the e-mail like the following:

X – Posters
X – Pages of Stickers (12 stickers per page)
X – Postcards
Send to: 423 My Address
South Bend, IN 46661

DVD Cover Art Finished – Off to the Factory We Go!

FreshFruitPie — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:09:06 +0000

It’s finished.

Finally, after over a year of casting, script development, prop-building, production, and post-production, the first episode of Fresh Fruit Pie is complete – and boy, are we happy with it! It’s been a long and hard road, filled with literal blood, sweat, and tears – but in the end, all of that toil is going to be worth it. We’re very proud of all the actors, crew, and other partners that turned Fresh Fruit Pie from a dream into a reality.

This week we sent the DVD master and DVD cover art to Disc Makers, who gave us a generous discount for a rush job after hearing our vision. We should receive our shipment of DVDs in just a few short weeks.

We’re really happy with how the DVD cover art came out. Click the image on the left to see a larger version of it. What you see here will be folded and inserted into a standard Amaray case. The front cover is located towards the right of the image, the spine in the middle, and the back cover to the left. We were looking for a design that could be re-themed for each episode but still maintain a sense of consistency. Overall, we’re really happy with it and feel it was 100% worth the time and money spent to make the DVD cover art a reality!

Here’s also a glimpse of the artwork for the disc itself. We love the kind of art that can placed in a circle, and a DVD or a CD creates a perfect canvas to make this unique kind of “circle” art. Fun!

The Fresh Fruit Pie World Premiere is coming up in less than three weeks. (Don’t forget to reserve some seats). And also, the DVD release is only five weeks away!

Isn’t it crazy? Maybe it is, but crazy suits us quite well.

World Premiere: Sept. 17-19. DVD Release: Oct. 5.

FreshFruitPie — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 07:26:22 +0000

It’s finally here.

Yes, today we’re announcing the launch dates of “Party!”, the first episode of Fresh Fruit Pie. It’s been a long time coming, but we’re all extremely excited and confident that it’s well worth the wait.

The World Premiere

If you live within driving distance of South Bend/Mishawaka, Indiana, be sure to come to the world premiere of Fresh Fruit Pie! We’re taking over the Hyatt Place in Mishawaka for the entire weekend of September 17-19, and we’ll be showing non-stop, back-to-back events where you get to see the new show – for FREE.

That’s right – FREE! Refreshments, too – all FREE. Invite your friends! Invite your family! You can’t miss this – it’s going to be pure awesome.

The only problem? Seating is very limited. We highly recommend that you make your reservations now so that you can get the time you want. Of course, you can always come to the event and look for empty seats in case people who reserve are no-shows, but those will also be limited and filled on a first-come, first-serve basis.

So again, make your reservations now. It’s really easy and fast.

The DVD Launch

Let’s say you’re going camping the weekend of September 17-19. Maybe you live 1000 miles away from Indiana (smart decision, considering our winters here). That’s totally cool, too! The DVD will release just a few short weeks after the premiere on October 5, 2010. It will be available through this website and selected retailers.

Want to help us get Fresh Fruit Pie into MORE stores?

Then vote to get Fresh Fruit Pie widely distributed across the world! Invite your friends to vote, too. The more people that join our cause, the more stores will stock our show, and the more people will experience our vision of awesome family entertainment!

We’re really excited for the things that are coming. Thank you all for being a part of it.

P.S. If you haven’t seen the trailer yet, check it out at http://www.freshfruitpie.com/trailer.

Trailer Released for First Episode: “Party!”

FreshFruitPie — Thu, 06 May 2010 20:59:37 +0000

Last month, we announced that we would release a Fresh Fruit Pie trailer in May. Well here it is in its full glory! Watch it now, then vote to get Fresh Fruit Pie into stores.

A little info about the first episode of Fresh Fruit Pie: “Party!”

Everyone wants to be happy. Or do they?

There’s a lot to be happy about in life, but instead of enjoying what we have, we worry and gripe about what we don’t have. We tend to ignore all the good things in life and focus on the little inconveniences.

Filled with non-stop hilarious sketches and authentic scenarios, “Party!” jumps into the story of life to discover the secret of true happiness and joy.

The full episode of “Party!” releases DVD Fall 2010. Remember to vote to get Fresh Fruit Pie into stores!

New Trailer Launches in May

FreshFruitPie — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 21:44:53 +0000

It’s been a long wait, but the time is almost here to release our much anticipated trailer. After over 5 months of shooting, editing, and buzz-building, we’re nearly ready to give the world its first taste of Fresh Fruit Pie.

I must warn you, it’ll be action-packed and not for the faint of heart. In fact, we have so many gags in the full show that a lot of material has to be cut from the trailer, otherwise the trailer will be too long!

A few days ago, two boys, age 10 and 15, secretly stood behind me watching as I previewed a rough cut of the trailer on my laptop. After a few minutes, I felt drool hit the top of my head – I turned around, and I caught the two boys staring googly-eyed at my monitor, hungry for more. I think it was the 15-year-old that drooled. That’s a good sign.

So, if you have it edited, why not release it now? Lots of music, sound editing, and special effects still need to be done. Plus, we’ll be getting feedback from other industry professionals before making it live to the public. This guarantees we launch the absolute best trailer for Fresh Fruit Pie!

All will be perfected and ready to shine to the world by early May. Check back as often as possible, become a facebook fan, or follow us on twitter to be first in line to watch the upcoming trailer release.

For now – Vote to get Fresh Fruit Pie into stores.

Fresh Fruit Pie isn’t just a product, it’s a movement – to make the world of family entertainment awesome. Our company is small, passionate, and uncontrolled by the big studios – which means we don’t have to report to uncreative “money people” and can focus completely on making amazing videos. Revolutions by nature must start small before growing huge: they challenge the established way of doing things.

The one key to making this revolution successful? Getting Fresh Fruit Pie into big stores such as Best Buy and Wal-Mart.

However, there’s one problem. The stores don’t respect small studios, only big ones like Fox or Warner Brothers. They only stock titles that have tons of marketing dollars thrown at them or a huge grassroots following.

That’s where we come in. If we can build a huge community behind a revolutionary kids video such as Fresh Fruit Pie, if we can build a list of 5,000…10,000…or even 100,000 people, the stores will have to listen, or they’ll feel like they’re missing out on the next big thing (which is correct).

You can be part of this movement by casting your vote right now. Type your e-mail into the box below and hit “Sign Me Up!” to join our ranks of world-changers. We’ll keep you updated on Fresh Fruit Pie’s latest happenings, including exclusive news and awesome offers. As always, we’ll never sell your e-mail address to anyone or spam you with useless garbage.

Every vote counts. Seriously. So join now to be part of something huge.