ALTERNATIVES - A NEW SERIES
"Alternatives" follows Mark Davis, a history professor, as he navigates the complexities of alternate realities and the multiverse. As he is experimenting with his trans-world travel ability, his movements come to the attention of an Enforcement Agency known as Theodon – Theodon is an organization consisting of agents throughout the multiverse and is involved in maintaining legal and political order on any of the earths allied through the organization. With Theodon’s help, Mark finds himself navigating a multiverse teetering on the brink of collapse.
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Michael Korolenko did undergraduate work in English and film at Vassar College. He received his Master of Science degree at Boston University for his thesis film, “SINCE ’45,” a documentary on recent American history and the media. The film went on to win a student Academy Award for Best Documentary as well as the Focus Competition Award. It was screened at both FILMEX in Los Angeles and the New York Film Festival and was televised nationally on Showtime, the Discovery Channel, and Jim Lehrer’s PBS series “U.S. Chronicle."
Living in New York City, he was on the ground floor of interactive multimedia, working with the firm Ramirez & Woods along with MIT on an interactive exhibit for the US Pavilion at the Knoxville Tennessee World’s Fair. He made numerous independent films, including “Chords of Fame,” a musical biography about American folk singer Phil Ochs and the 1960’s, funded in part by grants from both The American Film Institute and The National Endowment for the Arts. He made a short film, the “electric folk operetta,” “Tamlin,” based on an old Scottish ballad, as well as numerous corporate films.
Michael moved out to Washington State where he worked on films and became a full time Professor in Film and Communication Studies at Bellevue College. During this period, Michael published fantasy novellas as well as textbooks on writing for new Media.
He worked at Microsoft as a writer for MSN’s Online series about modern U.S. History. Michael also created Bellevue College’s Making Movies class where under his tutelage, students worked on the “Rocket Man” series: spoofs of 1930’s adventure serials. He and his students also worked on other films that won numerous student awards. BC film students worked as crew and assistants alongside a professional production crew.
