Dover Independent Players

11/28/2021

Thrilled to announce that Playing with Fire is one of the 79 films selected by the Giallo International Film Festival out of 500 films submitted! GIFF is streaming all of the selected films on their youtube channel, stay tuned for a time and date when you can see Playing With Fire from the comfort of your own home!! 🔥🔥🔥

10/17/2021

Just sent out the advanced screening link to all of the Seed & Spark donors who reached that incentive! If you should have received a link and you did not, send me a message either here or on my personal page Devon Padley and I will send it over ASAP

Cannot wait to hear what you all think! And look forward to getting to share it publicly soon!

09/11/2021

so excited to announce that won three awards at the IndieFEST Film Awards 🔥🔥🔥
🔥 Award of Recognition WINNER for Original Music (Diego Rojas), Film Short, and Leading Actress ()

08/14/2021

Last month we received eight certificates from the - including seven awards of merit and one award of excellence! This festival scores each category and along with the certificates sends the judges score cards and each of their notes. It was incredibly helpful to receive such personalized feedback and I look forward to submitting to this festival again! Congrats team!!
Recognition for the film, in directing, editing, cinematography, acting, production design, music, and sound design! 🔥

07/28/2021

With pre-production and production of Rebesto Studios’ new film ‘Remedies’ taking over my entire brain this week, we’re a little behind on sharing some exciting news! The first of which is: we were an official selection of the !! ✨ Stay tuned for some 🏆 announcements 🧐🎉

07/20/2021

If you'd like to keep up with the productions I am working on, please follow me to my new page and new company. I will continue to post updates about Playing with Fire here, but to keep up with the new film, please give Rebesto Studios a like!

Hello friends and family!

After eight years collaborating and producing art under the name Dover Independent Players, which I founded with JJ Blake in 2013 with our stage production of Adopt a Sailor at Dover High School, I have decided to step in a new direction. The Dover Independent Players, led by myself but supported greatly by JJ Blake and Wes Cannon throughout the years, has produced one theater piece, three short films, and three music videos in our eight years together (not bad for the three of us living in the same city only two out of those eight years). Be prepared for a long and sappy post on the DIP page eventually, but I will still be there for a while with Playing with Fire news as we run the festival circuit.

I am a different artist (& human) than I was when we founded DIP. As I continued to create and collaborate, I came to realize that the Dover Independent Players were no longer, it was now the Dover Independent Player, just me holding on to something that had sentiment, that I had grown so much with over the years. But it’s time to let it go, and embrace change, the new person I am, and the values that are most important to me!

Hence, Rebesto Studios. Female & femme focused, inclusive, collaborative. These are just a few of the words I hope describe the way my years with Rebesto will play out. I have lots of ideas of what Rebesto will become - hoping to someday soon include mentorship and coaching for young actors preparing for auditions and other young people from small towns with big dreams. I have been sitting on this name and idea for so long, but I thought what better way to launch my own company than with the production of my first completely independently written script. Check back tomorrow on the details of what we have been cooking up these last couple months. We have a big week ahead of us here at Rebesto Studios. Damn, that feels nice to say. 💞

Devon

(and a huge thank you to my talented friend Jaclyn St Vincent for designing me the logo of my dreams! https://www.jaclynstvincent.com/ )

06/30/2021

Three years ago! It's been a lo(oooo)ng time coming, and we are now selected to five festivals. So excited to be able to share our work with everyone soon!

day 3. final shoot day. let's do this.

06/26/2021

As we celebrate our festival selections, we can't help but feel insanely grateful to the people who made it all possible! We are sending big thank you's out to everyone who donated to our original Seed & Spark Campaign 🔥🔥🔥🔥