UPDATE The first episode is available to watch now!

AWARD-WINNING documentarian Matt Bucy spent weeks on the Judas Kiss set in the summer of 2010, shooting behind-the-scenes footage of the production and interviewing cast and crew.

As we move toward the North American DVD premiere of the film, we will be releasing a four-episode Web series, Judas Kiss: Behind the Scenes, produced by Blue Seraph Productions, and written and directed by Matt Bucy.

The four episodes:

• Introduce the principal cast and crew, especially the hot young stars getting so much recent press around the United States.
• Document the creative tension at the heart of the partnership between director J.T. Tepnapa and writer-producer Carlos Pedraza.
• Explore actor Sean Paul Lockhart’s past as adult film star Brent Corrigan, and what it means for his new career as a mainstream actor.
• Offer a sneak peek at the Bollyw00d-style end musical number, “If I Fall,” performed by the Judas Kiss cast and crew, joined by the song’s composer, American Idol alumnus Brian Lam.
• Show off the new animated logo for Blue Seraph Productions, the company behind Judas Kiss.

Related Links

• Direct YouTube link to the teaser
• Watch all the videos on the Judas Kiss YouTube Channel
• Blue Seraph Productions website

Carlos co-authored the screenplay with noted scifi author David Gerrold (“The Trouble with Tribbles”), who also directed the episode.

TrekMovie.com hailed “Blood and Fire, Part 2″ as:

An emotional yet exciting story, complete with the excellent production values and effects that we have come to expect from the Phase II team.

The past year also attracted kudos for Carlos’ work from Joss Whedon, who told Rolling Stone that the Phase II episode, “World Enough and Time,” which Carlos co-executive produced, inspired Whedon to create the Internet phenomenon Dr. Horrible’s Singalong Blog.

Rolling Stone, by the way, named Phase II, among its five must-watch Web series.

“Blood and Fire” is based on a script Gerrold originally wrote for Star Trek: The Next Generation in the 1990s. It was never produced because its passing reference to a male couple aboard the Enterprise was considered too controversial by the producers.

Carlos adapted the script for the original Trek series-based Phase II, expanding the story to include Captain Kirk’s nephew Peter as one part of the male couple. Interestingly, two decades later, that portrayal proved controversial when “Blood and Fire, Part 1″ debuted a year ago.

Fortunately, Part 2’s release this past November was greeted by far fewer objections.

“Blood and Fire” was shot by Judas Kiss‘s director of photography Dave Berry and second-unit director Ben Alpi, of our partner company Runic Films, with visual effects by Joël Bellucci.