Month: April 2026

We at TAFT (True Art for Truth) Club sometimes get asked how do you become a TAFT Club Collaborator? Meaning that you work in front of the camera or behind the scenes or both on productions like “Johnny Rave Dr. Wacko” full length film and no budget flick.

The answer is that you automatically become a TAFT Club Collaborator if you collaborate on a TAFT Club production including films, music videos and theatre.

If you are a creative performing artist it starts with making TAFT Club Collaborators aware of you and your artistry by filling out the form on the front page of the TAFT Club website.

Ultimately to become a TAFT Club Collaborator you need to collaborate on a Taft Club production. For example, TAFT Club has recently started the informal Headless Horseman Theatre group. If you are an actor or another kind of performing artist creator and were to participate in performing in a monologue or a scene with creatives, depending on elements of TAFT Club Collaborator involvement this just might be your pathway to becoming a Taft Club Collaborator!

Over the years TAFT (True Art For Truth) members have done lots of theatre, including in the 1990s the infamous “Six Plays in Six Months”. These productions were staged in various popular off-off Broadway theatres and had their behind-the-scenes processes documented on the pioneering ten year running (1991 – 2000) reality show series called Video Diary NYC.

TAFT Club, Established 1982

Tap into the empowerment of Taft Club, T A F T standing for True Art For Truth, the club with the mission of supporting creative performing artists and/or locally owned stores with things such as streaming series stories. And to be very specific, streaming series stories are a possible tool to assist in the process of making a no budget flick and full length film such as “Johnny Rave Dr. Wacko”.

Micro Cinema Streaming Series

A micro cinema streaming series story is yet another method of getting the word out regarding your movie. It enables you to share in short segments your motion picture ultimately possibly leading the viewer to your web video on demand.

History of Streaming Series Stories

Members of TAFT club initially created informally on the lot of a movie studio known as Zoetrope Studios headed by movie director Francis Coppola where Taft Club’s founder Yianni Stamas, who is a writer filmmaker, was working from 1980 to 1983 helping educator and writer August Coppola to develop an arts education program. Although at that time streaming series stories in terms of technology were not yet visible, Taft Club did create episodic series such as “Nightmare in Acapulco.”

Films and Music

It was on the Zoetrope lot as well as locations throughout Los Angeles and in a small town called Taft that TAFT club members first started making films and music. These films and music and theatre productions which Yianni wrote and directed, included productions where TAFT Club creatives collaborated with artists of entertainment who during the course of their careers have won an Oscar or Emmy or Golden Globe. And Yianni as a marketer for celebrities has had as clients recipients of awards including a winner of a Tony.

Inwood Manhattan

TAFT club is still flourishing today, based since 2006 in a Manhattan NYC neighborhood known as Inwood Manhattan with creatives from all over the country engaged in the process to remotely create as well as engage in discussions about creativity. And of course, at the center of it all is the making of micro cinema streaming series and most importantly the TAFT club coinciding full length feature film no budget flick currently being produced such as “Johnny Rave Dr. Wacko”.

TAFT Club since when it was established in 1982 by writer filmmaker Yianni Stamas, has created and continues to create many industry of entertainment projects with member collaborators.

These projects follow the TAFT Club pathway in which creatives help each other and include TAFT Club in-house films and theatre including that from Headless Horseman Theatre.

Ultimately a micro cinema series leverages entertainment based marketing that focuses on the art of creativity thinking in terms first and foremost of the making of the full length film no budget flick such as “Johnny Rave Dr. Wacko” and then use the micro cinema series as a way of previewing segments of the film prior to its release and even in conjunction of its distribution.

Innovation and creativity are two different things. Innovation is a business concept that has to do with finding innovative ways to connect with clients and customers and ultimately make the sale. While creativity is what artists like those from TAFT club do to create their art regardless of art form.

Industry of entertainment insights can be helpful both to those seeking to create innovation as well as those who are interested in pursuing creativity.

This is because regardless of whether you are a business person or an artist, an important part of the process if you wish it to be sustainable in terms of making your art a part of helping you to earn a living, at times even the very creative individuals need to seek strategies and to share your own passion with your own series is one such strategy.

As a creative or a business person you can utilize an episodic online series as a way to preview your motion picture or other project in bite sized pieces.

Or even breaking your entire full length film or no budget flick into a series and have the series and access to you movie simultaneously through other methods such as web video on demand. The TAFT club production “Johnny Rave Dr. Wacko” is exploring this option.