"You really find the people who connect with (your film), and they're into the same things you are. And it's not scary."

"With this, I cared more about keeping creative control."As part of the launch of our New Voice Crowdfunding Rally, we went to SeriesFest to talk to the biggest and brights stars of this year's hottest original series.In this first video, the team behind the series DOOMSDAY (creator Sonja O'Hara and lead actor Donald Paul) talk about what it took to make their series and what they did to maintain creative control over their production.

Like the Water was born out of many bottles of wine, naive enthusiasm, and a group of lady friends large enough that if one person faltered and screamed, “What-are-we-doing-we-don’t-know-how-to-make-a-movie!” there was always at least one of us having an empowered day who could say, “Nah, we got this.” And maybe because we didn’t know any better, and  maybe because we really believed in what we were doing, and really believed in each other, seven months from the moment I first drunkenly suggested that we make a movie in Maine, we found ourselves doing just that.