Tails is not a white-collar gentlemen's club. It's a borderline-legal bar with topless dancers and a back room where anything goes for the right price. Nick, the owner, keeps Tails afloat by taking advantage of the desperate women who dance for money and the desperate men who pay for female attention. When a dead body shows up in the bathroom, Nick's control begins to unravel. Hunted by an ambitious, relentless cop, Nick's enemies begin to surround him.
It was late 2019, Harley Wallen was in between projects and a meeting scheduled with fellow actor ‘Tevis Marcum’.. They met at a local brunch spot in Lake Orion as Marcum offered Wallen the lead role as Nick and the offer to come onboard as a producer and more as thru laid out the pilot outline and pitch deck. The third co-creator ‘Steve Kopera’ had already been working on “Tale of Tails” but with Wallen’s new ideas they started rewriting season 1. After securing a meeting with Mike Hamilton and Courtney Hamilton Vanloo the presentation and pitch was made and the green light was flipped on! Wallen, Markum, Kopera needed to quickly assemble a team and begin production. Kaiti Wallen (wife of Harley Wallen) came in and ran the production and play the co-lead. The first weekend of February 2020 the cameras rolled only to be shut off by the COVID shutdown March 17th 2020. With less than 3 episodes in the can they almost reconsidered to rewrite it into a feature and just shoot whatever would be left but thankfully calmer heads prevailed and they started production back up again in late June 2020 and wrapped production shortly after Labor Day 2021. Steve Kopera had been editing as we were going so rather quickly Kopera and Wallen started “locking” episodes. As production came to an end Harley Wallen had secured his post production sound team with his talented duo Kaizad Patel and Firoze Patel on sound design and not only the composers of Randy Lynch and Allen Lynch but also their record label and the music that’s such a character throughout the series. After the very first episode was completed the attention turned towards the film festival circuit to try and find its audience. Tale of Tails was greeted with nominations and awards from across the globe, winning in Austin TX, Paris France, Toronto, Los Angeles, India and Italy. Even took the top prize as Best TV Pilot at the 26th Annual Indie Gathering Film Festival in Cleveland, OH. Finding a Sales Agent would be tricky but after Wallen met with good friend Dennis Reed Homestead Entertainment became the clear choice. An offer from Tubi and in June 2021 the series was released on Tubi TV and it’s been trending since then. The writing of Season 2 is in the works and lots of new plot and mysteries will be uncovered and the questions from Season 1 will be answered…
https://tubitv.com/series/300007160/tale-of-tails?start=true
https://theindiefest.com/winners-february-2021/
Graeme Finlayson (USA), Reason, Film Short, Ensemble Cast
Guo Xiang (China), Invisible Love, Art Direction
Harley Wallen (USA), Tale of Tails, Television – Program / Series
Iker Bilbao (Spain), The Last Wolves, Special Effects: Animation
Iouri Goroulev (Israel), The Book of Curses, Documentary Feature, Jewish
John Darbonne (USA), Companion, Actor: Supporting (Russell Shealy as Abner Finch)
Luis Ismael (USA), 1618, Film Feature, Jewish
Melanie de Klerk, Sophie Lui and Ron Coldham (Canada), Get Lost in Colombia, Web Series, Women Filmmakers
Nick Snow and Don Hatton, Dashford Studios (USA), Blacklight, Actor: Leading (Grant Lancaster as Danny), Film Feature
Nicola Rinciari (USA), The Pages of Destiny, Children / Family Programming (Student)