Craig Brewer to Shoot $5 Cover Webisodes

Craig Brewer, director of Hustle & Flow, is working on a project called $5 Cover that will include rapper Al Kapone and more generally promote Memphis talent:

"A planned series of 15 inter-linked short films (roughly eight minutes each) involving people and places in the Midtown Memphis music scene, $5 Cover will be seen online and via other new media outlets..."

"The series of partly scripted, interconnected “webisodes” will each focus on a local musician playing a slightly fictionalized version of themselves, with each installment also built around a particular song by that artist..."

"The 15 episodes will all occur within the same semi-fictional world, with characters overlapping and with a few non-musician local actors playing entirely fictional characters."

Really interesting idea.

Click through for the names of the other musicians, actors and filmmakers involved as well as for background cause Brewer's been scheming this for years.  No website as of yet.