{"id":10558,"date":"2016-08-08T10:15:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T14:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/disney-channel-rolls-out-original-shorts-on-digital-platforms\/"},"modified":"2016-08-08T13:41:35","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T17:41:35","slug":"disney-channel-rolls-out-original-shorts-on-digital-platforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/disney-channel-rolls-out-original-shorts-on-digital-platforms\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney Channel Rolls Out Original Shorts on Digital Platforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BURBANK: <em>Free Period<\/em>, a collection of original short-form movies, has launched exclusively on Disney Channel digital platforms.<\/p>\n<p><em>Free Period<\/em> movies will roll out daily on the Disney Channel YouTube page through August 18. The 12 original short-form movies are also available on the Disney Channel app for mobile and connected TV devices.\u00a0The movies cover a range of genres, from comedy to mystery adventure.\u00a0They will feature Leo Howard (<em>Kickin&#8217; It<\/em>) and\u00a0<em>Teen Beach Movie<\/em>\u00a0alums\u00a0Garrett Clayton, Chrissie Fit, John Deluca and Mollee Gray, among others.<\/p>\n<p>The movies were created by actor Kent Boyd, choreographer Christopher Scott, and Imagen Award-winning director Francisco Lorite and producing partner Freddy Rodriguez. Additional\u00a0creators\u00a0include\u00a0Jonathan Langager (<em>Josephine and the Roach<\/em>), Joe Swanson (<em>Zombo<\/em>), Camille Stochitch (<em>Interstate<\/em>), Ryan Landels (<em>Jem and the Holograms<\/em>), John Swetnam (<em>Step Up All In<\/em>, <em>Into the Storm<\/em>), comedienne Dah\u00e9li Hall (<em>MADtv<\/em>), Viet Nguyen (<em>iZombie<\/em>)\u00a0and stunt coordinator Mitchell Gould (<em>Kickin&#8217; It<\/em>, <em>Gamer&#8217;s Guide to Pretty Much Everything<\/em>, <em>K.C. Undercover<\/em>), among others.<\/p>\n<p>Among the shorts featured in the collection is <em>Abby Normal<\/em>, which<em>\u00a0<\/em>tells the story of the titular character and her cousin Zoe as they set out on a secret mission to investigate their strange neighbor. <em>Arcanum<\/em>, meanwhile, looks on as a teen searches for a mystical artifact to save the world from\u00a0an ancient evil. In <em>Exchange<\/em>, a teenage girl suggests that she and her classmates spend a week at each other\u2019s houses when their study-abroad program is canceled.<\/p>\n<p>The short <em>Free Period<\/em> follows Kent, who allows his imagination to run wild with outrageous acts of randomness during his free period at school. In <em>Hamburger High<\/em>, Lisa Pizza, a slice of pepperoni pizza, navigates her way through high school. After a teen and her family move into a new house, she discovers it\u2019s full of ghosts who love to dance in <em>How to Catch a Ghost<\/em>. <em>Nelson Bixby Takes On the Whole Wide World<\/em> follows the titular 11-year-old as he gets unexpected assistance from the ghost of a famous Mexican wrestler named El Ni\u00f1o.<\/p>\n<p>Other shorts slated to debut as part of <em>Free Period<\/em> are <em>Nu Skool Records<\/em>, about a group of teens who launch their own record label on campus; <em>Parker and the Crew<\/em>, which sees kids band together to stop the neighborhood bullies from ruining their summer; <em>Penelope in the Treehouse<\/em>, about a girl who uses magic fertilizer on her treehouse and winds up among the clouds; <em>Trunk<\/em>, which follows two brothers who discover a trunk that transforms toys into real people; and <em>Virtual High<\/em>, about kids who attend school in a virtual world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BURBANK: Free Period, a collection of original short-form movies, has launched exclusively on Disney Channel digital platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":477,"featured_media":10560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[111,1611,1612,1207],"class_list":["post-10558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-disney-channel","tag-disney-channel-app","tag-free-period","tag-youtube","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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