

The series itself was released under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Creative Commons license and is distributed for free in collaboration with VODO, as with Bernhard's previous independent film The Lionshare, over the Internet including peer-to-peer networks. The pilot episode was filmed on a budget of $6,000, raised in advance using Kickstarter.


Downloaded more than 3,730,000 times since May 2012 and winner for Best Drama Pilot at the 2010 New York Television Festival, the show was independently produced and financed by viewer donations. Pioneer One is a serialized drama produced and distributed online through VODO and the DISCO network.
