Peterson's independent film, "Backroad Motel", a nine story anthology featuring various dregs, druggies, and the doomed inhabiting a dingy motel room somewhere along Route 66, caught the attention of Jonathan Taplin, producer of, among other films, Martin Scorsese's "Mean Streets". Taplin transformed "Backroad Motel" into one of the Internet's first "webisodes" by premiering the nine stories on his own technologically groundbreaking Video on Demand website, Intertainer.