SeriesFest, the tv occasion in Denver, drew dozens of impartial creators over the previous couple of days and has now handed out some awards for its pilot competitors.
Some 45 pilots from around the globe have been in competitors on the tenth iteration of the competition.
Verify again later this week to listen to from various the creators about their plans to breakthrough with their very own impartial initiatives.
Winners included Shazia Javed’s Potluck Girls and Jesse Toledano’s Damaged Bogs, whereas Anna Camp-starring Neo-Dome, from Mark and Matt Pfeffer scooped the viewers award.
Potluck Girls gained the drama awards. It follows Sumaira, Azra, and Ruby, who stay in “The Wives Condos” within the suburbs of Toronto with their kids, whereas their husbands work in different international locations. They initially meet at potluck lunches, a weekly guilt-free escape from the loneliness of immigrant life. At first look, they appear to be residing good lives, however when their rigorously crafted facades crumble, they have to be taught to be weak and search one another’s help.
Written and directed by Javed, the pilot stars Natasha Krishnan, Elisa Moolecherry and Kavita Musty.
On the comedy aspect, Toledano wrote and directed Damaged Bogs, which stars Luzer Twersky and Dede Lovelace. It tells the story of Yossi Klein, a younger Hassidic man, tasked to care for his father-in-law’s buildings in a low-income, largely black outer borough of NYC. However Yossi has a secret – he loves hip hop. Throughout the on a regular basis mundane, usually absurd duties that come together with property administration, he meets two tenants – younger aspiring hip hop artists, DiAndra “Dee” Jones and Kevin Randolph. Collectively they kind essentially the most unlikely of musical trios and set off to make a demo report, all of the whereas Yossi navigates what it means to be a Hassidic Jew within the trendy world.
Elsewhere, Breakthrough, a documentary sequence that explores how athletes face id crises and despair, gained the unscripted awards, The Haunting of Trisha Lozada gained the Pitch-A-Thon, the Neo-Dome ensemble gained the very best efficiency and the viewers award for impartial pilot competitors for drama. The Boy Who Was Afraid of Every little thing gained the viewers award for comedy.
“Our Unbiased Pilot Competitors embodies the very essence of SeriesFest and aligns with our core mission – to champion impartial artists,” stated Randi Kleiner, CEO and Co-Founding father of SeriesFest. “With ten seasons underneath our belt, we’ve been in a position to set up a platform for showcasing up-and-coming creators, offering them with an outlet to amplify their voices and share their initiatives with business executives, established on-screen expertise and below-the-line creatives. This 12 months’s winners characterize the way forward for tv and we couldn’t be extra excited to have a good time their success.”
