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CONTENTS:
Thank You From the NYTVF Staff
Winner of the NYTVF People’s Choice Award Announced
Winner of the Fox Comedy Script Contest Announced
Independent Pilot Competition Winners Announced at the 2008 NYTVF Awards
Reality TV Pilots Featuring the Winners of the Procter & Gamble Productions Flying Solo Contest Premiere at the NYTVF
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Dear Friends,
--The 2008 New York Television Festival was a tremendous success. The staff of the NYTVF would like to thank all artists, sponsors, partners, and attendees for making this year’s Festival our biggest and best yet! Soon, we will begin planning for 2009, and we hope that you will continue to support the independent television movement.
--NYTVF People’s Choice Award Winner
Voted by popular choice at Festival screenings, the 2008 NYTVF People’s Choice Award for Best Pilot was presented to New York City-based pilot-maker Jim Garvey for “Teachers.” Featuring American Idol finalist Constantine Maroulis, Broadway stars Katherine Holland (Wicked) and Sarah Litzinger (Beauty and the Beast), and The Food Network’s Noah Starr, “Teachers” is a sitcom detailing the experiences of a fresh-faced teacher getting an education of his own from jaded colleagues and eccentric supervisors at a suburban public school. For the first time in the 35 year history of the People's Choice Awards, one of the prestigious crystal statue awards was handed out in a venue other than the annual January awards show.
Replacing the Audience Award at this year's New York Television Festival, the signature award honored the favorite submission in the Independent Pilot Competition.
-- FOX Comedy Script Contest Winner
The comedy pilot “Selling Hell” was named the winner of the FOX-NYTVF Comedy Script Contest. As part of this distinction, Mike Maloney will receive $25,000 and a development deal with Fox Broadcasting Company. The script follows a divorced couple whose relationship is further strained when they are forced to become employees in Hell’s marketing department.
-- The NYTVF Awards ceremony also featured the world premiere of two pilots created as part of the Procter & Gamble Productions Flying Solo TV Pilot Contest. The two winners of the contest, Blaire Byhower and Hannah Friedman, starred in and helped produce separate reality pilots about their lives during the summer after their college graduation. The two pilots will debut at the NYTVF before getting digital distribution on Lifetime’s Web site at www.mylifetime.com.
-- NYTVF IPC Winners
The 2008 Independent Pilot Competition featured 36 pilots in a wide variety of television genres. This year’s “NYTVF Awards” were presented to pilots and pilot-makers in the following categories:
Best Comedy Pilot: “Below the Law”
Created by: Dan Levy and Steve Basilone (Los Angeles, CA)
Two brothers turn to vigilante justice when they are informed that they have to wait a year for their acceptance to the police academy to take effect.
Best Drama Pilot: “Hit Factor”
Created by: Jamie Rosenblatt and Neil Hopkins (Los Angeles, CA)
Three struggling actors moonlight as industry hit men in the hopes of boosting their stagnant careers.
Best Family Pilot: “The Kitty Landers Show”
Created by: Chris Potocki, Regina Taufen, and Anna Christopher (Venice Beach, CA)
Kitty and her eclectic band of friends teach each other lessons about life and have lots of fun doing it.
Best Nonscripted Pilot: “The Road”
Created by: Frank Mosca and Mike DeStefano (Bronx, NY)
Stand-up comedian Mike DeStefano travels the road to recovery from his personal demons and shares his insight and wit with others who have had similar experiences.
Best Animation Pilot: “Tickle Me Silly”
Created by: Miguel Martinez-Joffre (Jersey City, NJ)
The young raccoon sheriff, Raul Rattatan, and his lovable sidekick, Deputy Pancho the Warthog, quest to stop the notorious El Pinto and his tickling crime spree.
Best Web Series Pilot: “The Prisoner”
Created by: Karin Williams (New York City, NY)
A dramatic microseries, designed for the web and mobile devices, exploring the limits of personal freedom in the context of a global war on terror.
Best Actor: Nick Offerman
“The Department”
The Psychology Department at the University of Chicago is turned upside down after a series of violent patient outbursts causes the dean to bring in a violence expert.
Best Actress: Regina Taufen
“The Kitty Landers Show”
Kitty and her eclectic band of friends teach each other lessons about life and have lots of fun doing it.
Best Nonscripted Host or Star: Bill Rampley for “Bill Rampley’s Southern Comfort”
(Atlanta, GA)
Host Bill Rampley takes to the road and uncovers a real south that isn’t lacking in history or southern hospitality.
Best Writing: Timothy Nash, Hayden Grubb and Lucas Crandles
“Wentworth and Buxbury”
Wentworth and Buxbury are two young, charismatic, but nonetheless unfathomably evil supervillains-in-training with a healthy mutual disdain for one another.
Best Directing: Jon Pivko
“The Triboro”
The lives of two suburban teens are changed forever during a routine cup run in the middle of a huge house party.
Outside the Box Award: “Food Party”
The ‘Outside the Box’ Award is a new award given to the most innovative or genre-expanding pilot in competition.
A cooking show featuring a spicy Saigon kitchen-witch as the hostess, a cast of unruly puppets as culinary advisors, and a cavalcade of surprise dinner guests.
The NYTVF extends congratulations to all producers, writers, and content creators whose work was featured at the NYTVF. We would not be able to have a Festival without your had work and considerable talents.
For more information, please visit www.nytvf.com
Regards,
--NYTVF
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