SeriesFest, the tv occasion in Denver, drew dozens of impartial creators over the previous few 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 quite a few the creators about their plans to breakthrough with their very own impartial initiatives.
Winners included Shazia Javed’s Potluck Women and Jesse Toledano’s Damaged Bogs, whereas Anna Camp-starring Neo-Dome, from Mark and Matt Pfeffer scooped the viewers award.
Potluck Women received the drama awards. It follows Sumaira, Azra, and Ruby, who reside in “The Wives Condos” within the suburbs of Toronto with their youngsters, 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 excellent lives, however when their fastidiously crafted facades crumble, they need to study to be susceptible and search one another’s assist.
Written and directed by Javed, the pilot stars Natasha Krishnan, Elisa Moolecherry and Kavita Musty.
On the comedy facet, 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 handle 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. In the course of the on a regular basis mundane, typically 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 type probably the most unlikely of musical trios and set off to make a demo file, all of the whereas Yossi navigates what it means to be a Hassidic Jew within the trendy world.
Elsewhere, Breakthrough, a documentary collection that explores how athletes face identification crises and despair, received the unscripted awards, The Haunting of Trisha Lozada received the Pitch-A-Thon, the Neo-Dome ensemble received the perfect efficiency and the viewers award for impartial pilot competitors for drama. The Boy Who Was Afraid of The whole lot received 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,” mentioned Randi Kleiner, CEO and Co-Founding father of SeriesFest. “With ten seasons below our belt, we’ve been capable of 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 yr’s winners symbolize the way forward for tv and we couldn’t be extra excited to have fun their success.”
