{"id":26106,"date":"2023-10-15T09:40:31","date_gmt":"2023-10-15T13:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2.worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/worldscreen.com\/"},"modified":"2023-10-15T11:55:42","modified_gmt":"2023-10-15T15:55:42","slug":"winner-selected-for-mipjunior-pitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/winner-selected-for-mipjunior-pitch\/","title":{"rendered":"Winner Selected for MIPJunior Pitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Adventures of Team Pom<\/em> was chosen as the winner of this year&#8217;s MIPJunior Pitch, spotlighting programs for kids 6 to 12.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Adventures of Team Pom<\/em> from Canada&#8217;s Wind Sun Sky Entertainment brings to life the world of a misfit trio who form an unbreakable bond of friendship as Queens\u2019 worst synchronized swim team. It comes from Filipina illustrator Isabel Roxas and is described as\u00a0<em>Scooby-Doo\u00a0<\/em>meets\u00a0<em>The Royal Tenenbaums<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The project beat out four other pitches:<\/p>\n<p><em>Flora<\/em> from Birdo in Brazil is an animated series that follows a main character, a young seed, who is determined to learn every plant skill she can find\u2014from growing thorns to flying with the wind to floating on water. Her friends and cohabitants are all part of the plant world.<\/p>\n<p><em>Andy Wants to Be Famous<\/em> from Cosmic Productions and France tv distribution is set in the seemingly ordinary town of Bamville, where the optimistic Andy and his friends are convinced that even the most mundane situation can turn out to be exceptional. It centers on a theme of social media and a kid who wants to become a successful influencer.<\/p>\n<p>From the U.K.\u2019s KMTV, <em>Kidz on Climate<\/em> aims to make children&#8217;s voices heard by empowering them to go beyond the headlines and explore for themselves the changing world around them. The climate correspondents are part of a competition series, rewarding the best report.<\/p>\n<p><em>Wild Skies<\/em> from Ireland&#8217;s Studio Meala is set in Wild Skies Podunk, the worst-performing airport\u2014run by animals, for animals\u2014in the Wild Skies chain, and centers on Shawn the fawn, its newest employee. The workplace comedy has a 2D hand-drawn animation style.<\/p>\n<p>The jury featured Edward Barnieh, VP of development at BBC Studios; Yuanchang Sun, director of international co-production and IP investment for kids at China\u2019s Alibaba-Youku; Rick Clodfelter, executive director of content acquisitions and partnerships at Disney Branded Television; and Kerstin Viehbach, commissioning lead for kids fiction at Super RTL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Adventures of Team Pom was chosen as the winner of this year&#8217;s MIPJunior Pitch, spotlighting programs for kids 6 to 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":26107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[8568,8569,8570,8571,2088,8572,8573,8574,8575,8576,7831],"class_list":["post-26106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-andy-wants-to-be-famous","tag-birdo","tag-cosmic-productions","tag-flora","tag-france-tv-distribution","tag-kidz-on-climate","tag-kmtv","tag-studio-meala","tag-the-adventures-of-team-pom","tag-wild-skies","tag-wind-sun-sky-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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