{"id":4568,"date":"2012-10-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/2012\/10\/29\/winners-selected-for-nytvf-development-deals\/"},"modified":"2012-10-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-29T00:00:00","slug":"winners-selected-for-nytvf-development-deals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/winners-selected-for-nytvf-development-deals\/","title":{"rendered":"Winners Selected for NYTVF Development Deals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">NEW YORK: The eighth annual New York Television Festival (NYTVF) has officially wrapped, with recipients having been selected for 19 development deals with such networks as IFC, A&amp;E and Syfy as well as with studios and digital platforms.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">From the NYTVF Pitch competition, the project <em>I Want a New Life<\/em>, created by Stephen Soroka and Will Bozarth, scored a development deal with Sundance Channel. The competition also saw deals for Red Arrow with <em>Barely Legal<\/em>, created by Kynan Griffin and Jason Faller; Bio with <em>Para-Not-So-Normal<\/em>, created by Nick Armstrong and Trevor Tevel; Channel 4 with <em>Celebrities Solving Crimes<\/em>, created by Melge Media; Hasbro Studios with&nbsp;<em>Buckle and Swatch<\/em>, created by Sarah Courtauld; Logo with&nbsp;<em>Burly Q&#8217;s<\/em>, created by Carrie Preston and Daisy 3 Pictures; and truTV with <em>Lords of the Land: NYC<\/em>, created by Frank Mosca.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">FOX held a contest for aspiring TV writers to submit a script for an original half-hour comedy. The winner was <em>Here to Stay<\/em>, from Andrew Shafer.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">A&amp;E and Lifetime participated in the festival to find original unscripted TV concepts. The winner of the A&amp;E Unscripted Development pipeline was <em>Private Eyes<\/em>, originally titled <em>Deadbeats<\/em>, from Frank Mosca, John Morena, Stephen Franciosa Jr. and Vinny Parco. The finalists for the Lifetime Development Pipeline are <em>American Bombshells<\/em>, from Steven Ryan; <em>Cake Lush to the Stars<\/em>, from Cee French Harth, Paul Harth and Jeff Schubert; <em>Comediennes<\/em>, from Tim Paul; <em>Junk Mom<\/em>, from Pat Taggart; and <em>Ladies on the Loose<\/em>, from Jenn Dlgos and Andrea Henry.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">IFC&#8217;s Out of the Box Award went to <em>Hamsters<\/em>, from Damian Lanigan. MTV signed a comedy development deal for <em>Galaxy Comics<\/em>, from Kevin McMullin and Jacey Heldrich. The Syfy Imagine Greater Award was given to <em>Time Trials<\/em>, from Lee Jordan and Clay Lapari. VH1 gave its Theory of Creativity honor to <em>Actors Anonymous<\/em>, from Rene Ashton. The Amazon Studios Audience Award went to <em>Captain Cornelius Cartoon&#8217;s Cartoon Lagoon<\/em>, from Manny Galan.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">The Samsung Second Screen Storytellers Challenge was held for the first time. From the five finalists, <em>D-TEC<\/em>, from&nbsp;Joseph Saroufim, Peter Saroufim and Stephen Interrante, was the winner.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">&ldquo;We launched our first 2012 development initiative during the 2011 Festival and in the year since, we&#8217;ve seen growth across the board&mdash;from the number of industry participants attending the Festival and partners committing to development options, to a jump in both submission opportunities offered and artists creating projects for our competitions,&rdquo; said NYTVF founder and executive director Terence Gray. &ldquo;It&#8217;s been a banner year for the organization and we are indebted to our terrific partners and extremely talented creative community for their commitment to the independent television movement.&rdquo;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK: The eighth annual New York Television Festival (NYTVF) has officially wrapped, with recipients having been selected for 19 development deals with such networks as IFC, A&amp;E and Syfy as well as with studios and digital platforms.&nbsp; From the NYTVF Pitch competition, the project I Want a New Life, created by Stephen Soroka and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-top-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Winners Selected for NYTVF Development Deals<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Winners Selected for NYTVF Development Deals. 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