2014 Independent Pilot Competition Awards
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“Best of the Fest”: Dispatch |
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NYTVF Audience Award: The Neighborhood |
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NYTVF Critics Award: Witnesses |
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Best Comedy Pilot: Cowards |
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Best Drama or Dramedy Pilot: Dispatch |
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Best Web Series: Annie Undocumented |
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Best Unscripted Pilot: Love Spitters |
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Best Actress: Caroline Fox This Old Thing (Los Angeles, CA) |
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Best Actor: Chris Mast Go, Bolivia, Go! (Los Angeles, CA) |
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Best Directing: David Eisenberg Witnesses (Queens, NY) |
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Best Editor: Matt VanDaniker The Neighborhood (Queens, NY) |
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Best Writing: Sean Skelton Trouble (New York, NY) |
Descriptions and trailers for all IPC selections can be found below.
2014 Official Selections
The New York Television Festival is proud to announce the following 62 Official Selections to the 2014 Independent Pilot Competition.
The pilots selected for this year’s IPC represent talented writers, producers and actors from across the U.S. – including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Austin, New Orleans and Denver, as well as a record ten international selections from the UK and Australia.
Additionally, they feature a number of names, faces, and voices recognizable to TV fans, including Michael K Williams (The Wire, Boardwalk Empire), Carrie Preston (The Good Wife, True Blood), Pete Holmes (The Pete Holmes Show), Malcolm McDowell (Franklin & Bash, A Clockwork Orange), Janet Varney (Burning Love, The Legend of Korra), Robert Englund (A Nightmare on Elm Street), André Holland (The Knick), Zandy Hartig (Childrens Hospital), Scott Evans (One Live to Live), Eisa Davis (Hart of Dixie), Jim O'Heir (Parks and Recreation), Samantha Smith (Supernatural), Jim Meskimen (The Boondocks), Dennis Coard (Home and Away), Jamie Lee (Girl Code), and Kel Mitchell (Kenan & Kel).
Individual pilots, including trailers where available, are below.

BFE (Animated Comedy) |
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Distraction Team (Animated Comedy) |
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Future Duck! (Adult Animated Comedy) |
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NWAR (Animated Detective Comedy) |

Apartment Guy (Workplace Sitcom) |
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Assassins in Love (Sitcom) |
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BLEAK (Comedy) |
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The Brothel (Workplace Comedy) |
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The Come Up (Comedy) |
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CosmoNots (Comedy) |
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Cowards (Sitcom) |
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Gary Saves the Graveyard (Comedy) |
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Giving Up (Dark Comedy) |
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Go, Bolivia, Go! (Period Spy Comedy) |
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Hot Fail (Sitcom) |
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Hunter n Hornet (Satirical Comedy) |
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Jacques (High School Comedy) |
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The Jamz (Comedy) |
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Kid Farm (Mockumentary) |
Larpers (Comedy) |
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Lazy Me (Single Camera Comedy) |
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Married, For Real?! (Sitcom) |
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Mizz Miraculous (Dark Musical Comedy) |
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The Neighborhood (Character Sitcom) |
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Newsers (Workplace Comedy) |
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O, the Ennui (Comedy) |
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Off the Record (Workplace Sitcom) |
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Rain on Film (Romantic Comedy) |
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Scott's Lookalikes (Mockumentary Spoof) |
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Small Doses (Romantic Comedy) |
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Space Drifters (Space Sitcom) |
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Think Tank (Workplace Sitcom) |
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This Old Thing (Dark Buddy-Comedy) |
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Today's Special (Coming-of-Age Comedy) |
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Twinzies (Comedy) |
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Unconventional (Ensemble Sitcom) |
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Unidentified (Sci-Fi Comedy) |
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Union County's Own (Ensemble Sitcom) |

Annie Undocumented (High School Dramedy) |
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Bad Ambulance (Psychological Horror Thriller) |
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Called to Serve (Coming-of-Age Dramedy) |
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The Carrier (Dramatic Sci-Fi Mystery) |
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Compromised (Drama Mystery Thriller) |
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Cyber Vice (Procedural Drama) |
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Dispatch (Dramedy) |
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The Fight Room (Sci-Fi Action Thriller) |
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Near Death (Medical Thriller) |
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thE rEAsOn (Situation Dramedy) |
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Recorded Lives (Family Drama) |
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Sanitarium (Psychological Horror Thriller) |
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Trouble (Dramedy) |
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The Wake (Sci-Fi Drama) |
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Whatever Linda (Ponzi Scheme Dramedy) |
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Witnesses (Drama Thriller) |

Better Than the Rest (Game Show) |
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Dare2Draw (Competition Game Show) |
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Jones Sweet Ass TV Pitch (Spoof Reality) |
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Love Spitters (Dating Game Show) |
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Man Scout (Docu-Reality Comedy) |
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Man vs. Feelings (Comedy Docu-Series) |
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Our Mysterious World (Investigative Docu-Series) |
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Secret Studio (Game Show) |