Program to Provide Official Artists with Additional Opportunities to Win Guaranteed Development Deals

NYTVF Pitch is a new initiative launching at this year’s Festival, with Sundance Channel, MSN and SevenOne International signed on as inaugural Pitch Partners. Each will guarantee a development deal for an outstanding pitch from NYTVF’s 2011 class of Official Artists.

Each Pitch Partner will provide the NYTVF with a creative brief, outlining development goals and the types of pitches they are interested in, which will in turn be distributed to all 2011 Official Artists – individuals that are named a finalist in any of the NYTVF’s 2011 development initiatives or as an Official Selection in the Festival’s Independent Pilot Competition (IPC). NYTVF Pitch semifinalists will be selected from the submitted pitches, and those individuals will meet with development executives from each of the partner companies on-site at the 2011 Festival.

MSN, a longtime Festival partner and sponsor of its annual Digital Day, will join new development partners SevenOne International and Sundance Channel, all of which are seeking new show ideas for consideration. SevenOne International, the distribution house of Red Arrow Entertainment Group, is NYTVF’s first international development partner. Red Arrow combines a dynamic and growing group of international television production companies with powerful creative partnerships, alongside SevenOne International.

“These three partners represent a tremendous breadth of content needs and development goals and the Official Artists participating in the Festival are at the very top of the NYTVF creative community. We believe this program will provide yet another avenue for industry partners to engage the NYTVF’s artistic community to uncover great new ideas and talent and look forward to the inaugural program at this year’s Fest.” – Terence Gray, NYTVF Founder and Executive Director

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The NYTVF is thrilled to announce that ABC Studios, Hallmark Channel and United Talent Agency are joining previously announced FX as first-time partners in 2011. Each of these partners will have access to all of the official selections from the IPC in the weeks leading up to the Festival, as well as the opportunity to participate in NYTVF Executive Access.

Launched in 2010, Executive Access is a program designed to not only put the independent content showcased at the Festival in the hands of network, agency and studio executives with which the NYTVF partners, but also serve as a mechanism for those decision makers to interact with the creators during the event, in meetings facilitated by Festival organizers.

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