This year’s Independent Television Festival announced its official selections today, with 22 selections in the Web Series category, 6 in the Web + Mobile category, and 24 in the Pilots category.
For the first time ever, web series outnumber television pilot selections in the festival. Even amongst the TV pilots, many of them are actually re-packaged web series like Octane Pistols of Fury, Ogden: The Inappropriate Yoga Guy, Palisades Pool Party, and We Are With the Band. “For a festival originally slated as a television festival, this is a pretty interesting divergence,” festival director AJ Tesler told us.
Several of the web series selections you’ll recognize are Streamy Awards nominated web series Anyone But Me, GOLD, Odd Jobs, and The Temp Life, and other familiar web series The Fall of Kaden, The Super Man, SOLO – The Series and A Good Knight’s Quest. “Some familiar faces. Some new ones,” commented Tesler; new ones to look out for are UCB Comedy’s Illuminati Brothers, Current TV’s Good Cop / Blank Cop, and the independently produced We Are With The Band Show. Here’s the complete list of 52 official selections:
Web Series
A Good Knight’s Quest
Anyone But Me
Cell: The Web Series
Concierge: The Series
GOLD
Good Cop / Blank Cop
Hamilton Carver: Zombie PI
Hot on the Red Carpet
Odd Jobs
Olga Kay’s Circus
PASSENGER
Quick Tip Couple
RHYME ANIMAL Web Series
SOLO – The Series
Squatters
Stoop Sale
The Ballad of Mary and Ernie
The Fall of Kaden
The Super Man
The Temp Life
the_source
Time Traveling Finger
Web+Mobile
Duncan & Me
Life Advice from Old People
Patrick and Molly and all the small things
Permanent Stakeout
Sometimesdaily Explorers
The Jon And Eddie Show
Pilots
15 Minutes
Axis
Birds Of A Feather
Choir Boys Motorcycle Club
Deal O’Neal
Finding My Magic
Four Angry Men: Billion Dollar Blood Trail
Going To Pot
Illuminati Brothers
LA Manzana
Octane Pistols of Fury
Off Campus
Ogden: The Inappropriate Yoga Guy
Palisades Pool Party
Souvenirs
Suck And Moan
The Dojo
The Geniuses
The Hairdos
The Scottish Ninjas
The Wine Guy Unplugged with Anthony Gilardi
Treasure Coast
Twenty Six Miles
We Are With The Band
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RE: Belman’s post: Why are they screening two year old web shows? Shouldn’t they have looked for new ones?
Answer: Yes, we love discovering new shows, but we ultimately only want to screen the best shows. Most of the judges and industry that screen & judge our shows have never seen or even heard of any of them which is always interesting to us, living and working as we do in the Web TV community. ITVFest is about showcasing new talent, but more importantly it’s about providing opportunity for discovery from the Hollywood industry. Even if your show has made its way around the internet, there’s always a little bit of added credibility when you have also been recognized by a reputable festival and that can go a long way in getting your show to the next level.
Psst. “Suck And Moan” is in the “web series” category…not in the “pilot” category. Just lettin’ you know…
And we couldn’t be more excited to be included in ITVFest with all of those strong shows!! Lookin’ forward to a great fest!!
We are super excited to have Scottish Ninjas be among the official animation selections. There are a lot of great looking pilots and web series in this festival. Btw, thanks for the direct link to our video page, tubefilter! We’s loves us the traffic! :-)
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