Web Series Outnumber Pilots in 2010 ITVFest Selections

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

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