Read on Deadline.com SERIESFEST: SEASON 10 ANNOUNCES OFFICIAL SELECTIONS FOR INTERNATIONAL INDEPENDENT PILOT COMPETITION WITH OVER 45 ENTRIES FROM AROUND THE WORLD Denver, Colorado – April 3, 2024 – SeriesFest,…
Read MoreRead on Deadline.com SERIESFEST: SEASON 10 ANNOUNCES OFFICIAL SELECTIONS FOR INTERNATIONAL INDEPENDENT PILOT COMPETITION WITH OVER 45 ENTRIES FROM AROUND THE WORLD Denver, Colorado – April 3, 2024 – SeriesFest,…
Read MoreRead on Deadline.com SERIESFEST UNVEILS EXCITING LINEUP FOR MILESTONE SEASON 10, MAY 1-5, DENVER, COLORADO Minnie Driver, Jane Seymour, Mark Duplass, Jocko Sims, Ari Wallach, Alysia Reiner, Patrick Macmanus, James…
Read MoreRead on Variety.comRead on Deadline.com SERIESFEST SEASON 10 GEARS UP FOR A MEMORABLE FIVE DAYS IN DENVER, COLORADO, MAY 1-5 JZ’S TOUR DJ, DJ YOUNG GURU, HEADLINES AT RED ROCKS…
Read MoreThe multifaceted partnership will connect entertainment creators with resources, education and opportunities to connect with industry visionaries Daveed Diggs, Rafael Casal, Sue Ann Pien, Patrick Macmanus, and Kelly Funke. December 1,…
Read MoreSeriesFest, Second City Film School and IFA Chicago are proud to present the 2nd Pitch-A-Thon! Roadshow: Chicago. (With additional support from United for Business, Littleton Road Productions, Wana Brands, and…
Read MoreCheck out the photos from SeriesFest: Season 10, Episode 5 (May 5, 2024)
Read the ArticleMost people, after having the marathon couple of months that Shondaland Creative Partner Betsy Beers has had, would take some time off to unwind. While it’s normal for the self-described “Eveready Bunny” to hop from one thing to the next without pause, the past few months have required an especially large amount of stamina: going to Denver in May to accept a well-earned Impact in Television Award at the TV symposium SeriesFest and then to New York weeks later for the global premiere of the third season of Bridgerton, as well as the London premiere soon after that, along with the day-to-day demands of being half of the top TV team in Hollywood, alongside Shonda Rhimes.
Read the ArticleSeriesFest is a non-profit organization that champions and empowers artists at the forefront of episodic storytelling. Each year, they host a one-of-a-kind television series festival, which features up-and-coming work and their makers screening alongside industry leaders in discussion about the television and streaming industry. Here’s our Managing Director Amanda Needham’s top five takeaways from the event.
Read the ArticleShelby Blake Bartelstein jokes that she’s a “recovering actor” whose “gateway drug” was musicals in junior high. Her passions have served her well, though: The Chicago native went from the theater to applying that same spunky, eccentric outlook to commercials for some of the world’s biggest brands. One of her projects, “I Can’t Wait to Wash My Face: The Musical!,” from Olay, went viral and made its TV debut on the 2018 MTV VMAs.
Read the ArticleAshley Michel Hoban serves as the showrunner of ‘Dr. Death’ on Peacock, and we had the opportunity to speak with her about season two of the show, before its release in December of 2023. As luck would have it, Ashley was in attendance at SeriesFest this year for a pair of panels, giving us the opportunity and honor of speaking with Ashley again, to follow-up with her regarding the show, now that season two is on the airwaves.
Read the ArticlePitch-a-Thon Presented by SeriesFest
Friday, June 14 at 3:30 p.m. / Fermentation Hall at The Momentary
Five filmmakers with selections at the 2024 Bentonville Film Festival will participate in an exclusive live pitch session with top television, new media and digital professionals in hopes of moving their projects – and careers – forward. Panelists include Lisa Ann Walter (Actor/Producer/Comic), Sarah Minnie (Head of Artist Development + Production, OTV), Erich C. Smith (Agent, TCA), Elias Plagianos (Writer/Director), and moderator Claire Taylor (Director of Programming, SeriesFest). Filmmakers pitching include Sylvester Folks, Set Hernandez, Cynthia Kao, Liann Kaye and Gabriella Moses.
Shondaland was heavy in the house at SeriesFest, an immersive annual five-day festival in Denver, Colorado, devoted to celebrating television and the brilliant minds who make it. Now in its 10th year, SeriesFest showed a lot of love to Shondaland, a longtime supporter of the conference, with a big honor for executive producer Betsy Beers, as well as a very cool mentorship award to up-and-coming director Shelby Blake Bartelstein, who’ll now get to visit the set of an undisclosed Shondaland show to shadow a director.
Read the ArticleCheck out the recap from SeriesFest: Season 10! Now on YouTube.
Watch VideoThe ninth annual SeriesFest recently took place in Denver, Colorado, where I attended the event for the first time.
A celebration of episodic TV, the festival gathers creators and fans for several days of screenings, workshops and more.
I was there to moderate a discussion after the screening of the “Peak TV” episode of CNN’s new limited series, “The 2010s.”
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