SeriesFest
A Celebration of Episodic Storytelling
SeriesFest: Season 11—It’s the pilot program that started it all!
Headed into its eleventh season, SeriesFest’s Independent Pilot Competition provides a platform for the most innovative drama, comedy, and animated pilots out there ranging from 18 to 60 minutes.
SeriesFest: Season 11—It’s the pilot program that started it all!
Comedy pilots that challenge television’s status quo are our bread and butter. This competition provides a platform for funny, irreverent, thought provoking, and playful episodic content—live action or animated—between 18 and 60 minutes.
SeriesFest: Season 11—Colorado has so much to offer storytellers from mountains, cityscape, to a stand out creative community. For Season 11, SeriesFest is excited to focus the signature Pilots in Progress program to support our home state creatives. Colorado Pilots in Progress offers an opportunity for Colorado creators to securely screen a rough cut of their pilot for constructive feedback from fellow creators and industry to help fine tune and finalize their project. Selected creators will work with the SeriesFest team to construct a personalized post-screening feedback questionnaire. Viewers will complete an audience questionnaire for the creator to review and, at their discretion, incorporate into a final edit or future episodes.
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SeriesFest: Season 11—Each season, the Pitch-A-Thon! highlights the art of the pitch with a live event* where content creators participate in an exclusive live and in person pitch session. Selected Creators have 5 minutes to pitch to a panel of television experts, in front of an audience. Pitched projects must be strictly in the script phase (un-produced).
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SeriesFest and Shondaland are honored to partner on our sixth cycle of the Women Directing Mentorship, a competition designed to discover aspiring female directors with a unique voice and provide a launchpad for their careers. Founded in 2019, The Women Directing Mentorship is anchored by the prestigious opportunity to shadow a director on an episode of a Shondaland original series.
Read MoreActor and Producer (Stay Ahead Media) Jocko Sims visits Denver Colorado for a panel on Black representation in medicine. Watch to learn more.
Watch VideoDENVER — Actor Jocko Sims and Dr. Nia Schwann Mitchell joined forces at SeriesFest: Season 10, an annual TV festival in Denver to participate in a panel on the importance of Black doctors.
The event included a screening of the TV show “New Amsterdam” followed by a panel discussion on representation in medicine on the big screen and in real life medical settings.
Sims, who played Dr. Floyd Reynolds on the show “New Amsterdam,” said the role taught him about the impact he can have on future generations who watch the show and see a Black man playing the role of a doctor.
“Being on New Amsterdam, I had parents reach out to me to say, ‘Thank you for the role that you’ve played… My Black son or daughter now want to be doctors because of Dr. Reynolds.’ And that was very inspirational,” Sims said. “I think it was about that time where I started to realize, well, this show and this role that I have is making a greater impact than I realized. And I started to look and I started to learn about the disparities in health care.”
Sims said those disparities recently hit close to home.
Read the ArticleSeriesFest is thrilled to announce award winners for Season 10!
Read the ArticleInternational television festival and non-profit organization SeriesFest revealed the winners of its Season 10 Independent Pilot Competition at an awards presentation on Sunday in Denver, capping off the 2024 event. Jurors screened 45 pilots from creative voices around the globe at this year’s milestone celebration and selected winners in categories including “Independent Pilot,” which receives $25K in-kind post production support from Company 3, “Digital Short Series,” “Late Night” and “Pitch-A-Thon.”
Read the ArticleAll weekend long tv-stars filled Denver for ‘SeriesFest!’
It’s a nonprofit and international festival celebrating the art of independent TV series creation.
It’s a chance to learn about and see new shows, meet the best talent in the tv industry and so much more.
This year, series fest celebrated 10 years and GDC’s Spencer Thomas had a chance to check it out over the weekend and chat with some of the iconic cast of Grey’s Anatomy.
For the past five years, Beers, alongside Shondaland founder Shonda Rhimes and Head of Creative Production Tom Verica, have partnered with SeriesFest to offer on-the-rise female directors the opportunity to shadow Shondaland productions with the Women Directing Mentorship (…) As for the SeriesFest leadership team, they have nothing but praise for Beers and her Shondaland team, as they continue to work together with the Women Directing Mentorship program, which was awarded this year to writer/director Shelby Blake Bartelstein.
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