Transmedia project wins pitch comp
Roy Weiland’s children’s transmedia project Barton The Ghost Catcher has won the Metro Screen Pitch and will represent Metro Screen at the national pitching competition at SPAA Fringe next month.
The winner at SPAA Fringe competition will then compete as one of only two finalists at the SPAA Conference in November. This winner will receive an airfare to Cannes or a TV market in 2011, a $1,500 cash prize and free registration to the 2011 SPAA Conference.
In Barton…, when a class weirdo is tormented by ghosts, he feels that things could not get worse until he finds out he is the only person who can stop them and save the world.
The second place ($1,500 in-kind hire and post-production Metro Screen subsidy) went to Julie Noever with the feature documentary The Kingdom, while the third spot ($1,000 in-kind hire and post-production Metro Screen subsidy) was for Maria Tran’s feature doco Quest for Jackie Chan.
The highly commended projects were Rick Viede’s transmedia program All the Way with Glace, and Brianna O’Donohues animated TV sitcom Godsville.
