2024 Official Selections

Independent TV Pilot Winners

Best Pilot

SWIPE NYC

Created by: Sue Zarco Kramer

A newly divorced, empty nester throws herself into the vulnerable and sexy world of online dating. Each date serves as a metaphor for picking up the pieces of her life and regaining her sense of sexuality, empowerment, and independence.

Best Comedy

THE LADIES

Created by: Juliana Piscina

Tracy, an ex-high school basketball star, returns to coach at her alma mater, but the program isn't what it used to be – only two players have signed up. Tracy, alongside quirky girls Emma and Rita, must restore the program to it's former glory... or just win one game.

Best Drama

THE SESSIONS

Created by: Al Julian & Vince Eisenson

Based on the real experiences of screenwriter Al Julian who led group therapy sessions for murderers in a psychiatric facility. When a new therapist joins the prison’s group sessions he triggers explosive reactions from the volatile gathering of sociopaths.

Best Sketch Comedy

TYPICAL DAN PETERSON STUFF

Created by: Josh Long, Scott Kruse & Kurt Quinn

This sketch comedy pilot hails from seasoned Groundlings performers and features irreverent and off-the-wall sketches about office-hunting in Los Angeles, the perfect fix-it product, a vaudeville performance for the ages, and a Breaking News program concerning an out-of-control Benedict Cumberbatch.

TV Pilot Script Winners

Winner

SHARK

Written by: Gregory Abbey

In the gritty NYC of the 1980s, Quinn Sullivan, a self-destructive 18 year old pool prodigy grapples with a traumatic childhood with her schizophrenic father to become the number one women's pool player in the world.

Shark Script

Winner

BACKWOODS CHIEF

Written by: Heidi-Marie Ferren

An obsessive FBI agent returns to her hometown bordering a Native reservation to care for her ailing mother. She's offered the position of Police Chief in Gentry, Arkansas and gets to work solving a murder case that has personal ramifications.

Backwoods Chief Script

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