NYTVF Announces 2012 Development Award Winners

Deals from A&E, Fox, IFC, Lifetime, MTV, Syfy, VH1, others given to 19 receipients

By Andrea Morabito -- Broadcasting & Cable, 10/27/2012 9:00:00 PM

The New York Television Festival wrapped up Saturday night by announcing the recipients of 19 development deals from its TV network, studio and digital partners.

Recipients of development deals from NYTVF Pitch Partners were as follows: Sundance Channel: I Want A New Life created by Stephen Soroka and Will Bozarth (New York, NY); Red Arrow International: Barely Legal created by Kynan Griffin and Jason Faller (Provo, UT); BIO Channel: Para-Not-So-Normal created by Nick Armstrong and Trevor Tevel (Los Angeles, CA); Channel 4: Celebrities Solving Crimes created by Melge Media (Brooklyn, NY); Hasbro Studios: Buckle and Swash created by Sarah Courtauld (London, UK); Logo: Burly Q's created by Carrie Preston and Daisy 3 Pictures (New York, NY); and truTV: Lords of the Land: NYC created by Frank Mosca (City Island, NY).

Here to Stay from Andrew Shafer (New York, NY) won the fifth annual Fox-NYTVF comedy script contest for $25,000 and a development deal. Private Eyes (originally titled Deadbeats) from Frank Mosca, John Morena, Stephen Franciosa Jr., and Vinny Parco (New York, NY) won the second annual A&E unscripted development pipeline and a $10,000 prize.

Lifetime selected five finalists for its unscripted development pipeline: American Bombshells from Steven Ryan (New York, NY); Cake Lush to the Stars from Cee French Harth, Paul Harth and Jeff Schubert (New York, NY); Comediennes from Tim Paul (Chicago, IL); Junk Mom from Pat Taggart (Philadelphia, PA); and Ladies on the Loose from Jenn Dlugos and Andrea Henry (Boston, MA).

Winners of the 2012 Independent Pilot Competition sponsored awards were: IFC "Out of the Box" Award: Hamsters from Damian Lanigan (Brooklyn, NY); MTV Comedy Development Deal: Galaxy Comics from Kevin McMullin and Jacey Heldrich (New York, NY); Syfy "Imagine Greater" Award: Time Trials from Lee Jordan and Clay Lapari (Los Angeles, CA); VH1 "Theory of Creativity" Award: Actors Anonymous from René Ashton (Studio City, CA); and Amazon Studios Audience Award: Captain Cornelius Cartoon's Cartoon Lagoon from Manny Galán (New York, NY).

Additional IPC award winner as well as descriptions and trailers for all IPC selections can be found here.