Success Stories

In addition to the meetings and relationships that all are basically guaranteed to come out of the festival, the following is just a sampling of some of the exciting things that have happened for people after being a part of the Independent Television festival

• Laurent Touil-Tartour signed as a director with Michael Bay's Company, The Institute.
• NBC commissioned a script form This Is My Friend, Audience Award Winner
• Jeremy Konner, Eric Edelstein, and Jake Johnson all signed with UTA and 3 Arts
• Lucas Crandles and Timoth Nash signed with Original Artists
• Nicholas Carlton signed with UTA
• Oz Girl got distributed on Virgina Australia
• MerriMe.com signed a deal with TheFrisky.com
• Laurent Touil-Tartour signed with Innovative Artists
• Eric Edelstein starred in the movie Hotel For Dogs
• Ryan Sage directed shorts for NBC's Chuck
• Dan Levy sold a webseries to Sony
• Annie Mebane sold her screenplay
• Evan Mann and Gareth Reynolds sold a pilot to Comedy Central
• The King Kaiser Show won $12,000 from Comcast
• Partners won $10,000 from Comcast
• Gusto won $10,000 from Comcast
• The Collectors won $10,000 from Comcast
• Adam Ray TV won $2,000 from Azureus
• Trekant won $5,000 from Azureus
• Sandra and Geoff Murillo had their film, Paper Heart, acquired by Overture
• Ziddio.com commissioned Seth Menachem and Avi Rothman of Partners to do web shorts for their site
• HolaVision met with CAA
• Michael Blieden got hired at Jimmy Fallon's show to direct and write shorts for the show
• Nathan Marshall was a producer on Outsider's Inn
• Turnover won almost $5000 in production support
• Welcome to Plainville won almost $5000 in production support
• Small Town News won almost $5000 in production support
• Small Bits of Happiness won almost $5000 in production support
• Violent Jake won almost $5000 in production support
• Turnover was taken out by Fox TV Studios
• Jonathan Leveck, Erin Gibson and Joel Church-Cooper met with casting directors from CBS
• Ibanker met with executives from CBS Interactive
• Small Town News signed a development deal with Leverage
• My Life At 26 met with executives from CBS Interactive
• Ryan Sage directed promo shorts for ABC
• Roxy: Save the Last Dance was distributed on Logo
• Jake Johnson starred in Paper Heart
• NBC commissioned a script from This Is My Friend
• Ewald/Sigamonev EP'd The Mascots for Comcast
• Jennie Church Cooper was signed by Principato-Young
• Natalie Morales was cast in Rockville, CA
• Steve Basilone sold a pilot to Fox TV Studios
• Neil Hopkins went on to do episodes of CSI: NY and Criminal Minds
• Lindsay Stidham starred in Jesus People: The Movie
• Evan Mann and Gareth Reynolds acted in the Sony Webseries "The Room"
• Jason Perlman of Age Appropriate was signed by New Wave Entertainment
• Monica Herman was cast in CSI and Criminal Minds
• Ethan Berlin got staffed on the Gong Show
• Ethan Berlin got staffed on Spike Feresten's Talk Show
• Comcast distributed 8 different pilots on Comcast On-Demand
• Small Town News signed a development deal with Leverage
• Opus Moreschi got staffed on The Colbert Report
• Partners got a script deal with Starz!

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