Microsoft Looking for Xbox Live Original Pilot
Contest with New York Television Festival Seeks User-Generated Series
By Mike Reynolds -- Multichannel News, 4/16/2007 9:37:00 AM
This is no game: Aspiring television producers now have another platform in which to crack the creative community.
Microsoft and the New York Television Festival will host an Xbox Live Original contest, in which TV producers can create a pilot for what could become the initial original series developed for the gaming-console entertainment network.
Microsoft will award the winning entrant a $100,000 budget and an opportunity for a six-episode commitment to air the TV series on the Xbox Live social network, which the company said reaches more than 6 million people globally.
In the United States, Xbox Live is home to 1,500 hours of full-length films and TV series, according to Microsoft officials.
In addition to marking the first time user-generated content will be made available on Microsoft’s Xbox Live, the pilot of the winning series is also scheduled to debut this fall at the third annual NYTVF, the showcase event for independent television.
To participate in the contest, entrants must produce and submit a comedy pilot of 5-15 minutes. Submissions will be accepted through June 29 from contestants in any of the 25 countries currently supporting Xbox Live. The work of selected finalists will be shown on Xbox Live Marketplace’s video-on-demand service in July, with the winner announced at that month’s end.
Official rules are available on the contest site (link above).
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