Today is the deadline for The Amazing Pitch II and we’d love to see your series pilot in on the action! We have some awesome entries already, but you still have a few hours to get yours uploaded.
We’re giving away $1500 to the best video, and $500 to 5 runners-up. But more importantly, we’ll be optioning the best submissions and taking them around to our many brand partners and working deals to get your show sponsored. You could get $30,000 to develop a 6-part series!
While you’re thinking about how to polish up those final edits, I’ll leave you with a pretty wild success story I’ve been reading about today thanks to a tip from Steve Bryant at Reel Pop. Three young guys in New York made a no-budget video series last year in their apartment called “We Need Girlfriends“. After millions of views, thousands of fans and a handful of YouTube and MySpaceTV front page features, their show got bought by CBS in a development deal. Wow!
The New York Times just published a pretty cool backstory about how these guys made their show successful. It’s a fantastic read. If you’re looking for some inspiration, this is it! Here, watch the first episode:
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