Session

Wednesday, January 31
10:45am - 11:45am
Rhythms II & III

Pitching Partners

Wednesday, January 31
10:45am - 11:45am
Rhythms II & III

Pitching Partners

Advance sign-up was required.

Production company execs, each at their own tables, will take one-on-one, three-minute pitches from potential production partners.

Lottery opened on Wednesday, January 3 at 11:00 AM EST, and closed on Monday, January 8 at 5:00 PM EST. Lottery results were emailed to participants on Wednesday, January 10 by 2:00 PM EST. General sign-ups opened Wednesday, January 10 at 5:00 PM EST, and closed on Friday, January 26 at 5:00 PM EST.

Featuring:

Table host

Roy Aalderink

Founder & CEO

Concept Street

Concept Street is looking for loud ideas in the reality and factual entertainment space. We’re looking for formatted concepts in the dating space, social experiments, competition reality and ideas that are or can be turned into a high-volume stripped daily.

Table host

Koulla Anastasi

Commercial Director

Woodcut Media

At Woodcut Media, we are looking to partner with like-minded producers with unique stories to tell in our key areas of specialist factual, true crime and premium docs. We bring exceptional production expertise and co-funding opportunities through our distribution arm, Woodcut International.

Table host

Eliya Arman

Executive Producer

WAG Entertainment

Wag is a factual and specialist factual producer working for broadcasters in the uk, US and internationally. We are looking for mind blowing true crime ltd series with great archive or access, access based male skewing factual, blue light access ideas and anything that looks at rehabilitation of ex-convicts, re-entering society.

Table host

Andrew Farrell

Head of Factual

CJZ

One of Australia's largest indies, CJZ has eclectic tastes. If a project inspires us creatively and we think it can find a path to audience somewhere in the world we will give it a go. From True Crime to Sports Access to Specialist Factual. We are open to producing partnerships with smaller players & individuals who have big ideas that may work in Australia and/or The World.

Table host

Andrea Gabourie

President & Executive Producer

FORTE Entertainment

FORTÉ Entertainment is an Emmy Award-winning prodco active across multiple genres. In the unscripted space we are looking for high quality, premium factual series with access to IP, lifestyle concepts with fresh talent and new spins on the competition reality model.

Table host

Harry Gamsu

VP, Creative, Format, Development and Sales

Warner Bros. Discovery Television Group

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Renata Lombardo

SVP, Development & Current Non-Scripted Programming

Scout Productions

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Julie Meldal-Johnsen

EVP, Global Content

ITV Studios

At ITV Studios we are actively looking for content in the specialist factual genre from history told in a new angle, natural history, engineering, science, space exploration as well as more populist factual entertainment. We are open to hear concepts from the very start, to look at different finance models with you and work on best solutions. We are excited about all content, and would love to tell your story with you.

Table host

Tom Miyauchi

Head of Formats

Nippon TV

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Joe Rivadeneira

SVP, Development & Production

Beyond Productions

Beyond Productions has a major expertise in true crime, lifestyle (especially renovation and food), dating, social experiments, popular science, automotive programming and the team has produced popular series such as Emmy Award-nominated MythBusters for Discovery, My Lottery Dream Home for HGTV, Back in the Groove for Hulu and Deadly Women for ID. We are looking for more of what we are known for in the spaces above.

Table host

Anouk van Dijk

Head of Sales & Co-Productions

Quintus Media

The main areas Quintus Media is looking to commission into are Prisons, Tough Jobs, Dangerous Journey, Mysterious Locations, Subcultures and Survival. Check out their top performing videos at https://www.youtube.com/@FreeDocumentary for more on what works for Quintus.