Session

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Tuesday, February 3
1:30pm - 2:30pm
Merrick

Pitching Partners

Tuesday, February 3
1:30pm - 2:30pm
Merrick

Pitching Partners

Advance sign-up was required.

Production company execs, each at their own tables, will takeone-on-one,(3) three-minute pitchesfrom potential production partners.

Lottery opened on Wednesday, January 7 at 11:00 AM EST, and closed on Monday, January 12 at 5:00 PM EST. Lottery results were emailed to participants on Wednesday, January 14 by 2:00 PM EST.

General sign-ups opened Wednesday, January 14 at 5:00 PM EST, and closed on Thursday, January 29 at 5:00 PM EST.

Attendees who secured a spot in advance for Pitching Partners should arrive at the session room 15-20 minutes prior to the session start time to check in with the room monitor and get processed. Showing up late will result in losing your spot.

If you did not secure a spot in advance, we recommend showing up to the session room 20-30 minutes early to join the wait line.

No pairs or team pitching to a host. These meetings are one-on-one.

Featuring:

Table host

Steve Ascher

EVP, Head of Development, A+E Factual Studios

A+E Global Media

A+E Factual Studios is always looking for premium true crime—limited series or returnable overbrands—also have a strong track record in the sports space and are very open to compelling limited documentaries in that space as well. Given our close relationships with our internal brands, we’re also especially interested in conflict-forward formats for A&E and history-driven (celeb fronted) projects for the History Channel

Table host

Laura Crowson

Senior Vice President, Global Development

Great Pacific Media Inc.

Great Pacific Media develops premium unscripted series with strong access, character-driven storytelling, and global scale, spanning factual, adventure, docu-series, and entertainment formats.

Table host

Carl Hall

Chief Creative Officer

Bomanbridge Media Pte Ltd

Global distributor, Bomanbridge Media is attending RealScreen seeking factual programming which is partly funded or licensed by a broadcaster but where international presales and financing is sought to close the budget and get the series or Special into production. We are particularly interested in science, history, wildlife, food and specialist travel.

Table host

Nicole Hamilton

EVP, English Content

Attraction

Table host

Flora Hamilton

Director of Development

Beach House Pictures

Table host

Minerva Lopez

SVP, Alternative Development

Universal Television Alternative Studio

Universal Television Alternative Studio develops and produces in all genres, game shows, arcing competition, docuseries, true crime, etc., but formats will always be the core of their business and what they aim to do more of.

Table host

Jack Oliver

Head of Development & Producer

Dash Pictures

Dash Pictures is a multi Emmy nominated film and television production company founded in two thousand and five and based in London. A strong pedigree in History, Engineering, also Talent led projects and premium documentaries with a strong narrative propulsion always seeking distinctive projects in that sphere.

Table host

Celia Tait

Managing Director, Executive Producer

Artemis Media

Artemis Media is renowned for producing stand out award winning non scripted, including wildlife, true crime, science, history and social experiments. We have formats to exploit and also license formats if exceptional! For international co-productions the stories need to resonate with the Australian audience.