It's Showtime: Xbox LIVE Originals Contest
Date: Monday, April 16 @ 23:44:49 UTC
Topic: Xbox 360
New York—You can not only play games and watch premium entertainment content through Xbox LIVE® on Xbox 360™, you can now create content for it, too. Microsoft Corp. and the New York Television Festival (NYTVF) today announced the Xbox LIVE Originals contest, granting aspiring television producers the opportunity to create a pilot that could be chosen for the first original series developed specifically for Xbox LIVE.
Microsoft will award the winning entrant a $100,000 budget and an opportunity for a six-episode commitment to air the television series on Xbox 360, the center of connected entertainment in the living room.
"Xbox LIVE Marketplace, one of the top digital distributors
of online entertainment content, is a great place to
showcase the talent that takes part in the NYTVF."
—NYTVF founder Terence Gray
The pilot episode of the winning series is scheduled to debut this fall at the third annual NYTVF, the industry's first showcase for independent television, before being featured exclusively on Xbox LIVE, home to a community of more than six million people worldwide. This marks the first time that user-created entertainment content will be available worldwide for download exclusively on Xbox LIVE.
Xbox LIVE is already home to more than 1,500 hours of full-length films and TV series in the United States. This contest will showcase the user-created content alongside films and TV shows from many of the top networks and studios in the entertainment industry.
Groundbreaking Initiative
"The New York Television Festival has always striven to give artists opportunities to get their voices heard in the industry, and we think that showcasing their work on the Xbox 360 will give our artists unprecedented exposure," said NYTVF founder Terence Gray. "The Xbox LIVE Originals contest acknowledges that new technologies are enabling artists to tell their stories in innovative ways, and Xbox LIVE Marketplace, one of the top digital distributors of online entertainment content, is a great place to showcase the talent that takes part in the NYTVF. The NYTVF is proud to join with Xbox 360 on its groundbreaking initiative to create and provide original programming."
For more information please following the link below..
Entry Information
To participate in the Xbox LIVE Originals contest, produce and submit a short comedy pilot running between five and fifteen minutes long. Submissions will be accepted from April 16 through June 29, 2007. A group of selected finalists will be shown on Xbox LIVE Marketplace's video-on-demand service in July, and a winner will be announced at the end of the month.
The creators of the winning pilot will receive a budget of $100,000 and an opportunity to produce six additional episodes of the comedy series for Xbox LIVE, and the first episode will premiere at an exclusive event at the 2007 NYTVF in September. Official rules to the Xbox LIVE Originals contest are available by following the link below..
Official Site: http://www.newyorktelevisionfestival.com
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