23/10/2013 - European and Canadian participants to vie for $15,000 in prize money in Vancouver

The 4th annual Merging Media Conference has announced the finalists of the Pitch 360 Competition, which include European cross-media companies with potential for collaboration with Canada. The finalists will present their projects to an international panel of industry experts to win the Merging Media Pitch 360 $10,000 Development award. The Telus Optik TV Pitch 360 Prize, a $5,000 production grant for community television programming, will also be awarded at the Competition. Pitch 360 takes place during the Merging Media conference (November 6-7) in Vancouver.

The international Pitch 360 finalists:

France:

-       Do Not Track - Upian (Alexandre Brachet and Margaux Missika)

-       In the Footsteps of Corto Maltese - Kids Uphill (Eleonore LaMothe and Mathieu Détaint)

-       Off We Go - Les Films D’ici (Laurent Duret)

Sweden:

-       EM - Primodrom Produktion AB (Sofie Palage and Gunnar Jarvstad)

-       Mint - Circus Imago Universe - (Helene Mohlin and Leif Mohlin)

-       Valkyria - KORE Film (Anna Nevander)

UK:

-       Text Me  - Mosaic Films (Victoria Mapplebeck and Andy Glynne) – winner of the inaugural Merging Media Pixel Market Prize at Power To The Pixel’s 2013 Cross-Media Forum in London.

The Canadian Pitch 360 Finalists:

-       Health Trenders - Agentic Digital Media (Phillip Djwa)

-       Hipster Bait - One Net Labs (Nicole Sorochan)

-       Kids’ Cookhouse - Urban Safari Entertainment (Tracey Mack and Bradley Shende)

-       Moby Doll  - Perpetual Motion Productions (Mark Leiren-Young)

-       What is FMLY? - Moosestash Films (Brittany Baxter and Josephine Anderson)