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SeriesFest has wrapped its fifth edition in Denver after handing out juried awards to 15 winners. Beyond the pilot competition, highlights of the June 21-26 festival, inlcuded panels featuring Netflix content chief Ted Sarandos and a team of executives and collaborators from Shondaland. NBC fall drama Bluff City Law…

UPDATED with video clip. Netflix content chief Ted Sarandos, in a lengthy sit-down with Liberty Global CEO Mike Fries, covered a host of topics, including talent agencies producing content, Disney’s streaming outlook and Netflix’s M&A future. The pair spoke onstage Friday night at SeriesFest in Denver, an emerging…

SeriesFest has announced selections for its TV pilot competition as well as jury members for its upcoming fifth edition of its annual TV festival in Denver. Dubbing this “The Year of Innovation,” organizers have identified 53 pilots across the categories of Independent Pilot, Digital Short Series and Late Night. The…

SeriesFest has teamed with Kyra Sedgwick, Meredith Bagby and Valerie Stadler’s Big Swing Produdctions for its Women Writing Competition. SeriesFest and Big Swing will celebrate the partnership with an invite-only reception Monday at the Sundance Film Festival honoring female creatives. SeriesFest is seeking new series…

EXCLUSIVE: SeriesFest, a non-profit supporting the art of episodic storytelling and inspiring work of female creators, is partnering with Shonda Rhimes’ TV empire Shondaland to launch the inaugural Women Directing Mentorship. SeriesFest organizers said the initiative is an expansion of their "Featuring Women"…

The international television festival SeriesFest announced its initial season four line-up of special events and industry panels. Based in Denver, Colo., the festival takes place June 22-27. The six-day festival will open with an exclusive advance screening of NBC's new drama, New Amsterdam which will be followed by a…

The preliminary slate of panels for the 2016 edition of television and content festival Seriesfest have now been unveiled. Happening June 22-26 in Denver, Colorado, highlights from this year’s Seriesfest include "Women in Media" with Kim Cattrall and Vanity Fair's Krista Smith, a discussion of BBC America’s The Hunt…

With the inaugural edition of SeriesFest concluding today in Denver, the festival has announced the winners in all competition categories. Crime drama Witnesses was named Best Pilot. Starring Marcus Truschinski, Ronan Babbit, and Will Mobley, Witnesses follows two con artist brothers who pose as evangelical…

Have a new TV series you’re trying to get picked up? SeriesFest might be a good place to start. The new festival, set for June 18-21 in Denver, will see 26 independently produced television pilots competing for Best Pilot. From a lineup of entries featuring the likes of Malcolm McDowell, John Glover, Missy Pyle…