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The winners of the 13th annual New York Television Festival were announced tonight with Giving Up winning "Best of the Fest" honors and the Critics Honor going to Royally.

The awards for pilots and scripts were announced this night at the Helen Mills Theater in Manhattan. Recipients of deals from the fest's development partners were also announced. (See the complete listing below.)

Of 52 pilots showcased throughout the festival this week, the Independent Pilot Contest recognized the elevation projects beyond 14 categories.

The Scripts contest, now in its second yr, featured 20 selections, with Blurs and Maternal Instinct tying for Best Comedy Script and Fragile Land winning in the new Best Drama Script category.

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"A dozen years after our start Festival, I continue to be impressed by the talent that we are attracting from a thriving community of independent creators," said fest Founder and Executive Managing director Terence Grayness. "These individuals and their diverse points of view are making the art form of television better because they have called this episodic medium as the mode to tell their stories."

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This year marked near artist submissions and industry participation in the fest's history, with over 3,750 submissions received across all competitions.

Here is the complete list of winners, with fest loglines:

2017 WINNERS – INDEPENDENT PILOT COMPETITION

Best Animated Projection:
"Tiffany the Teenage Grim Reaper" created past Lauren Rantala (Los Angeles, CA) Tiffany is your average teenage daughter who happens to be a Grim Reaper.

Best Comedy Project:
"New York is Dead" created by Jenn Harris, Matthew Wilkas and Randy Harrison (New York, NY) A darkly hilarious series about two bankrupt NYC artists who get hitmen to make ends meet.

Best Drama/Dramedy Projection:
"Manic" created by Yolanda Carney, Kate Marks and Kimberley Browning (Los Angeles, CA) An Ivy-league bound, overachieving teen is derailed after a manic episode lands her in a schoolhouse for children with mental illnesses.

Best Short-Form Digital Project:
"Starving Artists" created by Dewayne Perkins and Aasia Bullock (Chicago, IL) Comedy duo Aasia and Dewayne get to improvident lengths to attain their goals of international distinction and consummate earth domination. Starving Artists is a show about beingness immature, gifted, and blackness in a world that praises straight, white, and wack.

All-time Unscripted/Culling Project:
"Against All Odds" created by Lucy Smith and Jamie Minty (London, England) In this game show competition format, 5 contestants comport five locked bags, just only one contains £100,000. Together, the group must complete an obstacle course across treacherous natural landscapes and brand it to the stop line.

All-time Histrion in a Comedy:
Jeff Galfer for "Jeff'southward Place" (Los Angeles, CA)

All-time Actress in a Comedy:
Rachel B. Joyce for "Royally" (New York, NY)

Best Role player in a Drama:
Jeff Skowron for "Max Riddle" (New York, NY)

Best Extra in a Drama:
Shanice Williams for "Manic" (Los Angeles, CA)

All-time Management:
Dinh Thai for "Monday" (Los Angeles, CA)

Best Editing:
Kent Lamm for "Jeff'south Place" (Los Angeles, CA)

All-time Writing:
Kris Lefcoe for "Giving Upwardly" (New York, NY)

NYTVF Critics Award
"Royally" Created by Rachel B. Joyce (New York, NY)
A millennial burnout runs a private princess party company as a front for small-fourth dimension cons, trivial theft, and drug peddling.

Overall Best of the Fest Honor:
"Giving Up" created by Kris Lefcoe (New York, NY)
A New York couple faces their own deadline to either "brand it" or give upwardly their dreams.

2017 WINNERS – NYTVF SCRIPTS

Best Comedy Script (tie):
"Blurs" written by Jonterri Gadson (Bloomfield, NJ)
A women's studies professor and her free-spirited, dysfunctional black family face the challenges of living in the type of town where all 80s/90s films with no black people could take identify.

"Maternal Instinct" written by Elizabeth Stamp (Brooklyn, NY)
A serial killer turned suburban stay-at-home mom balances "family unit commencement" and "murder in the first" in this nighttime one-act.

Best Drama Script (new honor):
"Frail Country" written by Andrea "AJ" Janakas (Los Angeles, CA)
When a border patrol agent is recruited to work every bit a spy to assist overthrow a land, he doesn't realize that the country he enters is a parallel America on the verge of plummet.

2017 NYTVF DEVELOPMENT DEALS AND NETWORK Award WINNERS

Aural Pitch Deals:
Three winners volition each receive a development grant to further develop their concepts with Audible.
– Elizabeth Stamp (Brooklyn, NY)
– Julia Mattison and Noel Carey (New York, NY)
– Jordan Mendoza, Shannon Odell and Joanna Rothkopf (New York, NU)

One-act Central Development Award:
Mike Cabellon, Adrien Pellerin, and Katie Sicking for their project "Night Crew" (New York, NY)

OneX Pitch Bargain:
Zandile Tisani (Johannesburg, Due south Africa)

Red Arrow Amusement Evolution Honour:
Dewayne Perkins and Aasia Bullock for their projection "Starving Artists" (Chicago, IL)

Shudder Pitch Bargain:
Andrea Janakas (Los Angeles, CA)

TOPIC Pitch Bargain:
TOPIC selected ii creators and creative teams from their pitch meetings to enter into further development with the digital studio from Showtime Look Media.

Jonterri Gadson (Bloomfield, NJ)
Emily C. Chang and Sara Amini (Los Angeles, CA)

truTV Comedy Breakout Initiative:
Nick Armstrong for his project "Serial Finale: The Series" (Los Angeles, CA) (Previously-announced)

WEtv Pitch Deal:
Jillian Armenante (Los Angeles, CA)

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