#Tv pilot contests 2018 full#

All the biggest channels want their moment of SXSW programming, like HBO (which has brought 10 titles in total), Hulu and Starz (six each), and Amazon, AMC, and Showtime (tied on 5 a piece).

In total there have been 68 Episodic premieres and 57 Episodic pilots at SXSW, such as comedy smash What We Do in the Shadows and Showtime's The Man Who Fell to Earth.

#Tv pilot contests 2018 full#

There was such a strong immediate response, amplified by the premiere the following year of Psycho spinoff Bates Motel, that the festival added a full Episodic track in 2014 and the Independent Episodics section (later the Independent Pilot Competition) in 2018. In that time it's launched hundreds of films, but in 2012 it added its first small-screen title when film-fest veteran Lena Dunham brought the pilot episode of her new show, Girls, to the festival. The annual cultural extravaganza has just announced that it's changing its name to reflect the reality of its programming for the last decade, starting with next year's festival, running March 10-19.įounded in 1994 as the SXSW Film & Multimedia Conference, the visual wing of the March gathering of creatives split into two sections, Film and Multimedia (now Interactive), a year later. Goodbye, South by Southwest Film Festival, and hello, SXSW Film & TV Festival.

After a decade of small-screen programming, the festival is changing its name to reflect that side of the schedule. The pilot episode of Girls was the first-ever TV show to be part of the SXSW Film Festival programming.