The primary-ever Scorching Pilot Get together on the Banff World Media Pageant will see Taye Diggs, Jennifer Whalen, Dani Sort, Praneet Akilla and Cody Lightning do a dwell staged studying of Andrew De Angelis’ half hour comedy New Spanish.
The desk learn will see Banff organizers staff up with Scorching Pilot Get together creators Nadine Bhabha, Julian De Zotti, and Hannah Antaki to carry the occasion to the Canadian Rockies on June 8.
New Spanish, which was chosen from amongst 400 script submissions to the Scorching Pilot Get together, has a politically-charged plot in a post-Trump period the place a small city Ontario is seeking to secede from Canada. The dwell script learn in Banff retains tempo with the competition’s conventional market function of serving to hothouse TV collection in improvement, relatively than see the promoting of completed product as on the two MIPs in Cannes.
“Banff is full of world-class programming, so to have a dwell desk learn of an obtainable spec is a daring and enjoyable solution to kick off this yr’s competition,” Pam Silverstein, head of programming, stated in an announcement on Tuesday. “Banff is the place tv will get made and celebrated — it’s the place the business comes collectively to spark concepts, shut offers, and highlight unbelievable expertise. That’s precisely what we intend to do with this session,” she added.
4 extra scripts might be highlighted at Scorching Pilot Get together occasion: Spin by Allana Reoch, Hostel California by Rob Michaels, Crushing by Michael Ayers and Over Asking by Larissa Primeau, with the writers readily available in Banff.
The 2025 version of the Banff World Media Pageant is about to run June 8 to 11 in Alberta.