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STAND UP & PITCH 2021: THE COMEDY CONTENT SEARCH
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Hear the next best Web, TV and OTT pitches!

Join us for an exclusive, live-streamed presentation as the next, new wave of comedians, writers, creators and producers present their series ideas to a panel of leading comedy executives - available ONLY to Industry Pass holders at this year’s virtual JFL ComedyPRO!

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Scroll down for a sneak peak at the exciting projects being showcased this year!

FROM SET TO SCREEN: TV, OTT, SVOD & MORE

Presented by Project 10 Productions
Moderated by: Ben Murray, President of Project 10 Productions
Panelists include: Daniel Weidenfeld (FOX Entertainment), Devin Griffin (BET+), Erin Wehrenberg (ABC Entertainment), Kate Adler (CBS Studios) and Sarah Fowlie (Bell Media).

ConnectDead

ConnectDead is an animated sci-fi horror comedy series that follows a ragtag group of tech-savvy millennials and a 19th-century steampunk serial killer as they launch a device that can video chat with the dead.

H-Town

A shady salesman hustles customers to keep the family car dealership afloat, while gangsters from his past catch up to him.

HYPE

Funny, fresh, and bursting with flavour; HYPE turns up the variety with a spectacular cast of women of colour in this dynamic stand-up, sketch, and news satire comedy series.

Life Hack

An overworked Indian-American hacker finds himself on the run from a powerful corporation, and he ends up in Sedona where he is mistaken for a Zen spiritual guru whom he impersonates to restart his life.

The Pepper Grind

A formerly world-renowned chef turned ex-con claws his way back to the top, clashing with the employees of a strip club as he attempts to guide their kitchen to a Michelin Star.

BEYOND THE BOX: PLAYING IT SHORT

Presented by Stareable Fest
Moderated by: Ajay Kishore, CEO and Founder of Stareable Panelists include: Cameron Tang (Adult Swim), Candice Wilson Cherry (Laugh Out Loud Network), Deniese Davis (Reform Media Group), Erin Keating (Snap Inc.), Kesila Childers (Powderkeg) and Mike McShane (Bell Media).

Donkeys

A band of desperate and underemployed New Yorkers perform menial, humiliating, and outlandish tasks for the city's elite on the on-demand hiring app, ChoreDonkey.

Layla Is Relevant

Ambitious Layla Khan, former child star and current nobody, moves back in with her stubborn single mom and her snarky gamer cousin in an attempt to reboot her career through her self- created, self-released reality series.

Professional Mourners

It's a man's world. literally. In a tribe descended from The Patriarchs, during the rule of the inept King Saul, career woman Rakhel just wants to run a successful small business of women mourners, For Crying Out Loud (incorporated 1000 B.C.E.).

Split Ends

When a disgraced hairdresser is shunned from the industry after committing the ultimate beauty crime, she's forced to apply her skills at a children's hair salon owned by an eccentric hippie.

The Drop

Zara and her crew are professional line waiters; hired by those too rich or lazy to stand in line for exclusive products the day they DROP. Every line-up is a new adventure!

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Judging this year’s competition is Brent Haynes (Head of Scripted Series for Canada at Amazon Studios), Kesila Childers (Vice President of Development at Powderkeg), and Christine Davilla (Head of Development and Production at Ojalá).

Just For Laughs Eat My Shorts will air online for free at hahaha.com as of Wednesday, July 28.

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Scroll down for a sneak peak at this year’s finalists:

180 Seconds, Directed by Perry Strong

Sour, Directed by Natalya Mykhaylyuk

Glen, Directed by Jeremy Brull

Rock A Bye Baby, Directed by Monique Sorgen

Silent Treatment, Directed by JD Smith

Swipe, Directed by Anthony Sneed

The Robbery, Directed by Nika Belianina

Wheres My White Privilege, Directed by Michael Harrison

M*therfucker, Directed by Adam Long and Adam Peterson

A Madness To My Method, Directed by Aris Tyros

Too Many Buddhas, Directed by C. Fraser Press

The winning filmmakers will be announced at the end of the screening!

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