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Zombie Bootcamp Developed By Australian
Based The Feds Secures The €25,000 Award
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Zombie Bootcamp
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The Feds, Australia's next generation, screen content production house has secured the top prize at the MIPFormats International Pitch competition for the groundbreaking format Zombie Bootcamp.
"This year's finalists showed a great variety of original and entertaining ideas and they all did a brilliant job pitching to our jury. Zombie Boot camp is definitely a unique idea! We look forward to working with production company, The Feds, on developing their format further for the international market," said Warner Bros. International TV Production SVP, Creative, Format Development and Sales, Andrew Zein.
The Australian developed reality TV format, Zombie Boot Camp, is a disruptive play on an endurance challenge with a morbid twist, pitting sixteen contestants against each other and the end of the world in the Zombie Apocalypse.
"This win is a testament to the rich and diverse content that is coming out of Australia right now and The Feds are proud to be taking our innovation globally with such a supportive development partner in Warner Bros," said The Feds' Founder and Director of Content & Broadcast, Lizzy Nash.
The Feds recently secured a portion of Screen Australia's funding under the Enterprise Program which will assist them in taking Australian content innovation across global borders.
"This is a great recognition of the power of Australian story telling and an illustration of the international opportunities that are available to Australian content producers. This win is particularly significant as it sets the tone for MIPTV which features a strong Australian contingent and will be honouring Seven West Media CEO Tim Worner with the Médaille d'Honneur Award," said Reed Midem UK, Managing Director and OBE, Peter Rhodes.
The MIPFormats International Pitch is the global pitching event for creators and producers around the world with original, non-scripted entertainment formats and is exclusively sponsored by Warner Bros. International Television Production. The international jury of formats experts included: Nick Emmerson, CEO, Ricochet (UK), Taco Ketelaar, Senior Vice President, Prime Time, Entertainment Sat.1, ProsiebenSat.1 TV Deutschland (Germany), Sandra Kleinfeld, Director of Development, Studio & Unscripted Content, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (Canada), Cathrine Wiernik, Head of Development & Format Acquisitions, TV4 (Sweden).
The Feds secured the win against strong international competition from five finalists from across Italy, Spain and Ireland. Creators, The Feds Head of Content, Lisa Gray, Associate Producer – Development, and Claire Marshall pitched the project in Cannes to a full house of international television delegates. MIPFormats, takes place ahead of MIPTV, 7-10 April.
About Zombie Boot Camp
Presented by Lisa Gray, Head of Content, The Feds, Australia and Claire Marshall, Associate Producer – Development, The Feds, Australia Zombie Boot Camp is a reality show that trains sixteen contestants for the fight of their lives - the Zombie Apocalypse. Every episode, contestants in two teams will compete in a survival challenge, testing their skills in everything from skull protection to improvised bullets. The winning team will be given immunity; the losing team must choose three contestants to face the Zombies. Two contestants will escape, but the last to reach the escape hatch will be eaten. In the finale, the final two will face 200 zombies including their old team members in the greatest zombie battle ever seen!
About The Feds
The Feds are an Australian headquartered production company with a focus on developing a range of innovative content across all media platforms. We specialise in the creation of content and entertainment concepts across TV programming including factual entertainment, reality TV, game shows and comedy. Our next generation media vision includes the development and delivery of technology-led initiatives and original transmedia entertainment experiences. The Feds have a strong pedigree producing commercial advertising, music videos, short and feature length documentaries and film.
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