21/10/2013 - Get Over It has won the ARTE International Prize for the Pixel Pitch at Power to the Pixel’s Cross-media Forum

Get Over it, by writer/director/producer Paula Schargorodsky and creative producer Rabia Williams, has won the €6,000 ARTE International Prize for the Pixel Pitch at the seventh annual Cross-media Forum (October 15-18) held in association with the 57th BFI London Film Festival. Get Over It is a transmedia project where participants and collaborating artists share their stories of disappointments in love, which will become a collective mechanical installation.

The £3,000 Power to the Pixel prize was awarded to The Viking of 6th Avenue and British producer Holly Elson.  The web, mobile and film/TV non-fiction project tells the story of a blind, homeless street musician from Kansas who rose to become a New York icon, an internationally-renowned composer and the ultimate cult music figure. 

Federico Dini of Germany won the Cinekid Pixel Market Prize for Best Children’s Project for Milli, a pre-school series of picture books, interactive storybooks and television episodes.

Producer Dan Wechsler, and project manager Ulrich Fischer won the ITVS Impact Pixel Market Prize for the Best Social Impact Project for Zeru, an interactive graphic novel, feature film and web documentary set on a business trip to Tanzania.

The Merging Media Pixel Market Prize was awarded to director Victoria Mapplebeck, and executive producer Andy Glynne for Text Me that will explore the stories and secrets hidden in our phone memories. 

The beActive Pixel Market Prize for Best Scripted Content (Fiction) went to producer Dina Jakir of Croatia’s Studio Dim and author Irena Krcelic for Crochebots/My Grandpa is an Alien.