SMALL WORLD. BIG IDEAS 2018: who will choose the best of the best

We are proud to announce the members of the international expert jury, who will select the winner among the five finalists of the SMALL WORLD. BIG IDEAS entertainment formats competition on September 17 at KYIV MEDIA WEEK.

The jury will evaluate the finalists’ projects with the same criteria as in the first round of the competition. Namely – idea originality and creativity. Also – potential to develop multiple series, potential to travel around the world as a format, potential to become cross-media and multiplatform format. But if at the first stage all the applications were submitted by the contest participants  in very laconic form, now each of the 5 finalists will have 15 minutes for a personal pitch of the idea in any creative format.

The pitches will be judged by the international panel of three experts with vast experience in content production and distribution.

One of the jury members is Tim Crescenti, co-founder and president of the international distribution company Small World IFT (USA), the partner of SMALL WORLD. BIG IDEAS. Prior to launching Small World in 2005, Tim was VP of international formats for Sony Pictures Television International and VP of international production for Fox World, where he covered the worldwide roll-out of Fox's formats including Dragons' Den, I Survived a Japanese Game Show, All-Star Lifeguards, Silent Library, Miss Country Girl, and Japanizi Going Going Gong! And it is quite possible that the winning format of SMALL WORLD. BIG IDEAS 2018 will soon join this list of international hits, after all, under the terms of the contest, it will be included into the catalogue of Small World IFT and the company will become its exclusive distributor on the international market.

The second expert is from the UK – Justin Scroggie, a.k.a. The Format Doctor, an independent expert with 30 years’ experience in the industry, a BAFTA-winner and co-founder of The Format People, a consultancy of top industry professionals. Among the projects Justin worked on are: Doctors vs. Internet (NRK), licensed to 12 territories, and cookery competition Chef in Your Ear, distributed by Warner Bros. and adapted in 9 countries.

And the third member of the panel will be Oleksiy Gladushevsky. Currently, he is the general producer of Novy TV channel, and previously he directed the creative unit that produced top projects for Ukrainian television. In particular, in 2011 he began working on the reality The Biggest Loser and from 2012 hetook the leadof the creative unit, responsible for The Bachelor as well. In 2013 Oleksiy’s creative unit produced a hugely successful second season of the Pregnant at 16. Three seasons of the reality about models Ukrainian Supermodeloand one season of the Ukraine’s Next Top Model were created under the guidance of Oleksiy Hladushevsky.

The experts will evaluate 5 projects preselected for the final round of the formats competition from more than 40 applications received from around the world. The top 5 are:

• Victor Bulyga (Ukraine) – project 'Brother for Brother, Sister for Sister'
• Andriy Babkin (Ukraine) – project 'F*ck-up and win!'
• Jokin Etcheverria (Spain) – project 'President Me'
• Pavlo Linievych (Ukraine) – project 'Son of my Mother's Friend'
• Evgenia Zinko (Ukraine) – project 'The 'At One' Club'

Final round of the SMALL WORLD. BIG IDEAS contest will take place on September 17, 2018, from 11:10 till 12:50 in the course of KMW 2018.

The partners of the contest prepared valuable prizes for the winner. First of all, as mentioned before – exclusive partnership with the project's main partner Small World IFT (USA). International Partner of the competition and KMW – MIPCOM (France) – awards the winner with participant’s badge of the world's biggest entertainment content market MIPTV and MIPFormats 2019. Travel partner of KMW 2018 – KIY AVIA awards the winner with air tickets to France and accommodation during their participation in Cannes markets. Innovation partner of SMALL WORLD. BIG IDEAS – gadgets retailer Citrus (Ukraine) – will present to the winner DJI Mavic Pro Platinum quadcopter.

Very soon we will find out which idea is the most creative, original and potentially successful, according to the members of the expert jury. In the meantime, the organizer of the contest, Media Resources Management, wishes good luck to all participants of the final round!

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