North Fork TV Festival Returns

The North Fork TV Festival returns to Greenport in August, and recently announced the winners of its sixth annual Independent Pilot Competition, which will be awarded and celebrated at this year’s event on Wednesday, August 4, at the Soundview Greenport. Winners were named in three categories: Best Pilot-Comedy, Best Pilot-Drama and Best Web Series honors.

Patty Carey’s “Half Life” and Blake McWilliam’s “Timberwood” were both named Best Pilot-Comedy while Michelle Palermo’s “Middle of Nowhere” was chosen as the Best Pilot-Drama and Mathieu Rochet’s “Lost in Traplanta” was selected as Best Web Series.

In “Half Life,” Patty struggles with turning 39, but with a little help from Thelma, Louise and Virginia Woolf, she reconnects with her writing and herself.

Set at a summer camp, the long-term counselors of “Timberwood” think they’ll be picking up right where they left off last year. But when their fearless leader is kicked out before the kids arrive, they’re suddenly left to fend for themselves. This isn’t the summer they planned, but maybe it will end up being the best one yet.

“Middle of Nowhere” is a single-camera dramedy that tells the story of one family’s wide emotional rifts, deeply ingrained roles, hidden secrets, terrible habits and fierce love — in other words, it tells the story of every family.

“Lost in Traplanta” tells the story of Larry, an offbeat daydreamer who is appointed by the God of Rap to save the world from an epidemic of Trap Music. How? By finding OutKast, the mythical group from Atlanta.

“This year, the selection committee was overwhelmed with exceptional submissions from all over the world and the winners represent unique voices, being allowed to tell their stories as they want to, without the permission of studios or networks,” said the festival’s artistic director, Elias Plagianos. “I’m very grateful to get the opportunity to shine the spotlight on fellow creators who are continuing to push the limit of what independently created episodic content can achieve.”

Festival passes are now available for the festival at northfork.tv/passes.