Crypt TV and Movie Pilot Announce Winner of One Sentence Scare Fan Competition: Two on the Run
You may recall back in May we told you about a new partnership between our friends at Crypt TV and Movie Pilot to find the next great “One Sentence Scare” via a fan competition, and the winner has been revealed!
Read on for the details and to see Two on the Run – all the way from Greece!
From the Press Release:
Movie Pilot and Crypt TV have released Two on the Run, the short film based on the winning submission of the “One Sentence Scare” fan competition, which was hosted on Moviepilot.com. Fans across the globe were invited to submit their best “One Sentence Scare,” and out of thousands of entries, 18-year-old Solon Papageorgiou from Greece was selected as the winner with the line, “I didn’t have to outrun the serial killer; I just had to outrun my friend running beside me.”
Produced by Crypt TV, the short film premiered last Friday, September 2, during a joint celebration between Movie Pilot and Crypt TV. The finished short film is shared both on Crypt TV’s Facebook channel and Movie Pilot’s Horror Channel on Facebook, a network of more than 6 million collective fans. This was the first official contest collaboration between the two new media companies. In combining creative and distribution forces, Movie Pilot and Crypt TV hope to continue the trend of fan-centric approaches to horror content, inviting storytellers across the globe to infuse the genre with new millennial voices.
“We are incredibly proud to have been able to work with Crypt TV and the fan community on this exciting project,” stated Jon Handschin, co-founder and CCO of Movie Pilot. “Solon Papageorgiou’s sentence resonated with our global audiences, and the finished short fits well into Movie Pilot’s wheelhouse of strong fan-produced horror content.”
Movie Pilot is one of the biggest entertainment publishers in the US and has become a forerunner in live social-video broadcasts in the movie and gaming world through its distribution to a network of over 32 million Facebook fans. As a moderated open-posting platform offering fans a voice and mass distribution, Movie Pilot has also become a leader in the influencer marketing space, partnering with top movie studios to connect passionate fans with the content they love most.
“Crypt TV prides itself on bringing original, short scares to horror fans every day,” said Crypt TV CEO Jack Davis, “so to be able to partner with Movie Pilot and their rabid community of written creators to bring a fan’s One Sentence Scare to life was a pleasure. The fact that the winning One Sentence Scare came from Solon, all the way from Greece, shows how powerful the love of horror is on a global scale.”
Co-founded by Davis and Eli Roth and with a strategic partnership with Blumhouse Productions, Crypt TV is a digital brand that produces dark and edgy content. They work with young filmmakers to create shorts, shows, and original series. Crypt TV is fundamentally changing the way fans consume and celebrate genre content — in short form, on mobile, every day. Since their launch over one year ago, they have produced and released hundreds of genre shorts across social networks and built a substantial Facebook following, nearing 1.5 million fans. That social-first, fan-centric approach brought Crypt TV and Movie Pilot together for this collaborative competition.
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