Channel 4 Confirms Potential TransformatLab Funding

Channel 4 has confirmed potential project development funding for the TransformatLab projects devised by participants in 2013 and 2014.
TransformatLab is a workshop-based training programme designed for creative media students from across Europe.
Following Channel 4’s involvement with the initial programme in 2011 and 2012, as well as Head of Multi-platform Commissioning Louise Brown’s participation on the final pitching panel and confirmation of potential development funding in 2012, Jody Smith, Multiplatform Commissioning Editor, Comedy & Entertainment at Channel 4 has confirmed continuity of a potential fund for development of the projects created during the lab.
Channel 4 will offer funds to one proposal from the 2013 and 2014 participants, who will be pitching their ideas to industry guests this September.
The funding available will be between £2,000 and £20,000.
Ms Smith will be taking part in the feedback panel on September 5 at the University of South Wales’ Atrium campus.
"New ideas are the lifeblood of Channel 4, and we’re driven by a need to reinvent programmes to satisfy the ever-changing demands of our audience," she said.
"We’re pleased to support TransformatLab, which brings together creative people from across Europe to collaborate on what will hopefully be the future of cross-platform storytelling."
To date, 24 people from nine European countries have participated in the EU MEDIA-funded lab.
Gill Sandford, Dean of the Faculty of Creative Industries at University of South Wales said: "It is great to have the support of Channel 4 for the TransformatLab. We have seen the programme grow from strength to strength over the past 3 years and, with the involvement of 35 different leading multiplatform industry practitioners, we are able to offer a really strong 4 weeks of activity to bring the new projects to fruition. The potential for development funding from Channel 4 will focus the efforts of our international teams and I wish them well with their final pitches in September."
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