Metro Screen students to meet with Lionsgate

Metro Screen Multi-Platform Screen Producer Scholarship students Claire Evans, Anna Bay and James Boyce will meet with US studio Lionsgate at MIPCOM.

“The best outcome from their visit to Cannes would be funding of the concept to build a prototype, and they’ll be looking for film and television properties to align with,” said the school’s learning and development manager Bethany Bruce.

According to Metro Screen, Evans, Bay and Boyce have scheduled interviews with a Danish distributor and a number of international broadcasters. They have “paid for everything out of their pockets”, but the school is “working with a few agencies, trying to get a grant for them”.

Their project is entitled Crime Plays and it was developed in class. It’s “an immersive, pervasive game wrapped in a crime story-world. It’s The Amazing Race meets Mafia Wars“. The team are partnering with transmedia production company The Project Factory, joining director Guy Gadney at MIPCOM.