Unexpected Media

Crossover Pitch Competition

The final act of Crossover UK was Cross-Platform Pitch competition at the Doc/Fest in Sheffield. The whole DigiDocs strand was well attended and we had a full house for the pitches.

Four of the teams which formed for the last two days of Crossover in October chose to pitch the projects that they’d worked on. All the presentations were impressive, given that people hadn’t had much chance to re-rehearse since the end of the Lab but there was one clear winner.

Anna Higgs of Quark Films, Tim Morgan of Mint Digital and Diarmid Scrimshaw from Warp Films had formed a team at Crossover following a dinner conversation about eating meat and at what point people might look back in amazement at the idea that we had ever thought of other animals as food. They went on to devise a project called The Museum of Our Futures which would invite the audience to speculate about the behaviours and mores which we accept now but will seem quaint and uncivilised to future generations.

The project won the competition and receives a £10,000 development award from Crossover.