Those are the words on the website of the Producers Guild of America about our client Oly and his show Mutiny on the Black Raven.

On their site they have an article about the last day of the Realscreen Summit 2012 and talk about the So You Think You Can Pitch event.

Here’s their quote:
The most unscripted moment came when Howie Mandel invited a pitch from a would-be producer who attended the Summit decked out in pirate garb to bring attention to his show idea.  He was a natural!

Yeah for Oly, our pirate client! Oly did do a great job because he was prepared and confident!

Not only did Oly get a lot of attention at the show, but now he’s getting press too!

Here’s the aaaaarrrrrrrr-ticle: http://www.producersguild.org/members/blog_view.asp?id=698182&post=138025&

Immediately after the pitch competition at Realscreen Summit, Jeanne and Doug were approached by an executive from ProSiebenSat.1, Germany’s biggest TV company. They own 27 networks in Europe.

He loved the show. Everything about it. Jeanne, Doug and Michael had a great meeting with him the next morning. Next week his board of directors votes on it. We should hear soon if we get a firm offer. Keep your fingers crossed!

Who knew? Our clients with the show Mutiny on the Black Raven, Oly and Gunnar, have been working hard at the Realscreen Summit. Oly has been dressed as a pirate the entire time. It’s OK, he’s a pirate on a themed pirate ship tour boat and their show is about what happens on and around the pirate ship.

Sure, he’s a bit weird, but what TV star isnt’? He’s making a visual statement. Did it work?

Yep. Host Howie Mandel noticed him. During the pitch competition last night, Howie kept talking about the pirates at the show and how you have to be careful around them.

Then at the end, and no one expected this, Howie called out into the giant audience looking for Oly. “Is that pirate here? Come on up here. I’ll give you two minutes to pitch your show.”

Oly took full advantage of the situation and knocked his pitch out of the ball park. He was great! Full of energy, great pitch, in full character. I love the look on the faces of the judges. They really enjoyed his pitch and performance.

He was prepared and ended up with the best promotion you could have at an event like this, one great pitch to the entire conference and now everyone knows who he is.

What did you do for your show this week?

Jeanne and Doug did great! While we didn’t win the top prize, they were swamped with compliments and interest immediately after the competition.

Since they are both old pros, neither was nervous about the pitch, but their energy was huge! They have meetings this morning with distributors based on their performance last night!

The huge ballroom at the Renaissance DC was packed. It was the biggest event of the Summit.

Thanks to all of you who were there cheering them on. Jeanne told me she heard all the cheering when she went up on stage. That kind of support is wonderful!

We’ve gotten a ton of emails from people who have tried to sign up for our free 15 minute Laser sessions, but couldn’t.

Every session for the next 2 months was booked in less than an hour. The response was incredible!

Every week, a few more sessions will be available at the end of our schedule. Our system will book sessions up to 8 weeks out.

Anyone who needs a quicker response should book a Breakthrough Session with us. Go to http://www.sellyourtvconceptnow.com/breakthrough-sessions/ for details.

Thanks for your interest in working with us.

The time is here. In 7 minutes, the Realscreen pitch competition starts. Jeanne and Wayne are pumped.

The huge ballroom at the Renaissance DC is filled to capacity with over 1,000 people ready to watch them pitch.

Not only is this a great competition, they will be pitching our show in front of the the worldwide leaders of reality TV! Now THAT’S a way to get exposure!

We’ve got a huge group ready to cheer them on. Wish us luck!

We’re getting close! Jeanne and Doug are at the walkthrough of the pitch competition at the Realscreen Summit. The producers are testing all the sizzle reels and showing the finalists what they need to do.

The pitch competition starts at 5.  Keep your fingers crossed that we come out on top. Our photographer will be there so we should have great photos for you soon.

Oly and Gunnar and their pirate series are at Realscreen Summit. Like everyone else, they are having a great time.

I love how a pirate stands out in a room of stuffy suits. Creatives should never be afraid to be who they are. I don’t own a tie and I don’t plan to buy one. Who the hell ever thought they were comfortable to wear anyway?!

Oly, the pirate shown here, has no problem strutting his stuff in style…or in public. Personally, I think Jeanne is laughing at him as much as with him, but that’s what we’re hoping for.

Who could miss him in a room?

Jeanne and our clients are having an awesome, yet tiring, time. Everyone is going strong in parties and meetings until midnight or later.

John Bujak, friend, cohort and client, just sent this note to us:

“Well RealScreen has been a blast so far. Pitched to Animal Planet VP yesterday, we ended up talking for the first 20 minutes about my DP work on “Tattooed in Detroit” Which he loved! Then he gave some great pointers as to what Animal Planet is looking for and said he wants to hear from us in a few months with another great idea and sizzle off what we discussed. Met a distributor with funding who liked our travel show.”

Great job!

Jeanne is hard at work at the Summit in DC right now. She’s with all of our clients and they are having a great time already!

Everyone in our group is getting along great and they are already helping each other. Way to go gang!

There’s nothing like having support at a big event. Claire, the producer of the event, told Jeanne that the conference sold out with 2,000 attendees, the most ever!

Tomorrow night is the big pitch competition and Jeanne will be up there with Doug Stanley pitching in the finals. That’s right, with hundreds of entries, we are one of the 5 finalists! Make sure you cheer Jeanne on if you are in the audience.

Here’s a picture of our client Brian Veal about to pitch CBS!