Helping Your Animated Series find its path to success

We’re a festival and incubator committed to bringing your vision to life. In just 6 years, we've built the premiere way for creators to get access to the TV industry. Is your project next?

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We Are Your Gateway to Industry players

In 2023 alone, we facilitated offers from major studios like:

  • Sony Pictures Television
  • MACRO
  • Skybound
  • CBS Studios

How We Help Creators Gatecrash the TV Industry 

Industry Marketplace

Last year, we set up 200+ marketplace meetings with 60+ execs at the biggest names in the industry. We will help you get the right conversation for your project, and more.

Development

We will help you get your project into pitch-perfect shape, so it can truly shine, and more.

Partnerships

Stareable will help you get access to our partners, which have included major organizations like AMC Networks, Sony Pictures Television, UTA, Range Media, The Roku Channel, and more.

Delivering for creators over the years

2021

AMC Networks signs deal with Stareable

AMC Networks signed a scouting deal with Stareable, leveraging us as pipeline of I.P. & content

Stareable presents on The Roku Channel

Stareable licenses 30+ of our past Official Selections to stream on The Roku Channel
2021
2022

First Look deal at Sony Pictures Television

Stareable signs a new deal with Sony, the biggest independent TV studio

UTA Represents Stareable Studios

Stareable and its creators gain access to UTA's industry-leading ecosystem
2022
2023

Stareable gets its creators offers from 4 major studios

In just 2023, we faciltated development deals from MACRO, Sony Pictures Television, CBS Studios, and Skybound

Stareable Set To Be Bigger Than Ever

Don't miss your opportunity to land the deal that unlocks everything
2024

Past Success

SF19 Award Winner

PBS makes an offer for 26 Words, an SF19 award winner, in the room after we introduce them to the creators.

Issa Rae

Post-festival, Issa Rae's production company, Color Creative, acquires King Ester, an SF19 award winner.

First Look Signs

AMC Networks signs First Look deal around fantasy, sci-fi, and horror (genre) content.

Official Selection

The Roku Channel licenses 15 of our past Official Selections through us.

Television Signs

Sony Pictures Television signs first look deal across all categories of content.

What they said about Stareable

Wall of Love / See what Stareable community members are saying about us

Erin Good

ACE

They provided such great opportunities for Networking. Beyond just generals, they set up meetings with industry people specifically interested in my project. No other festival I've been involved with has done this.

Justin Jennings

Disney TV Animation

An amazing festival that led to some very interesting meetings with industry executives. Great communication, great contacts and a genuine chance to get your work seen by the right people.Top work guys!

Audrey Rose Goldfarb

ViacomCBS

We had a blast! Super worthwhile, made lots of interesting contacts. Looking forward to Stareable NYC.

Manon Ardisson

ACE

Thank you Stareable ! This festival provides amazing opportunities. Great films and great connections.

Sarah Michele

ACE

Ajay and Sarah have such a special festival here. We met so many fantastic filmmakers, and the industry meetings were specifically set up for us. The festival was organized and beautifully put together.

Jamie Baldanza

ACE

This festival was simply amazing. As a new filmmaker looking to network, Ajay goes above and beyond to connect you with the right people to make your project a success. This festival is a must!

Founder of Stareable, the promise of these spaces lies in their ability to upend outdated ideas of who gets to make TV.

For Ajay Kishore, founder of Stareable, the promise of these spaces lies in their ability to upend outdated ideas of who gets to make TV. "Particularly as a person of color, one of the things I find so exciting about web series and indie TV creators is that the groups that have traditionally been excluded by Hollywood - women, people of color, the LGBTQIA+, the disability community - thrive online because there are fewer gatekeepers.

"Watching TV episodes on the big screen at film festivals may never drive the cultural conversation in the way of a new Oscar contender emerging at Sundance or Cannes or the water-cooler show of the moment. But the infrastructure being built around the screenings themselves is where the production, distribution and marketing of TV is now being reimagined.

"I think the powerful thing that's happened over the past 10 years is that the internet has democratized who is allowed to be creative," Kishore says. "And I think now we're finally... taking that creativity and connecting it in a structured and smart way to the industry that's hungry for it."

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