April 2016 Newsletter

Newsletter 21 – April 2016

In Celebration of
Excellence Edition

We believe in celebrating the success we’ve all worked so hard to achieve. Read on and celebrate with us the successes of our clients, our children, and projects we’ve worked on. Please email me and Mark your successes, large and small, and they might show up in our next Hit Maker Headlines.

Enjoy!
Jeanne Simon
CEO, Sell Your TV Concept Now, Inc.

Client Hooks a Deal

We celebrate our client, and “little bro,” John Bujak who got his Michigan-based show, “Fish N Trips” on TV. It’s a travel and leisure show airing on the World Fishing Network.

John is on the left and show host, Frank Pizzo, is on the right.

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Gold in Houston

Our client and creator of “The Peculiar Adventures of Willow B. Star,” Ariane Smith, was all smiles when she accepted a Gold Remi at Worldfest Houston this month. Worldfest is the largest independent film festival in the country.Mark Simon directed the animated pilot. She can add it to the Telly the pilot also won this year.

Mark is no stranger to winning at Worldfest Houston. He won a Gold Remi last year for another animated piece called “The Key” produced by Toon Boom Animation. Mark acted as director and writer for the short.

Judge Pleaser

The animated short, “The Key,” directed and written by Mark Simon has been chosen as an Official Selection by two film festivals this year.

The Drawtastic Animation Film Festival and the Myrtle Beach Film Festival honored the short produced by Toon Boom Animation.

So Much Winning

Congrats to our client and Executive Producer/Director of “Elephants In
Motion’,” Narumol Sriyanond, for the documentaries’ latest wins at the Hollywood International Independent Documentary Awards Festival 2016.

The one-hour feature doc won Best Feature, Best Director, Best Story and many, many more in many other competitions. It is being distributed internationally by Espresso TV.

I am honored to also be a producer on this inspirational project.

CLICK HERE to see promo

Best Finish in 5 Years

WAHOO to our sons, Luke and Reece, and to the entire men’s varsity tennis team at Dr. Phillips High School who took second place in regionals this spring. They celebrated their best finish in at least five years. The team also has the highest GPA of all the sports teams at their school.

BRAVO Eddie!

Bravo to Eddie Pittman for a job well done on the intergalactic graphic novel fantasy series he created called “Red’s Planet.”

Eddie is an award-winning writer/story artist for Disney’s hit TV series “Phineas and Ferb.” Eddie has also been a mentor for our last two Hit Maker Summits.

We just purchased the hard cover book and what a treat! The story is fun.. the art delightful.. and the book production is really beautiful.

Find out more at redsplanet.com.

Mark Simon is pictured with Eddie, below right, at the Hit Maker Summit sharing how “Phineas and Ferb” was produced.

Client Hires Client

We love it when clients connect and collaborate. Tina Howe met Matthew Peach at our Hit Maker Summit 2015, then they re-connected at NATPE 2016 as members of our Pitch TV Buyers Tour.

Matthew has hired Tina as a writer on several projects he’s producing.

Matt is on the far left, and Tina on the far right, at an exclusive Tour pitch meeting we set up at NATPE 2016.