Film Finale

Unlike anything in its field

Genre – Reality-Competition TV show

Arced format

Other Filmmaker Contest Show Attempts

Project Greenlight

A docu-series – In one season, the winning director of a short film is awarded the opportunity to make his own film with a large budget and top Hollywood assets and his journey is documented

Failure – The rookie director struggles with budgets and time frames while the drama centers around him holding out for a more expensive filming process to make or remake one of his old scripts. Nothing here to see.

Original – Ben Affleck, Matt Damon
4 seasons: 2001/2, 05 &15

Reboot – Issa Ray – all female prospects for 2022

On The Lot

50 small, independent filmmakers are given creative tasks to be judged by panel while being subject to rounds of eliminations.

Failure – The contest moves too slowly with drama emphasis on the emotional checking of the contestants while the viewers endure the slow judging process where the same advice and critiques are dispensed to each contestant privately. The show lacked the raw emotions, stress and elations evident in head to head competitions.

Original – Steven Spielberg, Mark Burnett
1 season: 2007