Voters To Decide Which Brooklyn-Made TV Pilot Will Become A Show

FLATBUSH, BROOKLYN — What do you want to watch — a show about a young midwestern transplant who spends her days in a Bronx nursing home or one about a movie location scout trying to raise her two kids?

The choice is yours.

Viewers will decide which television pilot — both set to air on the on NYC Life channel 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday — gets made into a four-episode series, the city announced.

The two pilots are products of the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment 2017 Greenlight Her competition that called for screenplays from women writers about New York City, to be produced by Brooklyn College filmmakers.

Viewers will have one week to vote on which one gets made into a television show.

Writers Patty Carey and Robin Rose Singer were selected as finalists after judges culled through more than 300 scripts in 2017 and their pilots were developed by women-led film crews in Brooklyn in June, officials said.

Brooklyn College’s Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema produced the two thirty-minute pilots last summer, with senior students working as directors, producers, editors and cinematographers.

"Maturity," by Singer, tells the story of a young woman from Kansas who pays the bills taking care of a quirky seniors at a nursing home in The Bronx.

Singer is a screenwriter whose short film, “Aphasia” aired at the Tribeca Film Festival and whose screenplay “The Lions of Mesopotamia” was finalist for a 2016 Academy Nicholl Fellowship selected by Oscars voters.

The pilot was directed by Rose Haag, produced by Brian Peterson and edited by Lilly Kleinman, all Brooklyn College film school students.

Carey’s show, "Half Life," follows a working mother trying to rebuild her career as a film scout and a writer, who must also ensure her children have lunches to eat.

Carey is herself a location manager and scout who worked on an upcoming HBO series "Succession," the film "The Greatest Showman" starring Hugh Jackman, and director Ron Howard's "A Beautiful Mind."

"Half Life" was directed by Amanda Reyes, produced by Mary McCune and edited by Kaitlyn Cortes.

The pilots will air on the local NYC Life channel and on the GreenlightHer website. Voting begins on Jan. 19 and ends Jan. 27.

The winner will see her script made into a four-episode series in 2018.

Photo courtesy of the NYC Mayor's Office of Media And Entertainment