For performers and representation
Your next role
may begin differently.
HyperPilot creates controlled opportunities for participating performers to explore new characters, work with emerging creators, reach audiences and discover ideas before traditional production begins.
Control
Your identity is not an open prompt.
HyperPilot is designed around permission — not unrestricted replication.
Authorized project
Defined · Approved
Defined character
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Defined use
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Defined term
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Defined media
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Territory
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Promotion
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Review
Defined · Approved
Approval
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Prohibited uses
Defined · Approved
Commercial terms
Defined · Approved
Participation
Structure determined by agreement.
There is no standard deal here, and nothing on this page is an offer. These are the shapes a participation could take, to be negotiated project by project.
Conceptual — no economics are fixed or implied
Participation feeChallenge participationLikeness / voice licensingPromotional participationPrize sponsorshipDownstream project economicsDevelopment participationNegotiated project-specific terms
A star challenge, end to end
OpenFictional performer — not based on any real person
Ren Okafor
A fictional demonstration performer known for genre leads and stage work.
- Why she's participating
- Wants to see what a new generation of filmmakers does with a character she has never been offered.
- Challenge concept
- One room. One negotiator. One conversation that cannot be left.
- Approved character
- MARGUERITE VOSS — a hostage negotiator on her last shift, approved for likeness only.
- Creator mission
- Write her a scene nobody would have written for her before.
- Prize
- Demonstration prize — $60,000 development commitment
- Finalist review role
- Reviews the shortlist alongside HyperPilot curation.
- Premiere role
- Introduces the winning pilot at the Festival screening.
- Potential next step
- Selected projects may move toward expanded development — nothing is guaranteed.
Permission summary
Likeness, pilot onlyVoice excluded12-month termNamed project onlyCreator retains authorshipNo derivative training
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Permission
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Creative brief
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Creator interpretations
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Finalist review
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Approved premiere
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Potential development
Demonstration talent
Delphine Arrow
Fictional demonstration talent — prestige drama
Lent her voice to the First Contact challenge brief.
Voice, non-commercial pilots onlyLikeness excludedSingle challenge windowNo derivative training
Ren Okafor
Fictional demonstration talent — genre lead
Hosting the Small Worlds open call.
Likeness, pilot onlyVoice excluded12-month termCreator retains authorship
Ivo Strand
Fictional demonstration talent — character actor
Appears in Behind the Pilot.
Voice and likenessDocumentary appearance onlyNamed projects only