The Canadian Film Centre and CBC have announced three Canadian YouTubers selected to participate in the inaugural Jumping Screens Comedy Workshop, with a fourth participant to be selected at a later date.

The three YouTube creators selected to participate in the inaugural class are Harley and Darren Morenstein of NextTime Productions, the team behind the Epic Meal Time web and television series, LaToya Howard of the LaToya Forever YouTube channel, and Mikey Bustos, who is the star and creator of a YouTube channel by the same name.

The pre-development lab, unveiled by the CFC and CBC at the 2014 Buffer Festival Industry Day event, aims to help digital creators migrate their content to television and other “screens.” The workshop will run from June to November 2015 in Toronto, where the creators will refine their writing, characterization and story structure skills with the ultimate goal of developing a long-format TV series or digital first series for the CBC.

CBC creative executives, the CFC Media Lab and Toronto’s Aircraft Pictures will provide mentorship to the program participants.  The workshop is being presented in collaboration with Aircraft Pictures, which is the official production partner for the program.

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