The jury has spoken: Conor McCreery and Anthony Del Col on Tuesday won the Telefilm Canada Pitch This! competition with Kill Shakespeare, a live-action film and multimedia mash-up inspired by the famed poet’s characters.

The co-creators snagged $10,000 in development funds for their project during the 11th annual pitch competition at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Kill Shakespeare will see heroes and knaves from Shakespeare’s classic stage plays in a supernatural adventure tale.

The project started as a comic series, most recently evolved into a multimedia project, and McCreery and Del Col are now pitching Kill Shakespeare to prospective financiers as a feature film.

The duo went up against five other teams that each had six minutes to pitch their projects.