Overview of Pitch and promote a documentary film project

Target audience: documentary film directors with a work-in-progress project (both in wrinting or in production phase).

Goals

  • Be able to present a documentary film project with clarity, concision and efficiency, adapted to your style and to your contact. Different presentation situtations will be tested: forum, round-table, informal meeting.
  • Justify and argue your artistic and narrative choices.
  • Defend the story told, its originality, its impact on the audience.
  • Receive guidance on the trailer or a selection of exploratory film rushes.
  • Prepare bief writtent documents accompanying an oral pitch.
  • Situate both the project and yourself in the current documentary production ecosystem (roles and specificities of coproducers, distributors, broadcasters).
  • Present your project in a round-table pitching session to a panel of professionnals and get their feedback.

Information

This workshop is opened only to French-fluent participants who will work on a French-written documents and a French-speaking pitching session.
Here is the full and updated presentation in French, with admission process infos and dates, session dates, application and tuition fees, etc.