In 2010 the Good Pitch will be visiting Tribeca, Silverdocs, San Francisco and London.
If you or someone else in your organisation would like to be part of the event, please contact our Outreach Directors.
Sandi DuBowski in the US:
Sarah Ross in the UK:
ABOUT THE GOOD PITCH
Documentary is a powerful tool for creating social change. But only by working with the right partners can filmmakers create real impact and ensure that ambitious, issue-driven films get made, find audiences and inspire and enable participation. The ambition to create powerful coalitions around films is why we created the Good Pitch, an evolution in the traditional pitch format.
The Good Pitch is a one-day live event bringing together specially selected foundations, NGOs, social entrepreneurs, broadcasters and potential corporate and brand partners to form powerful alliances around groundbreaking films. 8 filmmaking teams will pitch their film and its associated outreach campaign to the assembled audience with the aim of creating a unique coalition around each film to maximise its impact and influence.
THE BACKSTORY
In July 2008, at the BRITDOC Film Festival, we conducted an experiment; to shake up the traditional pitching forum format - long used by public broadcast funders for identifying new film projects – and expand the audience to include foundations, charities and NGOs to the table. Eight projects were pitched, including Resist, authored by film star Gael Garcia Bernal, who took part in the live pitching process.
The day was a revelation. Here was a forum that could facilitate the powerful convergence of interests between issue-based organizations, documentary storytellers, and broadcaster/funders/distributors, all hungry for relevant, moving stories of our current realities.
By evolving the format, the Good Pitch could provide a unique opportunity for all sectors to share information, present the latest contemporary-issue projects, and build strategic and successful engagement campaigns.
The Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program, who participated in our fledgling Good Pitch, agreed with us that an event like this held the key to the future of film and outreach funding.
A partnership was born – the Good Pitch, imagined by the Channel 4 BRITDOC Foundation and Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program
THE GOOD PITCH NORTH AMERICA
2009 saw the Good Pitch embark upon a tour of North America and the UK, supported by The Fledgling Fund, Chicken and Egg Pictures, Tides Foundation and anonymous donors, with campaign development for filmmakers provided by Working Films. The innovative pitching forum took place as part of the TDF at Hot Docs in Toronto, the AFI-Discovery Channel SILVERDOCS Documentary Festival and IFP's Independent Film Week as well as the Good Pitch UK, a stand-alone event held at Amnesty International in London. Please click on the links to find out more about 2009’s events including photos, feedback and project line-up.
In 2010, the Tribeca Film Institute hosted the first Good Pitch event of 2010. The event took place during the Tribeca Film Festival on April 27 2010, and you can see the project lineup and how the event went on the Good Pitch @ Tribeca webpage.
The second Good Pitch of 2010 took place at the AFI-Discovery Channel SILVERDOCS Documentary Festival on June 23. You can see how the event went at the Good Pitch @ Silverdocs webpage.
Our next event is The Good Pitch UK 2010, taking place at the Royal Insitution of Great Britain in London on September 10 2010. Find out more here.
The final event of 2010 is The Good Pitch at SOCAP, in San Francisco on Sunday 3 October. Find out more here.
Marc Silver and Gael Garcia Bernal pitching at the first Good Pitch in 2008.
