All posts tagged "pitch"
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What Investors Want to Hear: Here Are the Things You Need to Be Telling Potential Financiers In Your Pitch
There are as many different ways to get funding as there are movies made, but the one thing all of those stories... -
A Rising Tide: San Diego Makes a Pitch to Be California’s Next Big Filmmaking Destination
Think “San Diego” and the first thing that comes to mind is glorious weather, white-sand beaches and authentic Mexican food. Turns out... -
Breaking the Ice (Cube): How Fist Fight Director Richie Keen Survived the Most Nerve-Wracking Pitch of His Life
At 3:15 p.m. on July 1, 2015, my agent called to tell me that Ice Cube wanted to meet me in person.... -
High Concept, A Recipe: The Four Essential Components to a High-Concept Pitch
The single most in-demand quality of a script is for it to be “high concept.” But what does that really mean? That...
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Mads Mikkelsen
From Star Wars to Marvel, from prestige TV (Hannibal) to high-profile Oscar contenders (At Eternity’s Gate), Mads Mikkelsen can be seen stretching his dramatic skills across the board these...Inside the Issue: Directing
The 2019 MovieMaker Sundance Survey: Eleven Sundance-Selected Films, and Their Mountain-Bound Makers
The 35th Sundance Film Festival received a record-breaking 14,000-plus submissions, with 4,000-plus feature-length films among them. Of the 112 features selected, 45 of their makers were first-timers. The fest’s...1Inside the Issue: How To
Breaking and Entering, Part One: How To Shoot Down Self-Doubt and Pay the Rent While Making It In the Film Industry
Becoming a moviemaker seemed like an impossibly ambitious goal when I was growing up. I was living in Brazil, watching bootleg copies of David Cronenberg films and, with...