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 have in common...
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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 these features, beyond...
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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. I was up...
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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 demand comes from...
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Richard Dreyfuss
American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Stand By Me, Mr. Holland’s Opus… even while reading like a what’s what of cinema, those titles are just a handful...
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Cold Piece of Work: Richard Linklater Braves Greenland Hurricanes for Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Richard Linklater’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette opens with the answer to its titular question. In an impressively executed overhead shot, the camera gazes down onto placid Antarctic waters as...
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How They Did It: The Farewell Writer-Director Lulu Wang Shares Secrets to Turning Your Life Story into a Memoir Movie
The week before production started on The Farewell—my sophomore feature about a young woman (Billi, played by Awkwafina) and her family’s attempts to keep their grandmother’s cancer diagnosis hidden...