About this Event
In this 90 minute interactive workshop, you'll learn how to transform a great idea into a project investors can get behind and will be eager to fund. We break down what goes into a film pitch through hands-on exercises, lectures, group participation and professional feedback. We get into the nitty-gritty of loglines, treatments, pitch decks, elevator pitches, and packaging. Then we put it into practice in real time.
The session closes with a live 2 minute showcase where selected participants pitch their projects for feedback from professionals as well as through audience voting via their phones.
What We'll Cover
- Loglines: Hook someone in one sentence
- Treatments: Convey your story, characters, and world in a few pages
- Elevator Pitches: Build a 30-90 second pitch that gets people interested to hear more
- Pitch Decks: What makes a deck compelling and what do financiers want to see
- Packaging: Bring your budget, schedule, & sizzle together as one investor-ready package
- Common Pitfalls: The mistakes that lose an investor before the before the pitch is over
- Live Pitch Round: Put your pitch to the test and get feedback from industry producers
Who Should Attend?
Writers, first-time directors, producers, emerging filmmakers, and film students who want to understand how projects move from an idea to something that can be produced, packaged, and funded. No prior pitching experience required.
Gautam Singhani is a NYC-based Line Producer & Post-Production Supervisor with 10+ years of experience across development, production, post, and distribution for features, series, and documentaries. He chairs the Post Production Committee at the Producers Guild of America (PGA) and is an active member of the Post New York Alliance (PNYA). Through his consulting practice, Gotoma, he partners one-on-one with filmmakers to make projects investor-ready: crafting budgets and schedules, supervising post, and advising on distribution.
His credits include THE BARBER OF LITTLE ROCK (Oscar nominee), ALLEN V. FARROW (Emmy nominee), BECOMING COUSTEAU (BAFTA nominee), and LIL NAS X: LONG LIVE MONTERO (GLAAD nominee). Most recently at RadicalMedia, he delivered BONO: STORIES OF SURRENDER, the Emmy-nominated immersive film created for Apple Vision Pro. He also produced BLACK AS U R (dir. Michael Rice) with Billy Porter and D.J. Gugenheim, securing support from Gilead Sciences and the U.S. Embassy.
Event venue & nearby stays
Freelancers Hub, 241 37th Street, Brooklyn, United States
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