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Making Pitch Decks That Hook

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Making Pitch Decks That Hook

Fri February 3rd 9am PT / 12pm ET

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Film Fatales held an online workshop about Making Pitch Decks That Hook with filmmaker Jenny Deller (writer-director, Future Weather and producer, Claire in Motion)—moderated by Film Fatales member Sekiya Dorsett (director, Stonewall 50).

In this workshop, filmmaker and designer Jenny Deller walked us through five simple steps to help you pre-visualize and pitch your film, music video, or TV series. We learned the latest ideas to help showrunners, directors, and producers advance their projects and walk away with some basic concepts, design tips, and resources to get your pitches off to a great start this spring. Jenny‘s decks have assisted award-winning film, television, and commercial creators’ land work for Warner Brothers, HBOMax, Showtime, AppleTV+, TNT, and USA Networks, as well as national brands like Toyota, Cox, Amazon, and Home Depot. With support from event partners The Big Apple Film Festival, NYWIFT, PANO, Seed&Spark, and NFMLA.

Details

Date:: February 3, 2023
Event Categories:: Directors, Marketing

Details

Date:: February 3, 2023
Event Categories:: Directors, Marketing

Additional Resources

Hollywood Creative Directory

Runaway AI Magic Tools

Panelists

Jenny Deller is a filmmaker and designer who loves helping fellow creators take the first step in launching their visions. Crafted to immerse viewers in story and tone, her pitch decks have assisted award-winning film, television, and commercial creators land work for Warner Brothers, HBOMax, Showtime, AppleTV+, TNT, and USA Networks, as well as national brands like Toyota, Cox, Amazon, and Home Depot. Her debut feature as writer-director, Future Weather, stars Amy Madigan, Lili Taylor, Marin Ireland, and Perla Haney-Jardine. It premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and was distributed worldwide. While in development, Future Weather received the Showtime Tony Cox Award for Screenwriting and three grants from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for its unique exploration of climate change. Most recently, she produced the independent thriller Claire in Motion (SXSW) starring Betsy Brandt and co-directed by Annie Howell and Lisa Robinson. Her work has been supported by Film Independent, The Gotham, Netflix, Women in Film, and The Wexner Center.

GLAAD Award-winning filmmaker, Sekiya Dorsett, is dedicated to telling the stories of women of color. Her award-winning documentary, The Revival: Women and the Word, is distributed by Women Make Movies. In 2020, her 4-part documentary, Stonewall 50: The Revolution, in partnership with NBC News and NBCOut, won a GLAAD Media Award and the NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ Journalists for Excellence in Digital Journalism. She is one of the cinematographers for In Our Mother’s Gardens on Netflix. Dorsett‘s work has been featured at the Tribeca Film Festival, Urbanworld Film Festival, the Brooklyn Museum, Frameline Film Fest, and Outfest Film Festival, to name a few. She is a member of the Brown Girls Doc Mafia. Sekiya‘s work centers on the Black experience.

Event Partners

The Big Apple Film Festival is dedicated to showcasing and promoting the highest quality films from the New York City independent film community, as well as additional specially selected films from across the country and around the world. Additionally, the festival is proud to honor a variety of New York City based filmmakers, writers, actors and artists who have played an iMluential role in the growth of independent filmmaking in the Big Apple. Each season, BAFF presents awards in a various categories in filmmaking and screenwriting.

NewFilmmakers Los Angeles (NFMLA) is a non-profit 501(c) 3 organization that champions emerging and diverse filmmakers and storytellers from around the world and provides a forum where filmmakers can be recognized for their contributions, have open audience discussions about their work and connect with industry professionals for insight on distribution, production and representation.

In an effort to showcase, support, educate and build relationships for next-gen filmmakers, NFMLA has rapidly expanded beyond the NFMLA Monthly Film Festival to host an array of workshops, panels, competitions and networking programs, including the InFocus initiative which combats the lack of diversity in media by celebrating underrepresented voices.

New York Women in Film & Television (NYWIFT) connects, educates, and advocates for women to accelerate diversity in media. As the preeminent entertainment industry association for women in New York, NYWIFT energizes women by illuminating their achievements, presenting training and professional development programs, awarding scholarships and grants, and providing access to a supportive community of peers. NYWIFT brings together more than 2,500 women and men working both above and below the line. NYWIFT is part of a network of 60 women in film organizations worldwide, representing more than 15,000 members. NYWIFT is a nonprofit 501c3 public charity.

PANO (formerly NYCWF) champions inclusion in Film, TV, and Media by connecting underrepresented creators with influential networks, valuable resources, and career-changing opportunities to impact meaningful change in the industry.

Seed&Spark is where creators and audiences work together to tell stories that celebrate diverse voices and foster vibrant conversation. Find your next spark of curiosity, inspiration and community!