
Wim Vanacker
Director, scriptwriter, pitching expert


Pitching Training
Online, October 26-30, 2023
This is an online crash course in pitching, from international experts who will teach you how to present a project, analyze its strengths and weaknesses, create a promotional strategy for a film, and plan a roadmap for your professional development. International markets and pitching events are key platforms for meetings between filmmakers and the people who may end up financing projects: festival selectors, representatives of film endowments, production companies, and online platforms. At pitching events, filmmakers tend to find like-minded people, partners, and financing. In short, they build their professional future. Do you want to find out how you can attend such an event? Learn how to write an ideal application? How to structure your speech or what you need to say to be remembered?
During the four-day online crash course, participants will find out how to present their projects to any audience, and learn about the institutes and programs that will help them find financing and partners. The course instructors draw on many years of experience of working with international film festivals and training programs.
One feature and one documentary project will receive a special industry award and the opportunity to participate in our partner's EFM Toolbox programs. Among the 58 other participants worldwide, two filmmakers from Central Asia will participate in the Doc Toolbox and Fiction Toolbox programs in the winter of 2024. Producers of the selected projects will participate in online workshops, receive online consultations, and attend the European Film Market in Berlin. Alternativa Film Labs covers all costs.
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