Creating Film Projects from Scratch
Pitching
A course by Sergio Castro San Martin , Filmmaker and Photographer
Joined April 2021
About the video: Pitching
Overview
“Below, I'll share with you some tips for distributing and displaying your address book once you've finished it.”
In this video lesson Sergio Castro San Martin addresses the topic: Pitching, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creating Film Projects from Scratch. Develop an original movie idea and put together a director’s folder for a fiction film, documentary, short film, or TV series.
Partial transcription of the video
“Pitching In this lesson I will teach you how to bring it to life to your address folder. I want to start by giving you some tips on what to do with your address folder. Once you have your address folder list and exported, you save it to be able to print it and thus be able to transport it, show it and socialize it. You can also reduce that size to a size that allows you to send it via email. Your address folder is the first sketch of your project. That doesn't mean you stop working on the other items. that you have already been working. Your tagline can be transformed, your storyline too, t...”
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Course summary for: Creating Film Projects from Scratch
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Category
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Areas
Creative Writing, Film, Film, Video & TV, Filmmaking, Narrative, Script

Sergio Castro San Martin
A course by Sergio Castro San Martin
Sergio Castro San Martín is a photographer and filmmaker. He graduated as a director from the Escuela de Cine de Chile with his thesis film Paseo, which won Best Chilean Film at the 2009 Sanfic.
His next major breakthrough came on the heels of his 2015 feature-length film La Mujer de Barro, which propelled him to the international stage at Berlinale and the San Sebastián International Film Festival. In 2019, he directed the full-length documentary El Negro and joined forces with Lucía Puenzo to codirect his first fiction drama series La Jauría, featured on Amazon Prime. In 2022, he codirected the first Chilean TV show for Disney alongside Pepa San Martín and directed the fiction film El Gol Más Triste, as well as his first international film Il Cileno.
He's been a member of the Chilean Film Academy since 2020 and is also a film professor at several universities where he teaches film production, editing, scriptwriting, and title design.
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