Professional Pitching for Documentaries
About Me
A course by Marco Spagnoli , Journalist, Screenwriter, and Documentary Director
About the video: About Me
Overview
“My name is Marco Spagnoli and in this lesson I will tell you the path that, through a series of coincidences, led me to do this job. At the beginning, in fact, I wanted to be a Lawyer of the Sea and go to London to study, but my father instead forced me to choose engineering. Then, my life changed: I started working as a radio technician and I became passionate about both journalism and writing about cinema and cinema.”
In this video lesson Marco Spagnoli addresses the topic: About Me, which is part of the Domestika online course: Professional Pitching for Documentaries. Learn to draft a clear and effective pitch to present your documentary and tell a story from an original point of view.
Partial transcription of the video
“Presentation Bye! My name is Marco Spagnoli, I am a journalist, a screenwriter and a documentary director. My path has not been linear. At the end of high school, I wanted to be a lawyer, but my father asked me to study engineering and a series of circumstances due ... to the sudden disappearance of both my parents, they forced me to start working. I was working in a radio and studying philosophy at the same time. In addition to graduating, I became passionate about film journalism and so, slowly, I began to collaborate with various newspapers and to offer the public several interviews with...”
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Course summary for: Professional Pitching for Documentaries
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Film, Film, Video & TV, Script, Storytelling, Writing
Marco Spagnoli
A course by Marco Spagnoli
Marco Spagnoli is a journalist, screenwriter, and documentary director. Although he studied engineering, through a series of events he ended up working in radio, which led him to film journalism and gave him an insider's view of the film industry, as well as the opportunity to personally meet famous directors and industry professionals.
He later began to frequent film festivals and in 2000 started writing for the magazine Giornale dello Spettacolo, eventually rising to the position of director. In 2009, he filmed the documentary Hollywood sul Tevere, which launched his career as a documentary director. Since then, he's produced over 40 projects, some of which have been featured on Netflix and Amazon Prime Video.
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