Professional Pitching for Documentaries
Differentiate: Solve Problems
A course by Marco Spagnoli , Journalist, Screenwriter, and Documentary Director
About the video: Differentiate: Solve Problems
Overview
“You can't always accomplish exactly what you have in mind, but you have to confront reality. In this lesson I will tell you about how I told differently about the stories that as they arose could not be told.”
In this video lesson Marco Spagnoli addresses the topic: Differentiate: Solve Problems, 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
“Differentiate: solve problems In this lesson, I want to offer you an exercise that will be useful for you in the realization of any project you will face, that is, imagine an alternate tale of parts or even your whole history, because this will help you eliminate obstacles or even to transform these obstacles in a new opportunity for storytelling. This is because it is not said that the solutions come from a positive approach, but also trivially imagine the story following a point of view opposite to the one you followed until that moment. Years ago, I had the opportunity to make a document...”
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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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