Professional Pitching for Documentaries
The Reason Why
A course by Marco Spagnoli , Journalist, Screenwriter, and Documentary Director
About the video: The Reason Why
Overview
“Now I will show you how to better justify or explain to your interlocutor why they should believe in your film.”
In this video lesson Marco Spagnoli addresses the topic: The Reason Why, 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
“The reason why Among the documents that you will always be asked for from your interlocutors, producers, distributors, from broadcasters and possible financiers, there is a document that takes different names: visual approach, director's notes, director's statements. We prefer to call it "reason why", because it helps you to better understand exactly the reasons that you have to turn into writing. In this lesson, let's go over my motivations in Giovanna Cau's approach to history. "The documentary on Giovanna Cau was born from two joint factors at the temporal level: on the one hand, his ava...”
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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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