Professional Pitching for Documentaries
Record a Pitch
A course by Marco Spagnoli , Journalist, Screenwriter, and Documentary Director
About the video: Record a Pitch
Overview
“Walls have ears too, so I'll show you how to protect your story!”
In this video lesson Marco Spagnoli addresses the topic: Record a Pitch, 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
“Record a pitch In this lesson, we will see if and how to record your story from a legal point of view. Indeed, it is important have a chance to prove your legal and artistic authorship on the project. My friend, the director Gianni Amelio, says that even walls have ears, therefore, to avoid being in the unpleasant condition of having an idea or a story blown, it is good to record your story, your idea through a system that I am now about to show you. Not all stories need to be recorded. For example, mine on Giovanna Cau did not have this need because I had agreed with her every step and bei...”
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Course summary for: Professional Pitching for Documentaries
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Areas
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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