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GOOD PITCH REVIEW 2015 Good Pitch Hello Good Pitch 01 Review & Welcome Review Good Pitch Review Good Pitch brings together the best documentary filmmakers with leading changemakers around urgent social and HELLO environmental issues, to forge new coalitions and campaigns that are good for the films and good for society. If you have an interest GOOD PITCH IS A in film’s impact on social justice, the environment, PHENOMENAL OPPORTUNITY or any other pressing issue of our time, then you TO IDENTIFY SOCIAL ISSUES cannot miss Good Pitch. Reid Williams THAT NEED TO BE AMPLIFIED Threshold Foundation Good Pitch, like no other THROUGH THE POWER OF program, will connect you to the stories that bring life FILM AND COLLABORATION. to your mission. Mitch Markson Ogilvy Erin Sorenson Design by: Third Stage Consulting involveddesign.com Involved. 02 Good Pitch Good Pitch Good Pitch Good Pitch 03 Supporters Review Supporters Review Made by Partners Major Supporters DOBKIN FAMILY FOUNDATION JOAN & LEWIS PLATT FOUNDATION WYNCOTE AND ANONYMOUS FOUNDATION DONORS 04 Good Pitch Good Pitch 05 Review Review 06 Goals of Good Pitch Goals of Good Pitch 07 Good Pitch Review Good Pitch Review NGOS GOALS OF PHILANTHROPISTS BROADCASTERS GOOD PITCH FOUNDATIONS CAMPAIGNERS FILM FUELS CONNECTS Fuels the very best independent Connects changemakers with documentary filmmaking in the powerful films they can deploy world in their work MEDIA BRANDS FORGES BUILDS Forges new partnerships between Builds a global ‘good’ network filmmakers and changemakers of filmmakers and changemakers POLICYMAKERS from across civil society ENRICHES UNLOCKS Enriches the lives of individuals, Unlocks new investment and new transforms communities and audiences for documentary films improves societies 08 What’s The Good Pitch What’s The Good Pitch 09 Big Idea? Review Big Idea? Review The live events, filmmaker workshops, For each live event, a new group of impact producer labs, and online teaching documentary filmmakers is selected resources that fall under the Good Pitch to take part. These are exceptional global programme are devised and storytellers and independent journalists, FROM 197 FILM delivered by the team at documentary film capturing urgent global issues: from the organisation, BRITDOC. experience of school dropouts in Northern Europe to sexual assault, bullying and Providing creative and impact intimidation amongst youth and young PROJECTS PRESENTED, mentorship for documentary filmmakers. adults in the US; from transgender rights Building the capacity of a new in Turkey to the epic trial of a former generation of impact producers. Bosnian Serb military leader; from GOOD PITCH HAS Publishing the Impact Field Guide conflict and migration in South Sudan & Toolkit, the free online resource that to corruption and the destruction of guides the reader through the practical our natural environments through process of creating an impact campaign illegal logging in Borneo. CATALYSED OVER 1200 with a documentary film at its centre. All these activities are designed to Over a year, the film teams receive creative re-enforce, to energise and to future-proof mentorship to help develop their film, devise the independent filmmaker community. their impact strategy and identify potential NEW PARTNERSHIPS partners. At the climax of the live Good WHAT’S The Good Pitch live event, which sits at the Pitch event, they will have just 7 minutes heart of the programme, is an exciting to perfectly pitch their film and associated piece of highly choreographed public impact campaign and ignite collaborations performance. Bringing the world’s best with an exceptional group of participants. documentary filmmakers together with leading changemakers around urgent Participants in the audience at Good social and environmental issues, it forges Pitch hail from all sectors of civil society: new coalitions and campaigns that are foundations, NGOs, campaigners, good for the films and good for society. philanthropists, policymakers, brands and media. They bring to the table expert RAISED $23 MILLION IN FUNDS knowledge, access to memberships and mailing lists, campaigning and lobbying THE BIG expertise, connections to policymakers AT THE CLIMAX OF THE LIVE GOOD PITCH EVENT, THEY WILL HAVE JUST or corporate leaders, and new sources 7 MINUTES TO PERFECTLY PITCH of funding. They have been invited to Good Pitch THEIR FILM AND ASSOCIATED because of aligned social issues. They IMPACT CAMPAIGN – TO IGNITE have come to Good Pitch to imagine how they could collaborate with independent COLLABORATIONS WITH AN filmmakers, to be inspired by the power EXCEPTIONAL GROUP OF SPECIALLY of film. TRIGGERED 85 INVITED PARTICIPANTS. Good Pitch is where strategy is conceived, IDEA? coalitions are forged, deals struck and pacts IMPACT CAMPAIGNS made; where the unlikeliest of bedfellows are Since 2008 we have hosted met and won over; where filmmakers and flagship events in London, New York, changemakers spit on their hands and shake: Washington DC, San Francisco, Toronto, where change begins. AROUND THE WORLD Oslo and Chicago, with the model now spreading to Latin America, India, China, Working together with documentary East Africa, Southeast Asia and Australia filmmakers, we are a powerful force through the Good Pitch2 programme. for change. 010 Good Pitch Good Pitch 011 Review Review 12 Good Pitch Good Pitch Good Pitch 13 Overheard Review Review OVERHEARD Whatever change you’d Good Pitch is the best place to gain momentum and support for like to see in the world, an international impact campaign. GOOD PITCH IS AN GOOD PITCH HAS chances are there’s a Mark Edwards, ARTE France Good Pitch documentary The Good Pitch organisers have the best EXTRAORDINARY GROWN THE FIELD waiting for you to attitude and its tireless work is manifested contribute your ideas, your in the great outcomes of the pitches. Peter M. Mudamba, DOCUBOX OPPORTUNITY FOR IMMEASURABLY contacts, to your cash. It’s a chance to help make This invaluable initiative is a fantastic platform for connecting filmmakers FOUNDATIONS, NGOS, IN TERMS OF the change you want. with a broad range of organisations from across the NGO and charity fields, to Ruth Ann Harnisch broadcasters, distributors and funding FILMMAKERS, BRANDS RECOGNITION, The Harnisch Foundation bodies. I can’t think of another event which would have made connecting such a broad range of AND GREAT MOVERS COLLABORATION, Good Pitch amplifies the heart organisations so easy, productive and and soul of BRITDOC – an organisation pleasurable. Can’t recommend of passionate people enlivening it highly enough. AND SHAKERS TO AND FUNDING. passion in others. Matt Kemp, Greenpeace International Jessica Sweidan, Synchronicity Earth Eliza Licht, POV It’s a perfect way to be CONNECT AND LAUNCH Good Pitch is an essential gathering of the documentary and social impact inspired, have fun, learn community. I have never seen such a pure and meet people that can GREAT POSSIBILITIES! concentration of the best minds in the industry in one room. one way or another Bruni Burres, Sundance Institute Julia Pacetti, JMP Verdant influence your future. Randi Kvissel Haugen, PS:hotel 14 Good Pitch Good Pitch 15 Review Review KENYA INDIA SOUTHEAST ASIA AUSTRALIA ARGENTINA THE NETHERLANDS With increasing demand GOOD from around the world, TAKING we’ve developed the Good Pitch2 programme to share our learning SOUTH AFRICA 2 GOOD PITCH and build the capacity of regional organisations to host their own PITCH GLOBAL Good Pitch2 events. TAIWAN 16 Good Good Pitch Good Good Pitch 17 Pitch2 Review Pitch2 Review Organisations who want to produce Since 2011, Good Pitch2 events have a Good Pitch2 are invited to attend been hosted in Johannesburg, Buenos a flagship event and shadow the Aires, The Hague, Taipei, Mumbai and BRITDOC production team through Sydney, and we can now see the major filmmaker training as well as the live continental hubs emerging – driven by GOOD event, in order to fully evaluate the brilliant and tenacious partners at CNEX, model, assess the fiscal commitment the Indian Documentary Foundation and and decide if it is appropriate for Shark Island Institute amongst others. 2 their community. We are now working alongside the teams If it’s a good fit, then over the next at DOCUBOX in Nairobi and In-Docs in PITCH Jakarta to plan the next round of Good twelve months the BRITDOC team will 2 work closely with the regional team to Pitch events for 2016 and 2017. share our production toolkit, provide We are committed to building up a global advice on film selection as well as ‘good’ network of filmmakers and change connections to potential participants. organisations ready for collaboration, through our regional partners. A member of our team attends the live event as well as supporting the To get involved filmmaker training workshop. [email protected] 18 Good Good Pitch Good Good Pitch 19 Pitch2 Review Pitch2 Review AUSTRALIA ARGENTINA KENYA INDIA SOUTHEAST ASIA TAIWAN IAN DARLING NATASHA PAMPIN JUDY KIBINGE SOPHY SIVARAMAN AMELIA HAPSARI RUBY CHEN Executive Director, Shark Island Head of Production Executive Director Chief Executive Program Director Chief Operating Officer Productions and Shark Island Institute, Good Pitch2 Argentina DOCUBOX Indian Documentary Foundation In-Docs CNEX and Chair of Good Pitch2 Australia Good Pitch2 Argentina 2015 proved DOCUBOX is an East African It is rare to witness social change Southeast Asia is an emerging The Good Pitch2 in Taipei was a carefully Holding the event in Sydney in 2014 to have an incredible impact on the documentary film fund that offers the happening in front of your eyes. But region with passionate documentary planned and very well received event. and 2015 was perfect timing to have communities that each film reached emerging East African documentary that is just what happened at Good filmmakers telling important stories Two of the three doc projects went introduced the Good Pitch model to out to. Each project was able to take film community opportunities to learn, Pitch2 India in February 2014. that reflect on the region’s drive to live ahead with good support added as a Australia.
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