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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

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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, , where change begins. AROUND THE WORLD Oslo and , with the model now spreading to Latin America, , 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, Julia Pacetti, JMP Verdant influence your future. Randi Kvissel Haugen, PS:hotel 14 Good Pitch Good Pitch 15 Review Review INDIA SOUTHEAST ASIA AUSTRALIA 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 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

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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. Much of the groundwork had their film to a new level, make valuable exchange ideas, network and benefit in balance between development and result of the event. As it was the first been done. Since 2008, both Shark contacts and learn about the concept from a nurturing and supportive Documentary in India has had almost social justice. one we were involved in from CNEX, Island Institute and Documentary of impact production. network through financial support for a no independent funding, and has not we’ve learned a lot and we are very sure Australia Foundation have been competitively selected documentary film been seen as a driver of social change. Good Pitch2 Southeast Asia, that it could work well continuously, as more working closely with the philanthropic For this second edition, the live event projects, mentorship and monthly film Good Pitch2 demonstrated in one day will take place in 2017, is an important and more attention is now directed to and nonprofit sector, strategically was hosted at Teatro Picadero, a historic screenings. that stories are powerful, and can platform for strengthening collaborations documentary films. creating partnerships with outstanding independent theatre in the heart engage and motivate people. It also and forging new partnerships with documentaries and filmmakers. There is of Buenos Aires, while the pitching Good Pitch2 Kenya 2016 will present us showed that partnerships and alliances strategic stakeholders that ensure now a deeper understanding in Australia workshops took place at the British with the opportunity to shine a spotlight between the public and private sector, great documentaries achieve their about the power of documentary, and Council’s headquarters in Buenos Aires. on the importance of Documentary Film NGOs and corporates, can not only be impact in society. the importance of working to create for social change and also showcase achieved, but will be stronger and more powerful coalitions around important The Good Pitch model is key for the outstanding African film talent. We look effective than each working alone. social issues. Latin American filmmaking community. forward to inspiring a new generation Our goal is to develop a training strategy of African philanthropists to support Good Pitch2 India was just a that reaches out to filmmakers across documentary filmmaking. beginning, and we are convinced that the continent. we can be a driver of social and cultural change by sustaining Good Pitch over a number of years. 20 The Impact Field Good Pitch The Impact Field Good Pitch 21 Guide & Toolkit Review Guide & Toolkit Review FIELD GUIDE

The Impact Field Guide together with a broad theoretical base and some of the most interesting case studies & Toolkit is a free online from the last decade, and the result is a resource designed to help tool for the development and implementation of really effective anyone working with film impact campaigns. make an even greater The guide is intended to offer ideas impact. and approaches so that you don’t have to solve a problem that someone else To make the guide, we’ve drawn has already cracked. on the work of all our own collaborations, and been informed by conversations, Having launched in June 2014, agreements and disagreements with it is currently used by over 10,000 incredibly smart filmmakers, activists and campaign film teams, activists, funders and groups in more than 25 countries. partners from all over the world. And to extend the reach of the work, we are working on Spanish and Mandarin Putting that experience of using film versions which will be at the heart of impact campaigns available in 2016.

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“You have impressively collected so many of the great resources I’ve seen on this topic, and your guidance reflects Heather Craig A Total Disruption Picture Motion @_hhcraig @TotalDisruption @Picture_Motion the work. This is Resource for evaluating Awesome guide to Work in impact film? social impact of film: giving your film more Make sure you read the such an important BRITDOC’s Impact #social impact – The Distributing & Evaluating Field Guide and Toolkit Impact Field Guide modules of the @ contribution!” impactguide.org j.mp/1JQiKLe @britdoc britdoc Impact Field #iga380 #leancontent Guide. impactguide.org Caty Borum Chattoo Center for Media & Social Impact, American University 24 Kudos Good Pitch Kudos Good Pitch 25 Review Review

Kudos to the Good Pitch alumni whose films have screened and won awards internationally over the KUDOS past 12 months.

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Virunga American Promise (3!) (T)ERROR Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, (T)ERROR (T)ERROR 17 Not Required Indians Democrats Bully 3.5 Minutes, 10 Bullets American Promise, Call Me 3.5 Minutes, 10 Bullets Democrats 3.5 Minutes, 10 Bullets Ida’s Diary Private Violence Dreamcatcher Kuchu, Citizen Koch, Crime Dreamcatcher Dreamcatcher The Genius of Marian That Sugar Film The State of Arizona After Crime, Detropia, Frackman Gayby Baby Casablanca Calling Virunga Virunga (2!) Dirty Wars, How To Survive Gayby Baby Radical Grace Oil & Water A Plague, Gideon’s Army, Give The Homestretch Speed Sisters Bully Up Tomorrow, God Loves The Hunting Ground The Homestretch Uganda, Monica & David, Radical Grace Project Wild Thing, Remote Rebels! Area Medical, Saving Face, That Sugar Film The Genius of Marian, The House I Live In, , The Island President, The New Black, The Square, Town of Runners, Virunga, Who Is Dayani Cristal? 26 Facts Good Pitch Facts Good Pitch 27 & Figures Review & Figures Review

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BUDRUS (FORMERLY BUDRUS HAS A HAMMER) BULLY (FORMERLY THE BULLY PROJECT) BURDEN OF PEACE BURMA SOLDIER CALL ME DAD CALL ME KUCHU CANARY IN A COALMINE CAPE SPIN: AN AMERICAN POWER STRUGGLE (FORMERLY CAPE WIND) CARE CASABLANCA CALLING CITIZEN KOCH (FORMERLY CITIZEN CORP) COCAINE PRISON COCAINE UNWRAPPED (FORMERLY NOT ON THE LABEL) COLLEGE BEHIND BARS CONSTANCE ON THE EDGE COOKED CRASH REEL (FORMERLY UNTITLED SNOWBOARDING DOCUMENTARY) CRIME AFTER CRIME DANCING IN JAFFA DAWN OF NEW DAY DEAR MANDELA DEMOCRATS DETROPIA (FORMERLY DETROIT HUSTLES HARDER) DEVIL’S LIAR DIRTY MONEY DIRTY WARS DISRUPTION DRIVING WITH SELVI EASY LIKE WATER EL VALS DE LOS INÚTILES ERASING DAVID ESCAPE FIRE FIREFLIES IN THE ABYSS FISH FIGHT EUROPE FRACKMAN FROM THIS DAY FORWARD GABY BABY GARBAGE DREAMS GIDEON’S ARMY GIVE UP TOMORROW GOD LOVES UGANDA GREEN SHALL OVERCOME GREEN, GREEN, GREEN GROWN UPS GUARDIAN OF UGANDA’S GENTLE GIANTS HAPPY SAD MAN HAZING HELL & BACK AGAIN HERMAN’S HOUSE (FORMERLY THE HOUSE THAT HERMAN BUILT) HIGH TECH, LOW LIFE HOW TO RE-ESTABLISH A VODKA EMPIRE HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE IDA’S DIARY IF YOU BUILD IT (FORMERLY STUDIO H) IN THE COMPANY OF BEES INEQUALITY FOR ALL INOCENTE JUDGMENT IN HUNGARY JUSTICE FOR SALE KAPUTT LAND RUSH (FORMERLY THE NEXT HARVEST) LITTLE HEAVEN LOGS OF WAR LOOK LOVE LOVE COMMANDOS LOVE FREE OR DIE (FORMERLY THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE) LUST FOR LIFE (FORMERLY DANCING WITH HUGO BOSS) MASS E BHAT MEN FROM ATLANTIS MONICA AND DAVID MOVING TO MARS MUJERES CON PELOTAS MY NEIGHBOURHOOD NEWTOWN, A DOCUMENTARY NO FIRE ZONE (FORMERLY THE KILLING FIELDS OF SRI LANKA) NOT IN OUR TOWN: LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS NOTES ON BLINDNESS NTSIKA NUEVA VENECIA OIL AND WATER ON RICHARD’S SIDE ON THE STREETS ONE MILE AWAY OPEN BETHLEHEM (FORMERLY THE ROAD TO BETHLEHEM) OUR SCHOOL OUT IN THE SILENCE PIG BUSINESS PING PONG PRISON SONGS PRIVATE VIOLENCE PROJECT WILD THING (FORMERLY THE NATURE PROJECT) PUSHING THE ELEPHANT (FORMERLY ROSE & NANGABIRE) QUIPU RADICAL GRACE (FORMERLY SISTER) RAFEA: SOLAR MAMA (FORMERLY BAREFOOT ENGINEERS) RAISING BERTIE REBELS! REMOTE AREA MEDICAL REPORTERO RESILIENT RESIST ROLL RED ROLL ROMEO IS BLEEDING ROOTING FOR ROONA SAVING FACE SEED: THE UNTOLD STORY SEVENTEEN SPEED SISTERS SPLIT ESTATE STATE BUILDERS STRONG ISLAND SUMERCÉ TERRITORIOS THAT SUGAR FILM THE ANDERSON MONARCHS THE BORNEO CASE THE DAY AFTER PEACE THE DREAM OF SHEHREZADE THE DREAMCATCHERS THE FLAW THE GENIUS OF MARIAN THE HAND THAT FEEDS THE HOMESTRETCH THE HOUSE I LIVE IN THE HUNTING GROUND THE INTERRUPTERS THE INVISIBLE WAR THE ISLAND AND THE WHALES THE ISLAND PRESIDENT (FORMERLY HIGHER GROUND) THE LIST (FORMERLY THE PROMISE OF FREEDOM) THE MARKET MAKER THE NEW BLACK THE OPPOSITION THE POSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS (FORMERLY IN YOUR VOICE, IN YOUR HEART) THE RECKONING THE RETURN THE REVOLUTIONARY OPTIMISTS THE SHADOW WORLD THE SPECIAL NEED THE SQUARE THE STATE OF ARIZONA THE SUPREME PRICE THE TRIAL OF RATKO MLADIC THE UNDERWATER PITCH THE UNDOCUMENTED (FORMERLY RESOLUTION 07-609) THE UNFORGETTABLE THE YES MEN ARE REVOLTING THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING (FORMERLY THE MESSAGE) TO BE HEARD/POWER POETRY TO CATCH A DOLLAR TOWN OF RUNNERS TRANS X ISTANBUL TURKEY CREEK UNTITLED PARTNERS IN HEALTH DOCUMENTARY UP IN SMOKE (FORMERLY BURNING NEEDS) URANIUM DRIVE-IN VIRUNGA (FORMERLY UNTITLED GORILLA PROJECT) WE ARE MANY WE THE PEOPLE WHAT TOMORROW BRINGS WHITELEY WHO IS DAYANI CRISTAL? WHOSE STREETS? WILLIAM AND THE WINDMILL (FORMERLY MOVING WINDMILLS) YOUNG LAKOTA YOUTHBUILD ZACH’S CEREMONY ZHINAN: ARCHITECTS OF THE NEW IRAQ (T)ERROR 17 NOT REQUIRED INDIANS 25 TO LIFE 3 1/2 MINUTES A HAUNTING HISTORY A PLACE AT THE TABLE (FORMERLY FINDING NORTH/ HUNGRY IN AMERICA) A SMALL ACT A VERY DANGEROUS MAN A WHOLE LOTT MORE AFTER THE APOCALYPSE AI WEIWEI: NEVER SORRY ALMOST SUNRISE AMERICAN PROMISE AMERICAN VILLAGE AN AFRICAN SPRING ANATOMY OF POVERTY BECOMING BULLETPROOF BEYOND TOURETTE BIG BOYS GONE BANANAS!* BLUE BLUE ID BORDER WITHIN BORDER BRICK BRIGADA BROOKLYN CASTLE BROWN GOLD (FORMERLY $H*T!) BUDRUS (FORMERLY BUDRUS HAS A HAMMER) BULLY (FORMERLY THE BULLY PROJECT) BURDEN OF PEACE BURMA SOLDIER CALL ME DAD CALL ME KUCHU CANARY IN A COALMINE CAPE SPIN: AN AMERICAN POWER STRUGGLE (FORMERLY CAPE WIND) CARE CASABLANCA CALLING CITIZEN KOCH (FORMERLY CITIZEN CORP) COCAINE PRISON COCAINE UNWRAPPED (FORMERLY NOT ON THE LABEL) COLLEGE BEHIND BARS CONSTANCE ON THE EDGE COOKED CRASH REEL (FORMERLY UNTITLED SNOWBOARDING DOCUMENTARY) CRIME AFTER CRIME DANCING IN JAFFA DAWN OF NEW DAY DEAR MANDELA DEMOCRATS DETROPIA (FORMERLY DETROIT HUSTLES HARDER) DEVIL’S LIAR DIRTY MONEY DIRTY WARS DISRUPTION DRIVING WITH SELVI EASY LIKE WATER EL VALS DE LOS INÚTILES ERASING DAVID ESCAPE FIRE FIREFLIES IN THE ABYSS FISH FIGHT EUROPE FRACKMAN FROM THIS DAY FORWARD GABY BABY GARBAGE DREAMS GIDEON’S ARMY GIVE UP TOMORROW GOD LOVES UGANDA GREEN SHALL OVERCOME GREEN, GREEN, GREEN GROWN UPS GUARDIAN OF UGANDA’S GENTLE GIANTS HAPPY SAD MAN HAZING HELL & BACK AGAIN HERMAN’S HOUSE (FORMERLY THE HOUSE THAT HERMAN BUILT) HIGH TECH, LOW LIFE HOW TO RE-ESTABLISH A VODKA EMPIRE HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE IDA’S DIARY IF YOU BUILD IT (FORMERLY STUDIO H) IN THE COMPANY OF BEES INEQUALITY FOR ALL INOCENTE JUDGMENT IN HUNGARY JUSTICE FOR SALE KAPUTT LAND RUSH (FORMERLY THE NEXT HARVEST) LITTLE HEAVEN LOGS OF WAR LOOK LOVE LOVE COMMANDOS LOVE FREE OR DIE (FORMERLY THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE) LUST FOR LIFE (FORMERLY DANCING WITH HUGO BOSS) MASS E BHAT MEN FROM ATLANTIS MONICA AND DAVID MOVING TO MARS MUJERES CON PELOTAS MY NEIGHBOURHOOD NEWTOWN, A DOCUMENTARY NO FIRE ZONE (FORMERLY THE KILLING FIELDS OF SRI LANKA) NOT IN OUR TOWN: LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS NOTES ON BLINDNESS NTSIKA NUEVA VENECIA OIL AND WATER ON RICHARD’S SIDE ON THE STREETS ONE MILE AWAY OPEN BETHLEHEM (FORMERLY THE ROAD TO BETHLEHEM) OUR SCHOOL OUT IN THE SILENCE PIG BUSINESS PING PONG PRISON SONGS PRIVATE VIOLENCE PROJECT WILD THING (FORMERLY THE NATURE PROJECT) PUSHING THE ELEPHANT (FORMERLY ROSE & NANGABIRE) QUIPU RADICAL GRACE (FORMERLY SISTER) RAFEA: SOLAR MAMA (FORMERLY BAREFOOT ENGINEERS) RAISING BERTIE REBELS! REMOTE AREA MEDICAL REPORTERO RESILIENT RESIST ROLL RED ROLL ROMEO IS BLEEDING ROOTING FOR ROONA SAVING FACE SEED: THE UNTOLD STORY SEVENTEEN SPEED SISTERS SPLIT ESTATE STATE BUILDERS STRONG ISLAND SUMERCÉ TERRITORIOS THAT SUGAR FILM THE ANDERSON MONARCHS THE BORNEO CASE THE DAY AFTER PEACE THE DREAM OF SHEHREZADE THE DREAMCATCHERS THE FLAW THE GENIUS OF MARIAN THE HAND THAT FEEDS THE HOMESTRETCH THE HOUSE I LIVE IN THE HUNTING GROUND THE INTERRUPTERS THE INVISIBLE WAR THE ISLAND AND THE WHALES THE ISLAND PRESIDENT (FORMERLY HIGHER GROUND) THE LIST (FORMERLY THE PROMISE OF FREEDOM) THE MARKET MAKER THE NEW BLACK THE OPPOSITION THE POSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS (FORMERLY IN YOUR VOICE, IN YOUR HEART) THE RECKONING THE RETURN THE REVOLUTIONARY OPTIMISTS THE SHADOW WORLD THE SPECIAL NEED THE SQUARE THE STATE OF ARIZONA THE SUPREME PRICE THE TRIAL OF RATKO MLADIC THE UNDERWATER PITCH THE UNDOCUMENTED (FORMERLY RESOLUTION 07-609) THE UNFORGETTABLE THE YES MEN ARE REVOLTING THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING (FORMERLY THE MESSAGE) TO BE HEARD/POWER POETRY TO CATCH A DOLLAR TOWN OF RUNNERS TRANS X ISTANBUL TURKEY CREEK UNTITLED PARTNERS IN HEALTH DOCUMENTARY UP IN SMOKE (FORMERLY BURNING NEEDS) URANIUM DRIVE-IN VIRUNGA (FORMERLY UNTITLED GORILLA PROJECT) WE ARE MANY WE THE PEOPLE WHAT TOMORROW BRINGS WHITELEY WHO IS DAYANI CRISTAL? WHOSE STREETS? WILLIAM AND THE WINDMILL (FORMERLY MOVING WINDMILLS) YOUNG LAKOTA YOUTHBUILD ZACH’S CEREMONY ZHINAN: ARCHITECTS OF THE NEW IRAQ (T)ERROR 17 NOT REQUIRED INDIANS 25 TO LIFE 3 1/2 MINUTES A HAUNTING HISTORY A PLACE AT THE TABLE (FORMERLY FINDING NORTH/HUNGRY IN AMERICA) A SMALL ACT A VERY DANGEROUS MAN A WHOLE LOTT MORE AFTER THE APOCALYPSE AI WEIWEI: NEVER SORRY ALMOST SUNRISE AMERICAN PROMISE AMERICAN VILLAGE AN AFRICAN SPRING ANATOMY OF POVERTY BECOMING BULLETPROOF BEYOND TOURETTE BIG BOYS GONE BANANAS!* BLUE BLUE ID BORDER WITHIN BORDER BRICK BRIGADA BROOKLYN CASTLE BROWN GOLD (FORMERLY $H*T!) BUDRUS (FORMERLY BUDRUS HAS A HAMMER) BULLY (FORMERLY THE BULLY PROJECT) BURDEN OF PEACE BURMA SOLDIER CALL ME DAD CALL ME KUCHU CANARY IN A COALMINE CAPE SPIN: AN AMERICAN POWER STRUGGLE (FORMERLY CAPE WIND) CARE CASABLANCA CALLING CITIZEN KOCH (FORMERLY CITIZEN CORP) COCAINE PRISON COCAINE UNWRAPPED (FORMERLY NOT ON THE LABEL) COLLEGE BEHIND BARS CONSTANCE ON THE EDGE COOKED CRASH REEL (FORMERLY UNTITLED SNOWBOARDING DOCUMENTARY) CRIME AFTER CRIME DANCING IN JAFFA DAWN OF NEW DAY DEAR MANDELA DEMOCRATS DETROPIA (FORMERLY DETROIT HUSTLES HARDER) DEVIL’S LIAR 34 Facts Good Pitch Facts Good Pitch 35 & Figures Review & Figures Review

As an accelerator for building The Good Pitch experience was awesome and Thank you all so, so, so much for an tremendous. Workshops were critical in formulating INCREDIBLE Good Pitch! I was so blown critical support for and message and language around the impact campaign. away by the experience, I haven’t been investment in the success Relationships formed were extraordinary. We were able to stop talking about it since. It was of a film, Good Pitch is able to generate huge interest and support for when so powerful to share the film with such the film is finished and we are ready to launch. We a loving and supportive audience, and we unparalleled. We developed also conducted a “Brain Trust” the following day were deeply inspired by the experience. several key relationships and and invited key partners and funders for deep I think it really re-energized us, and we discussions. This was a critical part of our research couldn’t be more excited about getting creative partnerships that have and development and will inform the building the film out into the world now.” lasted long after the events of our impact campaign. Martha Shane Marty Syjuco Producer of From This Day Forward ended, sparking significant Producer of Almost Sunrise visibility for our films and Good Pitch gave us a wonderful opportunity to contributing to the ultimate workshop our concepts for outreach, and ultimately It has been an eye opener. impact we wanted to make. come out the far end of the weekend with a scalable A fantastic experience Good Pitch is a must for and measurable campaign, as well as the start up funds to build the key elements. which has led me to see documentary filmmakers hoping Jason Zeldes a whole new world for to put their films to work after Director of Romeo is Bleeding future relationship the lights go up. building and distribution. Dylan Williams Julia Bacha, Co-Director of My Neighbourhood Producer of The Borneo Case

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You birthed an extraordinary With a defined campaign happening; a community and but large hurdles we need the collective of ideas, passions kind of speedy, fine-tuned and people that in turn will give connecting that only Good Pitch birth to more the same, on and can bring. Hearing individuals on until we all live a little better say “I can help you with that and feel a little more. problem” makes you feel that Ian Kibbe anything is, in fact, possible! Producer of Raising Bertie Joanna Natasegara Producer & Impact Producer of Virunga

It truly was an experience; an inspiriting one and a learning experience. I had GOOD PITCH WAS THE BEST heard Good Pitch was ‘super powerful’, prestigious etc, PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE but nothing prepared me for the ‘Good-Ness’ that resonates I HAVE EVER HAD IN TERMS in this pitch. Thank you for this. OF FUNDRAISING AND Soniya Kirpalani We couldn’t have made Project Wild Thing Director of 17 Not Required Indians ELEVATING AWARENESS OF without the valuable relationships we formed at Good Pitch. Good Pitch connected us with some amazing partners The entire Good Pitch MY WORK AS A FILMMAKER. and new friends, as well as generating experience has been amazing interest, excitement and great vibes around the project. The experience gave us the for us and really forced us to IT WAS ALSO EXTREMELY energy and the connections to make an conceptualise (and now award-winning film, and deliver an execute) our outreach plans. SOUL-NOURISHING DUE TO unprecedented impact campaign. Ashley Jones Producer of Project Wild Thing Director of Escape Fire THE SPIRIT OF AUTHENTIC SUPPORT, COLLABORATION AND CAMARADERIE AMONGST STAFF AND FILMMAKERS. Joanna Lipper Director/Producer of The Supreme Price GOOD PITCH GOOD RESULTS 40 Good Pitch Good Pitch Good Pitch 41 Good Results Review Review NEW

$23 MILLION RAISED $1.4 MILLION 81% OF FILMMAKERS F UNDSIN SUPPORT OF FILM R A ISEDTHE MOST RAISED HAVE SECURED FUNDS PRODUCTION AND SO FAR ON ONE THROUGH THE GOOD PITCH IMPACT CAMPAIGNS FILM AT GOOD PITCH PROGRAMME 42 Good Pitch Good Pitch Good Pitch Good Pitch 43 Good Results Review Good Results Review 74% OF FUNDING RAISED AT FLAGSHIP EVENTS HAS SUPPORTED THE COMPLETION OF A FILM PRODUCTION &­— 26% OF FUNDING RAISED AT FLAGSHIP EVENTS HAS CONTRIBUTED TO AN IMPACT CAMPAIGN

CAMPAIGN FUND Who gaveS funding? 69% Foundations 14% Film Funds 9% Broadcasters 5% Individual Donors 1% Brands 44 Good Pitch Good Pitch Good Pitch Good Pitch 45 Good Results Review Good Results Review

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Global Witness IN EIGHT YEARS, OVER 1200 Virunga

Mo Ibrahim Bertha Foundation EXTRAORDINARY STRATEGIC Alzheimer’s Foundation Association NYC PARTNERSHIPS HAVE BEEN Chapter The Fledgling MOMA The Center for Fund NEW Alzheimer’s Creative Ageing BROKERED AT FLAGSHIP Project GOOD PITCH LIVE EVENTS. Sundance Institute The Genius of Marian

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Ping Pong Inspired older people in Good Pitch is where more than 2000 UK care homes to keep active. change begins. It’s where No Fire Zone strategy is conceived, Triggered a UN inquiry into the 2009 Sri Lankan coalitions are forged, deals war crimes. struck and pacts made. Virunga SOCO shareholder, the Right now, there are 85 Church of England, divested their $2.4 million Good Pitch films being used stake, after attempting positive engagement at the the heart of national because of allegations raised in the filmVirunga . or international social Escape Fire justice campaigns. Thousands of medical REAL professionals have used the film in training, including 4,038 nurses, 99 dieticians, My Neighbourhood Project Wild Thing 878 occupational therapists, Screened at the Prompted 8 million THE NEW BLACK 109 health educators and European Parliament members of the Wild 854 physicians. and across the Network to go outdoors HELPED TO Occupied Palestinian and get into nature. Territories. PASS THE PENDING MARRIAGE EQUALITY BILL CHANGE IN ILLINOIS. 50 Good Pitch Good Pitch Good Pitch Good Pitch 51 Good Results Review Good Results Review

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Dear Mandela #DearMandela was THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND, the trending topic in South Africa during the broadcast premiere. DIVESTED THEIR $2.4 MILLION

Crime After Crime The Invisible Raised over $160,000 STAKE, AFTER ATTEMPTING for domestic violence War introduced prevention organisations across the US. POSITIVE ENGAGEMENT a total of 20 The Interrupters Built a grassroots BECAUSE OF ALLEGATIONS pieces of new movement of violence prevention in Chicago REALlegislation to and raised $1 million to RAISED IN THE FILM VIRUNGA address the US’ continue CeaseFire’s work. A Small Act Inspired donations of over military sexual $2 million to high school education programmes CassaultH epidemic.ANG in Kenya. E 52 Good Pitch Good Pitch 53 Review Review

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presented Dreamcatcher at Good Pitch Membership organisation Chicago THE FILM Chicago in 2013 where they secured African Americans in Philanthropy pledged production funding from the Chaz & to connect the film team to their network Brenda is on a mission to disrupt Foundation, New Energy, of philanthropic funders. DREAMCATCHER the cycle of neglect, violence, and the Richard Driehaus Foundation, exploitation endured by girls and women Chicken & Egg Pictures and individual The Fledgling Fund, also present at in inner-city Chicago. On any given day, donors, totalling $21,000, plus additional Good Pitch Chicago, has since come she’s performing interventions with funding for the impact campaign. on as partners on the impact campaign, KIM LONGINOTTO & LISA STEVENS at-risk teenagers, female prisoners, and as did Ian Darling of Impact Partners, prostitutes on street corners. She uses The team used these funds to help Shark Island Productions and Good Pitch2 unconditional love, non-judgmental complete the film, plan the outreach Australia. support, practical help, whatever it takes campaign and also donate funds to the for them to change their own lives. But Dreamcatcher Foundation; a survivor- the most powerful weapon in Brenda’s founded, survivor-driven, and survivor- WHAT HAPPENED NEXT? healing arsenal is the raw honesty she focused agency fighting to end human can offer because she’s been where trafficking in Chicago and its surrounding Dreamcatcher had its world premiere they are. For 25 years, she survived suburbs. The nonprofit organisation at in January as a drug-addicted prostitute, even works to prevent the sexual exploitation 2015 where it won the Directing Award recruiting innocents into the lifestyle of at-risk youth and helps them find for World Cinema Documentary. and abandoning her own children. Using confidence and stability through The film also played at HotDocs, unobtrusive verité camera work that education, empowerment, and active International Film Festival Rotterdam, inhabits Brenda’s miraculous perspective, prevention. Sheffield Doc/Fest, Sydney Film Festival master director Kim Longinotto follows and over fifty international film festivals. intimate stories along Brenda’s path. Also at their table sat the nonprofit Child molestation, physical abuse, organisation The film was released poverty, and silence are among the Chicago Alliance in cinemas in the common denominators of their dire Against Sexual US and UK followed situations. Like a shining star in the Exploitation by a broadcast on darkness, Brenda appears, doing a dance (CAASE) who Showtime (US) and and upending the paradigm: “Hold the envision a BRENDA IS ON BBC4 (UK). The film rest of the world accountable for what’s community free will also be broadcast been done to you... it’s not your fault. from all forms of A MISSION TO by CBC in Canada, DR It’s not your fault.” sexual exploitation, TV in Denmark, SVT including sexual DISRUPT THE CYCLE in Sweden, VG TV assault and the in Norway, VRT GOOD PITCH commercial sex OF NEGLECT, VIOLENCE, in Belgium and trade. CAASE Foxtel in Australia. Multi award-winning filmmaker Kim offered to screen AND EXPLOITATION Longinotto and producer Lisa Stevens the film to their In partnership with vast network of ENDURED BY GIRLS The British Council, judges, policy and with generous makers and AND WOMEN IN support from The SHE USES UNCONDITIONAL change leaders. Fledgling Fund, INNER-CITY CHICAGO. Women Make Movies LOVE, NON-JUDGMENTAL The Chicago will be hosting Metropolitan public screenings SUPPORT, PRACTICAL Battered Women’s of Dreamcatcher in Network offered to cities across the US HELP, WHATEVER IT TAKES use the film in their trainings for victims of throughout the fall of 2015. Audiences will domestic violence. They provide services be invited to join Brenda Myers-Powell Director Kim Longinotto Pitched at dreamcatcherfilm.com FOR THEM TO CHANGE to over 800 people a year, including a 24- from the Dreamcatcher Foundation, and Producers Lisa Stevens & Teddy Leifer Good Pitch Chicago 2013 facebook.com/dreamcatcherdoc hour domestic violence shelter, emergency producer Lisa Stevens, for post-screening Impact Producer British Council USA @DreamcatcherDoc THEIR OWN LIVES. shelter and transitional housing. discussions with local advocates. 56 Case Good Pitch Case Good Pitch 57 Studies Review Studies Review

assistance and support for those with engagement campaign and public THE FILM Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, art project called The Genius of Caring as well as for their family members, (www.geniusofcaring.com), comprising After she is diagnosed at age 61 with early- caregivers and professionals. The Alzheimer’s an innovative online story-sharing THE GENIUS OF MARIAN onset Alzheimer’s, life begins to change Association NYC Chapter helped to co-write initiative and an educational curriculum for Pam White and everyone around her. the film’s discussion guide. geared to engage caregivers, educators, Pam’s husband grapples with his changing medical professionals and students in the role from partner to caregiver. Her adult Nonprofit organisation Arts & Minds is subject of aging and caregiving intensive BANKER WHITE children each find ways to show their love committed to improving quality of life diseases. In autumn 2014 they were also and support while mourning the slow loss for people living with Alzheimer’s disease commissioned by of their mother. And Pam deals with the and other dementias through engagement to produce an Op Doc entitled A Marriage & ANNA FITCH fear that she will be institutionalised for with art. President of the organisation, to Remember. The short film focuses on her disease, as her own mother was before Dr James Noble, worked with the team how Alzheimer’s affected Banker’s she died of Alzheimer’s in 2001. to develop a specialised curriculum parent’s marriage. sensitising neurology students to the The Genius of Marian is a visually rich, needs of Alzheimer’s patients and their They are currently working to cast emotionally complex story that not only families outside the clinical environment. additional portraits for The Genius of chronicles the progress of Pam’s early- Dr Noble also plans to present the film Caring site, to plan community-based, in- onset Alzheimer’s, but also serves as a and curriculum at upcoming major person workshops and to launch a Spanish meditation on what we inherit from the neurology conferences. The team has now language version of the site. The project generations before us and the role of begun discussions with other departments has received support from the National memory in creating legacy. at Columbia University: the Mailman Endowment for the Arts, Family Caregiver School of Public Health, the Aging Center Alliance, private donors and was selected and the Department of Narrative Medicine. to participate in the Sundance Institute GOOD PITCH New Frontier Story Lab. The Center for Creative Aging, a national At Good Pitch New York 2012, Banker and clearinghouse at the nexus of creativity In addition to over 250 community Anna were looking for partners to support and ageing, has included the film and screenings in January it was screened their outreach campaign – the creation its campaign in their Family Caregiver for lawmakers on Capitol Hill. Additionally, of a curriculum for medical professionals, online toolkit. MOMA Alzheimer’s Project, the team worked with the National additional short films and an art show that a special initiative in the Museum’s Alzheimer’s Advisory Council and the focuses on the healing power of creativity. Department of Education from 2007 Gateway Geriatric Education Center at They were also seeking finishing funds for until 2014, showed the film and connected Saint Louis University to have the film the documentary. the team to other NYC contacts. CME accredited in multiple disciplines including physicians, nurses, psychologists, On Good Pitch day, the Sundance At Good Pitch, the team also connected social workers and physical therapists. The Institute announced the acceptance of with advisor David Shenk (author of The Genius of Marian was released digitally in the film onto its prestigious Edit Lab. The Forgetting) and impact strategist Nancy 2015 through Sundance Artist Services. Fledgling Fund made an on-the-spot $10k Mench Turret who provided invaluable It is now available on iTunes and grant – outside their regular granting cycle advice for the development of the and will be on Netflix in early 2016. – and since then have given another two campaign The Genius Of Caring. grants and introduced them to additional “Banker White has lovingly captured funding partners to support the film’s a family portrait tragically framed by campaigning work. The team also received WHAT HAPPENED NEXT? Alzheimer disease. This cinematographic grants from Influence Film Foundation, masterwork inspires its audience, Sundance Institute Documentary Film After the film’s 2013 including physicians, caregivers, and Program and US broadcaster POV, world premiere, it travelled the world and families, to consider what providing care raising a total of $193,000. picked up many awards. really means, from the home to the clinic office and all parts of life in-between— The team developed partnerships with It was broadcast on POV in September the painful and the beautiful.” Director/Producer Banker White Pitched at geniusofmarian.com almost everyone at their table, including 2014, and secured international and James Noble, MD, President of Arts Producer/Co-director Anna Fitch Good Pitch New York 2012 Campaign geniusofcaring.com the Alzheimer’s Association NYC Chapter educational distribution with Ro*co Films. & Minds & Neurologist at Columbia facebook.com/TheGeniusOfMarian who provide free information, confidential The team launched a robust community University Medical Center @GeniusOfMarian Campaign: geniusofcaring.com 58 Case Good Pitch Case Good Pitch 59 Studies Review Studies Review

Pitch marked the beginning of serious and Human Services to produce an THE FILM discussions. unprecedented Federal Interagency Policy Screening and Discussion in The Homestretch follows three homeless The team formed a relationship with Washington DC. This event brought THE HOMESTRETCH teens as they fight to stay in school, CPB, who attended specifically for together, for the first time ever, senior graduate, and build a future. Each of The Homestretch presentation. The officials from the five top government these ambitious teenagers – Roque, Kasey film is now part of the CPB’s American agencies whose work intersects with and Anthony – will surprise, inspire, and Graduate Initiative, which supported the homeless youth for a candid discussion. KIRSTEN KELLY challenge audiences to rethink stereotypes broadcast with paid advertising, and Thanks to the success of that event – and of homelessness as they work to complete educational and outreach support. a second grant from the Fledgling Fund their education while facing the trauma – ten regional screenings and roundtable & ANNE DE MARE of being alone and abandoned at an After Good Pitch, the team forged discussions on the same model are being early age. As their stories unfold, the film an important working partnership with organised across the nation. connects us deeply with larger issues of the Lefkofsky Family Foundation to poverty, race, juvenile justice, immigration, produce an educational module for In November 2015 the film will screen foster care, and LGBTQ rights. Chicago Public Schools Homeless Liaison simultaneously at interagency policy Training. This module is now used in events in Boston, New York, Washington school systems nationwide, and is an DC, Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Kansas GOOD PITCH integral part of PBS Learning Media. City, Denver, San Francisco and Seattle, welcoming 1,000 policy, program and Filmmakers Kirsten and Anne presented advocate participants from across The Homestretch at Good Pitch Chicago in WHAT HAPPENED NEXT? the country. The team continues to 2013 where they secured funding totaling over raise funds to execute this innovative $147,000 from a range of funders including The Homestretch premiered at HotDocs outreach. To amplify the impact, the Chicago Community Trust, Lefkofsky Family and went on to play at 21 film festivals team will use ITVS’s online streaming Foundation, Baskin Family Foundation, Vicki internationally. A theatrical release in platform (OVEE) to connect the and Bruce Heyman Fund, Mullen Family US cities with the highest rates of youth conversations with remote agency Foundation, Chaz & Roger Ebert Foundation, homelessness coincided with National offices and nonprofit grantees. The and Andrew Schwerfeger, who became an Homeless Youth Awareness Month in ultimate goal is to open channels of Executive Producer. These funds were critical November, 2014. communication between previously to the film’s completion and provided vital siloed agencies, and generate support support for the project’s ambitious and The national PBS broadcast of The for homeless youth. multi-layered impact campaign. Additional Homestretch on Independent Lens grants came in over the following year from in spring 2015 reached approximately The Homestretch Impact Campaign the Bertha BRITDOC Connect Fund and 1 million viewers. It was included in ITVS’s is gaining momentum for a second year the Fledgling Fund. acclaimed Community Cinema program of screenings, community events and at 80+ live events. ITVS and The work with school districts during 2015-16. The team had existing relationships with Homestretch team developed a almost all of the organisations at their Discussion Guide and a Youth Call Currently, the team is producing a short pitch table, most notably three of their To Action Guide. follow up film on a Chicago Public High national partners The National Network School that is responding to the crisis of for Youth, The National Association for the Since Good Pitch, strategic impact homeless youth with an innovative, pilot Education of Homeless Children and Youth funding has helped to support 500+ program that will house under-housed and the True Colors Fund. Being together targeted live events featuring the film, students at the school. at Good Pitch, and having them witness raising approximately $200,000 for US the tremendous response to the film schools and community organisations. In 2015-16, the film will screen as part of significantly deepened these relationships The Homestretch continues to work the White House Initiative for Excellence and they remain an instrumental part closely with public schools, local in Education for African Americans of the national impact campaign. government, universities, and service Discussion Series in October. It’s also After discussions following Good Pitch, providers around the country. been invited to be part of the US State Director/Producer Pitched at homestretchdoc.com ITVS made an offer for funding and Department’s American Film Showcase Kirsten Kelly & Anne de Mare Good Pitch Chicago 2013 facebook.com/HomestretchDoc broadcast on Independent Lens. Though In spring 2015, The Campaign partnered and will be working with embassies Impact Producer Erin Sorensen @HomestretchDoc the film was already on ITVS’s radar, Good with the US Department of Health across the world. 60 Case Good Pitch Case Good Pitch 61 Studies Review Studies Review

Through Good Pitch, the team also the film was Highly Commended in Best THE FILM connected to Kat Mansoor who came Feature Documentary at the International on board as co-producer of the film and Film Competition. Ida is a young Norwegian woman, secured support from Wellcome Trust, IDA’S DIARY struggling with a very turbulent emotional which is a global charitable foundation The team is currently preparing for the life caused by an emotionally unstable supporting research for health. Through launch of their strategic impact campaign personality disorder (borderline / BPD). Kat the filmmakers connected with Jessica in different countries, which will be launched For the last eight years, Ida has kept a Edwards who joined the team as the together with the film’s broadcast in the AUGUST BAUGSTØ HANSSEN video diary in order to ease her mind and Impact Producer for the UK campaign. Nordic countries on World Mental Health structure her thoughts. In her diary we Jessica secured funding from the Bertha Day on October 10th 2015. Two highlights get a unique insight into a world of fear BRITDOC Connect Fund. Together, include a screening in London & CARSTEN AANONSEN and anxiety, but also precious moments Kat and Jessica raised a total of nearly for policymakers, influencers and mental of everyday victories and self-discovery. $68,000 to help complete the film and health professionals, hosted by Emergence, Most importantly we get to witness her launch its impact campaign in the UK. as well as a screening with HORATIO at powerful struggle towards self-acceptance Meanwhile, Fritt Ord Foundation gave the European Association for Psychiatric and a genuine appreciation of life. another grant to the filmmakers for its Nurses Annual Congress in Lisbon. impact campaign in Norway. Ida’s Diary is a film about hope, about In addition, as a result of the Bertha finding your own identity and daring Good Pitch helped the film project grow BRITDOC Connect Fund grant, to live. and gain international interest. The team Emergence – a leading mental health believes that Good organisation with Pitch enabled them a focus on borderline GOOD PITCH to deliver a strong personality disorder – pitch at the IDFA has been engaged to At Good Pitch Europe 2013 in London, Forum Round Table THE IMPACT CAMPAIGN deliver an innovative filmmakers August and Carsten and Pitch in November training programme Impact Producer Karianne were looking 2013, which led to AIMS TO RAISE MUCH for mental health for funding for both the film’s production sales to broadcasters professionals around and the impact campaign, as well as NRK (Norway), DR NEEDED AWARENESS OF the film. Emergence strong campaign partners who could (Denmark), YLE has an extensive help them reach targeted audiences. (Finland) and SVT PERSONALITY DISORDER track record of (Sweden) whilst also designing and On the day, the team met with a range sparking serious AND MENTAL HEALTH. delivering context- of potential partners including the conversations with the specific training European Federation of Nurses BBC (UK) and other for mental health Association, World Association of Girl interested parties. practitioners and Scouts, Mindfull, MTV Voices, Dazed & Sales to the four Nordic broadcasters led service users affected by BPD and is the Confused and FilmClub UK. to support from the Nordic Film & TV main delivery partner of the Department Fund. Pitching at the the IDFA Forum also of Health’s education programme Mental Health Europe, an umbrella led to the international premiere at IDFA in supporting individuals with personality organisation representing 88 members 2014, securing sales agent First Hand Films disorder, which has been delivered to organisations and European institutions and Belgium broadcaster VRT. approximately 70,000 individuals in active in the field of mental health and the UK since 2008. well-being, sat at the Good Pitch table and together they are now looking into WHAT HAPPENED NEXT? The Ida’s Diary impact campaign the possibility of a screening at the aims to raise much needed awareness European Parliament. Ida’s Diary had its world premiere at the of personality disorder and mental health, International Documentary Film Festival more generally, challenging the stigma Also at their table were the Wellcome in Amsterdam (IDFA) in November 2014 with which they are associated, targeting Trust and long-time supporter of the followed by screenings at more than a a range of audiences. They specifically Director August Baugstø Hanssen Pitched at idasdiaryfilm.com film, Fritt Ord Foundation. After the dozen festivals worldwide, including the look to share the film with mental health Producer Carsten Aanonsen Good Pitch Europe 2013 facebook.com/IdasDagbok pitch, both foundations pledged financial Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film professionals, service users and the Impact Producer Karianne Berge @IdasDagbokFilm support for the completion of the film. Festival, the biggest of its kind, where general public. (Norway) & Jessica Edwards (UK) 62 Case Good Pitch Case Good Pitch 63 Studies Review Studies Review

and been screened for audiences at over to support active engagement of THE FILM 100 colleges, universities, community congregational audiences and institutions. groups and corporations. The New Black captures the complex Through the formation of national THE NEW BLACK intersection between faith, racial justice It has been previewed, reviewed, discussed partnerships and with support of and LGBT rights. With a focus on the and blogged about in 350 broadcast, the advisory group, The New Black campaigns for and against Maryland’s online and print publications including was screened within several major 2012 Question 6 ballot initiative, the film The Washington Post, The Village Voice, congregations and with targeted YORUBA RICHEN offers perspectives from both sides of the Huffington Post, MSNBC, and NPR. faith-led audiences. debate, while interweaving perspectives Additionally, Yoruba Richen’s TED talk, of everyday people grappling with their ‘What the gay rights movement learned The goal of the screenings was to make & YVONNE WELBON stance on the issues. Bolstered by an from the Civil Rights Movement’ has been use of The New Black as an innovative overarching analysis of the historic role viewed by more than 619,000 people. practical tool to support congregations of the church as both a support system and faith-oriented spaces in responding for black people, families and communities Leading up to the film’s 2014 PBS to the religious, social, and cultural shifts as well as a bastion of homophobic broadcast, The New Black screened in required for the integration of same-sex rhetoric, the film prompts viewers to more than 85 cities around the country marriage legislation. confront the unique challenges facing through ITVS’s Community Cinema public black LGBT people in the United States. education and civic engagement initiative. Empowering Equality on Historically Moreover, it leaves us with a new These free, community-based screenings Black College and University Campuses understanding of inclusive democracy. were hosted in collaboration with the film’s Though foundational to the Civil Rights community partners, including National Movement, HBCUs have been notoriously Black Programming Consortium, Gay- conservative when it comes to LGBT GOOD PITCH Straight Alliance, local PBS broadcasters, issues. The New Black, in partnership and Spectrum Queer Media. with the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), Filmmakers Yoruba and Yvonne awarded $6,000 in grants to HBCUs to presented The New Black at Good Pitch The targeted engagement for 2014-15 use The New Black as a tool to advance New York 2012, seeking production has focused on two on-campus LGBT funding and partnerships to support primary areas the inclusion through the film’s message. Empowering Equality expanded and Faith-Initiative and the improved policy In addition to a $150,000 production Empowering Equality THE NEW BLACK development, grant, Ford Foundation’s JustFilms on Historically campus , Initiative also funded two brain trusts Black Colleges and and education. with key stakeholders in New York and Universities (HBCU) CAPTURES THE COMPLEX Washington DC in partnership with Active program. Seven schools in five Voice, who helped to develop the outreach INTERSECTION BETWEEN southern states were and engagement campaign. The Ford Empowering Equality selected to receive the Foundation’s Gender Rights and Equality Faith-Initiative first round of funding initiative awarded $50,000 to support During 2014, a series FAITH, RACIAL JUSTICE for events during fall outreach and engagement. of conversations 2014 and spring 2015. were held with a AND LGBT RIGHTS. Also in the room was the Philadelphia cross-sector of Two years after Foundation, who later gave $15,000 clergy, lay ministers, film’s premiere and towards the campaign, and the Fledgling same gender loving after the legalisation Fund, who gave a $20,000 grant. ministry (SGL) leadership, theologians, of gay marriage nationally, The New scholars, and subject matter experts Black continues to be used in corporate, from around the country. As a result of community-based organisations, WHAT HAPPENED NEXT? these initial conversations, an advisory college and universities, human rights group, including major partnerships with organisations, policy, and advocacy Director Yoruba Richen Pitched at newblackfilm.com Since the June 2013 premiere of The New Many Voices and The Center on African settings as a catalyst for discussion Producer Yvonne Welbon Good Pitch New York in 2012 facebook.com/NewBlackFIlm Black at the Los Angeles Film Festival it American Religion, Sexual Politics and expanding diversity and inclusion social @NewBlackFilm has been invited to nearly 70 film festivals Social Justice (CARSS), was formed change efforts. 64 Case Good Pitch Case Good Pitch 65 Studies Review Studies Review

Institute is committed to breaking the a first-of-its kind endeavour in the social THE FILM cycle of violence in homes, schools, and impact space and one that all filmmakers communities through research, national can use to measure their impact. Private Violence is a feature-length multi-platform campaigns, and through PRIVATE VIOLENCE documentary film and audience the power of film. engagement campaign that explores WHAT HAPPENED NEXT? a simple, but deeply disturbing fact of Waitt has been a key partner in the social American life: the most dangerous place media strategy, amplifying their voice and Private Violence had its world premiere CYNTHIA HILL for a woman in America is her own home. playing an active role in the conversation at Sundance International Film Festival to #EndPrivateViolence. They have in 2014. It had a robust festival run and Every day in the US, at least four women supported the production, funding, and garnered many awards including the & KIT GRUELLE are murdered by abusive (and often, ex) coordination of three documentary shorts Candescent Award and the True/False partners. The knee-jerk response is to aimed at ‘first responder’ communities. ‘True Life’ Award. The film premiered to ask: “why doesn’t she just leave?” Private These shorts are targeted toward broad acclaim on HBO in October 2014 Violence shatters the brutality of this logic. bringing more men into the movement, during Domestic Violence Awareness sensitising lawyers to the issues around Month. In the lead up to the film’s Through the eyes of two survivors – domestic violence (to be distributed to broadcast premiere and following, Private Deanna Walters, a mother who seeks the 400K+ members of the American Violence screened in over 110 cities across justice for the crimes committed against Bar Association), and educating the wider the US and around the world. It has been her at the hands of her estranged public about the patriarchal roots behind nominated for an Emmy Award in the husband, and Kit Gruelle, an advocate the seemingly-benign question: “why Outstanding Informational Programming who seeks justice for all women – we bear doesn’t she just leave?” Long-Form category (awards to be witness to the complicated and complex announced in September 2015). realities of intimate partner violence. Chicken & Egg Pictures, a film fund supporting women nonfiction filmmakers The team is currently working on Their experiences challenge entrenched to catalyse social change, also sat at visualising their impact story as part of and misleading assumptions, providing the Good Pitch table. They joined the their involvement in the first ever Fledgling a lens into a world that is largely invisible; team as executive producers of Private Fund Engagement Lab. Their hope is a world we have locked behind closed Violence and provided key funding for that this new, visually-driven way of doors with our silence, our laws, and our our social impact campaign. Their biggest presenting a film’s social impact will aid lack of understanding. non-monetary filmmakers and the contribution was in newly burgeoning As Deanna transforms from victim to the development of field of social impact survivor, Private Violence begins to shape their tear sheet survey, “WHY DOES HE ABUSE?” in the same way powerful, new questions that hold the in collaboration with that their tear sheet potential to change our society: “Why another key partner, “WHY DO WE TURN AWAY?” has. This visual story does he abuse?” “Why do we turn away?” the Fledgling Fund. contextualises their “How do we begin to build a future This survey was “HOW DO WE BEGIN TO impact within the without domestic violence?” created to measure larger culture and immediate audience BUILD A FUTURE WITHOUT social movements. response to the film. It maps how they GOOD PITCH DOMESTIC VIOLENCE?” have leveraged our The survey helped role in the public eye Cynthia and Kit presented Private Violence the team to determine important data to bring domestic violence-related issues at Good Pitch Chicago in 2013 where they about their audience and their impact. to the forefront, galvanized states to pass secured nearly $45,000 in production For example, much of the audience (75%) stronger DV legislation, helped to both funds from a range of individual donors asked the question “why didn’t she just amplify the voices and efforts of both as well as The Waitt Institute for Violence leave” in domestic violence situations. 94% established and still nascent movements, Prevention and Chicken & Egg Pictures. of the audiences surveyed understood and changed the public conversation more about DV after watching the film. around domestic violence. Through their Director Cynthia Hill Pitched at privateviolence.com The Waitt Institute sat at the Good While similar tear surveys have been used partnerships, they have supported a Social Impact Campaign Good Pitch Chicago 2013 facebook.com/privateviolence Pitch table and became one of Private by film festivals to determine award- community of advocates, activists, and Consultant Kit Gruelle twitter.com/PrivateViolence Violence’s main campaign partners. The winners, their measurement tool was survivors working to #EndPrivateViolence. @privateviolence 66 Case Good Pitch Case Good Pitch 67 Studies Review Studies Review

host a private influencer screening of the • Gain global prominence for and public THE FILM film with Chelsea Clinton in July 2014. awareness of the threats facing Virunga. • Protect Virunga from illegal oil exploration A powerful combination of investigative Also on their Good Pitch New York table by British oil company, SOCO International VIRUNGA journalism and environmental documentary, was the Fledgling Fund, who offered and from further corporate wrongdoing. Virunga is the incredible true story of a $30,000 towards the campaign. Fledgling • Promote the rule of law and set a group of brave people risking their lives to connected the team to a small private precedent against extraction in World build a better future in a part of Africa the foundation, the Neda Nobari Foundation, Heritage Sites. ORLANDO VON EINSIEDEL world’s forgotten and a gripping exposé who soon after came on board as a • Work with local partners in support of the of the realities of life in the Congo. campaign supporter. The filmmakers also local communities’ vision for sustainable spoke with advocacy organisation Friends development through clean energy & JOANNA NATASEGARA In the forested depths of eastern Congo of the Congo and Africa Faith and Justice alternatives, including the park’s own lies Virunga National Park, one of the most Network to arrange diaspora outreach initiative, the Virunga Alliance. bio-diverse places on earth and home with the film and its campaign. to the planet’s last remaining mountain So far, some achievement highlights gorillas. In this wild, but enchanted of the impact campaign include: environment, a small and embattled team WHAT HAPPENED NEXT? • Global press coverage - over 600 of park rangers protect this UNESCO media articles including from high- world heritage site from armed militia, Virunga has been nominated for over 60 profile supporters, including Archbishop poachers and the dark forces struggling international awards and is a 2015 Academy Desmond Tutu, Sir Richard Branson to control Congo’s rich natural resources. Award® nominee for Best Documentary, and Sir David Attenborough. BAFTA nominee for Best Documentary, • Governmental, non-governmental and When the newly formed M23 rebel group a Director’s Guild and Producer’s Guild of NGO action - the film has been used by declares war, a new conflict threatens America Award nominee and winner of institutions (foreign ministries, UNESCO, the lives and stability of everyone and a Peabody, TV Academy Honor® and the European Parliament, Capitol Hill, DFID everything they’ve worked so hard to Emmy® for Best Cinematography. the 2015 International Anti-Corruption protect, with the filmmakers and the film’s Conference) to open up debate around participants caught in the crossfire. Netflix quickly acquired the film for its extraction in protected areas, resource Originals slate after Virunga’s world premiere issues and development, security and at Tribeca Film Festival 2014, acting as post conflict rule of law. GOOD PITCH conduit to the film’s partnership with • Positive Shareholder Engagement - Executive Producer, Leonardo DiCaprio, on the day of Soco’s AGM in June At Good Pitch Europe 2013, Orlando was and distributing the film to 63 million people 2015, Global Witness released evidence looking for finishing funds and outreach in over 50 countries. The film has gone on expanding upon allegations made in support. He came away having met impact to screen at over 80 festivals worldwide and Virunga. This coincided with loud calls producer, Joanna, and together they has broadcast in all 49 countries across for the oil company to meaningfully sought additional financing for the film sub-Saharan Africa with Afridocs. address the mounting allegations and and ambitious impact campaign. make an unconditional commitment Simultaneous to the premiere, the team to leave the park. The team were able to fortify new and launched an impact campaign with • In July 2015 The Church of England existing relationships with 11th Hour Project, bold objectives: primarily to safeguard announced its decision to divest a £1.6 the Zoological Society of London and The Virunga from ongoing pernicious threats, million stake in the oil and gas company Pulitzer Foundation, Bertha Foundation, by increasing the park’s profile amongst after finding Soco’s attempts to investigate Global Witness and IUCN NL, as well as key audiences. Outreach screenings their operations to be “unsatisfactory”. The Funding Network – a UK-based ‘open have rolled out across the globe, from • Although Soco is not currently operating giving circle’. Also at their table at Good parliaments to special screenings hosted in Virunga National Park, they are yet to Pitch Europe was Hadeel Ibrahim from the by Leonardo DiCaprio and President Bill make an absolute commitment to the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, promoting African Clinton as well as at key international DRC government never to explore for oil development with a special focus on good forums ensuring those working at the within its current borders, or to commit to governance in sub-Saharan Africa. geopolitical level are engaged with the a safe exit plan that will safeguard the park Director Orlando von Einsiedel Pitched at virungamovie.com issue. A local campaign was devised and for future generations. The team continue Producer / Impact Producer Good Pitch Europe 2013 & Good Pitch facebook.com/VirungaMovie They connected again at Good Pitch New run in DRC by local partners and civil to ask #TeamVirunga to #TakeAction to Joanna Natasegara New York 2014 @VirungaMovie York 2014, where Hadeel pledged further society groups. Since the campaign launch, support the work of the rangers and local #TeamVirunga support for the team and went on to co- the team have collaborated to: communities and their vision for the park. Case Good Pitch 69 Studies Review

17 families and human rights activists with them in prison. She also assisted THE FILM within UAE/India, creating pressure the defense teams in getting the on both governments to open the employment documents which proved In April 2010, 17 Indians were sentenced appeal process, and generating nearly that at least some of the men were 17 NOT REQUIRED INDIANS to death for the murder of one man in $600,000 in media mileage and financial innocent. Soniya gained access to labor the UAE. But for the efforts of some support for the families. camps for the defense team where they family members pressurising both the were able to speak with eyewitnesses Indian and the UAE governments for At Good Pitch2 India 2014 Soniya was and conduct due diligence on the case. SONIYA KIRPALANI a fair trial, the men would have ended seeking regional partners. Amnesty their lives as statistics. International (AI) India offered After the trial, Soniya continued to their expertise and access to their support the men, helping them retrieve In sharing time with the families struggling membership so the film could be used their passports and identification papers, for justice, director Soniya Kirpalani to start a discussion around governance and she also supported their learning reveals the tragic plight of Indian migrants with local ministers and in the Indian through a program teaching basic overseas. Following the brothers of one parliament. AI also hosted grassroots computer and marketing skills. of the accused, as they collect proof of screenings across the most marginalised his innocence, we are lead into an unseen areas across India, with the highest rates Working towards their larger goal of world of migrant abuse. Through the of migration, to raise awareness about improving the conditions for all Indian trial process, we see how politics and illegal employment. migrants, the team invited Human Rights corruption obstruct the possibility of India to Dubai. In collaboration, they a fair trial for Indian migrant workers. Through Good Pitch Soniya met Trust Law, discovered that more than 1,730 Indians Thomson Reuters Foundation’s global were imprisoned in the UAE, of which As well as securing justice for the 17 pro bono service connecting NGOs and almost 200 were on death row. men, the team’s goal is to affect long- social enterprises with law firms around term change in the treatment of Indian the world. This partnership has opened the Soniya continues to work with Amnesty migrant workers as a whole, and to shift discussion on governance, resources and International to secure the lives of Indians the mindset of the Indian community large-scale change in India, and beyond. overseas. She supported AI in their drive in the UAE specifically. Soniya is now collaborating with Trust Law to get funding in the UAE from high net to translate employment contracts so they worth individuals. Now they are organising can be put online for prospective migrants. community screenings in highly sensitive GOOD PITCH areas of the UAE and she has helped them On Good Pitch2 day, $2,500 was raised find a regional representative to lead this Soniya presented her project at two to start a helpline for Non Resident work on the ground. Good Pitch events. After her New York Indians in trouble abroad. With the 2011 pitch, the Bertha Foundation gave change in government, Soniya worked Press junkets raised awareness in her a production grant and a further with Amnesty International, campaigning the UAE-based Indian community; completion grant through the Bertha influencers and media, raising the topic there have been several new initiatives BRITDOC Journalism Fund, totaling of migrant safety in the Indian Parliament launched by the youth in the community nearly $75,000. through supporters. This has resulted to create education, opportunities in new changes in Migrant Policy and and give hope to the UAE-based At her New York table were Humanity Protection announced by President Modi. migrant workers. United, Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting, Chicken & Egg Pictures, Amnesty Soniya feels she is close to achieving International, broadcasters ITVS and WHAT HAPPENED NEXT? most of the goals that she set for herself ArteEast, WITNESS, Cinereach and at Good Pitch. What proved to be a Breakthrough TV, all of whom Soniya built Through the release of a series of clips blessing was the change in ministry. strong partnerships with. Video Volunteers online after Good Pitch New York, Soniya After Prime Minister Modi took to power, spoke from the floor and pledged support secured media partnerships to ensure Soniya continued to stir regional/global in getting the film to the villages where the case maintained maximum media pressure with her regular community the migrants live in India. attention with regional communities. and influencer screenings supported by Director Soniya Kirpalani Pitched at notrequiredindians.com AI. This resulted in Modi announcing the Good Pitch New York 2011 facebook.com/NotRequiredIndians Upon returning from Good Pitch NY, Soniya secured permissions for the new fund for legal support of migrant & Good Pitch2 India 2014 Soniya hosted media junkets with the brothers of the 17 accused to meet labourers in prison. 70 Brought Good Pitch Brought Good Pitch 71 to you by Review to you by Review

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In supporting such work, the DFP encourages the diverse exchange of ideas by artists as a “There’s bringing strategic facilitating the strategic distribution critical pathway to developing an open society. SUNDANCE DOCUMENTARY of grantee projects where needed, Recent films supported by the DFP include support to films for and supporting the social and creative CITIZENFOUR, Rich Hill, The Hunting Ground change...and then there’s FILM PROGRAM impact of this work upon release. and The Look of Silence. Good Pitch - a uniquely The Sundance Documentary In summary, the year-round support With almost 25 years experience in the field, effective, and uniquely Film Program supports nonfiction of filmmakers through the granting Jackson is an award-winning commissioning affecting experience which filmmakers worldwide in fund, the creative labs, a fellows editor, director, and producer of nonfiction the production of cinematic program and strategic advice from work. Prior to joining Sundance she most turns out to be way more documentaries on contemporary development to distribution amounts recently served as Head of Arts and than the sum of its already themes. Established in 2002 with to a commitment to documentary as Performance at Channel 4 Television in London, founding support from Open Society an increasingly important global art where she supported and championed the remarkable parts. Fuelled Foundations, the Program is a vibrant form and a critical cultural practice independent and alternative voice and sought by a generosity of spirit, global resource for independent in the 21st century. to find fresh and innovative ways of storytelling. nonfiction storytelling. She also executive produced a number of passion and community, for projects for Film 4 including Mark Cousins’ those of us invested in films Led by Tabitha Jackson, the cinematic odyssey The Story of Film, Clio Documentary Film Program believes Barnard’s hybrid The Arbor, Sophie Fiennes’ really making a difference that art changes the way we reach essay The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology, Bart Good Pitch has become an people. We focus on those values Layton’s thriller The Imposter, and Iain Forsyth unmissable event in the year of Art, Reach and Change through and Jane Pollard’s Sundance-winning Nick Cave encouraging excellence biography 20,000 Days on Earth. and Sundance Institute is and experimentation in form; proud to be a partner.” championing under-represented voices; Tabitha Jackson, Director, Sundance Documentary Film Program 76 Alumni Good Pitch Alumni Good Pitch 77 Review Review

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