Master Class: How to Craft a Successful Film or TV Pitch with Jose Acevedo (EVERYTHING'S TRASH) and Giulia Caruso (COLUMBUS)
About this Master Class
Master Classes are in-depth, interactive learning experiences focused on craft and career building and led by renowned industry experts. Topics include fiction and documentary filmmaking, TV writing and production, and navigating and succeeding in the entertainment industry.
Pitching is the essential process where screenwriters, directors, and producers communicate an idea or a project to the hands that can make it happen. Just like any other industry skill, it is a craft that requires research, practice, and time. In this session, you will learn what industry pros in the film and TV fields expect to see and hear in a pitch. During the event, Jose Acevedo, head of development of Phoebe Robinson's company Tiny Reparations, and established producer Giulia Caruso (COLUMBUS) detail how someone who is trying to sell a script or series should prepare as well as pitfalls to avoid for a pitch meeting.
Topics presented will include:
- How to structure your pitch presentation
- Which elements to include in your pitch
- The best and worst times of the development cycle for pitching
- Preparing yourself up for success before, during, and after a pitch meeting
Resources:
Download the list of RESOURCES from Jose Acevedo, Giulia Caruso and Sundance Collab
Master ClassTeam
Giulia Caruso
Panelist
Giulia Caruso is an award-winning independent producer and founding member of Nonetheless Productions. With partner Ki Jin Kim, she was nominated for the 2018 Piaget Producers Award. Giulia won an Independent Spirit Award for Andrew Ahn’s debut feature SPA NIGHT and an Emmy for KCET’s docuseries LOSTLA. She produced Kogonada’s critically acclaimed Sundance debut COLUMBUS (starring John Cho) and Araceli Lemos’ debut feature HOLY EMY (Greece/ France/ USA), which premiered at Locarno 2021 and Giulia co-wrote. Under the Nonetheless banner, Giulia produced award-winning short films and content for clients such as Armani, Focus Features, MTV, Intel, GoPro. Giulia holds an MFA in Film Directing from CalArts, where she currently teaches.
Jose Acevedo
Panelist
As Tiny Reparation's head of development, Jose has sold shows in both broadcast and cable across multiple genres and formats. This spring he will serve as Co-EP on EVERYTHING"S TRASH for Freeform, starring Phoebe Robinson. Before Tiny Reparations, Jose was a Director of Development & Original Programming at Comedy Central where he developed ALTERNATINO with Arturo Castro, GOATFACE: A COMEDY SPECIAL with Hasan Minhaj’s sketch team Goatface and THE FALL OF DONALD TRUMP: A PRESIDENT SHOW DOCUMENTARY. In past lives he worked at NBC as a Page and OWN as a PA on Oprah's Next Chapter. He lives in Brooklyn.