EVENT: ‘Making Pitch Decks That Hook’ by Film Fatales and NYWIFT
Join Film Fatales for an online workshop about Making Pitch Decks That Hook with Film Fatales member Jenny Deller (writer-director of Future Weather and producer of Claire in Motion).
Date: Friday, February 3, 2023
Time: 5 PM ET / 2 PM PT
Platform: Zoom
Cost to attend: $5 for NYWIFT (reg. $10) with code NYWIFTguest
In this workshop filmmaker and designer Jenny Deller will walk you through five simple steps to help you pre-visualize and pitch your film, music video or TV series. Come learn the latest ideas that are helping showrunners, directors and producers advance their projects and walk away with some basic concepts, design tips and resources to get your pitches off to a great start this spring.
Jenny’s decks have assisted award-winning film, television and commercial creators land work for Warner Brothers, HBOMax, Showtime, AppleTV+, TNT and USA Networks; as well as national brands like Toyota, Cox, Amazon and Home Depot.
With support from event partners The Big Apple Film Festival, New York Women in Film & Television, PANO, Seed&Spark, and NewFilmmakers Los Angeles.
Panelist:
Jenny Deller is a filmmaker and designer who loves helping fellow creators take the first step in launching their visions. Crafted to immerse viewers in story and tone, her pitch decks have assisted award-winning film, television and commercial creators land work for Warner Brothers, HBOMax, Showtime, AppleTV+, TNT and USA Networks; as well as national brands like Toyota, Cox, Amazon and Home Depot.
Her debut feature as writer-director, FUTURE WEATHER, stars Amy Madigan, Lili Taylor, Marin Ireland and Perla Haney-Jardine. It premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and was distributed worldwide. While in development, FUTURE WEATHER received the Showtime Tony Cox Award for Screenwriting and three grants from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for its unique exploration of climate change. Most recently, she produced the independent thriller, CLAIRE IN MOTION (SXSW) starring Betsy Brandt and co- directed by Annie Howell and Lisa Robinson. Her work has been supported by Film Independent, The Gotham, Netflix, Women in Film and The Wexner Center. Fun fact: she once played a Russian moll on an episode of LAW & ORDER.