Package to Pitch

for Series creators and creative teams

who are ready to go

A Masterclass in Packaging and Pitching TV Series

for emerging Producers and Writers.

Are you a screen creative or creative team from a First Nations or Diverse Cultural background with a strong concept for a TV series and a completed pilot script ready to pitch?

Do you want to know how to deliver a pitch that will get traction?

With the generous support of Screenrights, Cinespace will be delivering a program targeted at empowering and connecting budding TV creators from our communities.

Delivered as an online course by a suite of industry experts, the program will build each participant’s capacity to read the market and deliver a killer pitch.

What skills will you learn?

A checklist and explanation of the necessary agreements and pitch materials
What elements packaged together make up the perfect project
How to pitch effectively to producers, production companies, networks and agencies
An insight into how producers and market buyers think when looking at projects

What's the commitment?

Participants will need to be available to attend all webinars live on Zoom. Sessions will be held on consecutive Saturdays from 13th of February to the 27th of March between 10am and 2pm.

Who are you and how to apply?

Applications are open Australia-wide to producers and writers who identify as First Nations or Culturally and Linguistically Diverse who are developing a web or TV series.

With only 14 places available in this program, competition will be tight. You or your team must have one or more project/s on your slate that are "near market-ready" - meaning you have written a pilot episode, thought about the audience, market and have undertaken prior development work (including mapping out the first season of your show).

Whilst places in the program are restricted to Australian Citizens and Residents, we welcome applicants who are collaborating with people overseas.

Cinespace recognises intersectionality and we encourage applications from people in our targeted communities who may also be living with a disability. Participants will be selected by a culturally diverse panel.

APPLICATIONS HAVE NOW CLOSED AND OUR SELECTED CREATIVES HAVE BEEN ANNOUNCED.

Will I get to pitch my project/s?

Project information submitted during the application process is only intended to help our assessment panel determine readiness levels for this program. Please be aware that the focus of this program is about educating and building capacity of participants to bring projects to market,. Actual pitch opportunities will be limited or more exercise-based and at the discretion of the speakers.

Information Session (completed event)

If you have any additional questions, Creatives of Colour and Cinespace Inc are hosting an information session on the 11th of November 2020. Producer and program facilitator John Kassab will speak about the program and follow with a QnA. You can book tickets to attend here.

What if you're not quite ready to pitch to industry yet?

Screenrights Cultural Fund and Cinespace are all about accessibility and we want to make sure everyone can benefit from this rare opportunity.

A free educational online toolkit outlining the key learning from the webinar series (including a template graphical pitch deck) will be produced and distributed to all who register for new Cinespace's mailing list.

* More speakers to be announced shortly. Confirmed speakers subject to change.

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SPEAKERS:

*scroll and click on pictures to find out more

John Harvey

Founder | Brown Cabs

John Harvey is a Torres Strait Islander producer, director and writer in screen and stage.

On screen, he produced SPEAR directed by Stephen Page premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival & Adelaide Film Festival, following his collaboration with Stephen Page on SAND, a chapter of the feature film THE TURNING. John is a producer on THE WARRIORS series for ABC TV. He’s worked with a number of emerging Indigenous filmmakers producing 6 short dramas through Screen Australia’s Indigenous Short Drama Initiative.

He has written and directed two short narrative films: WATER (MIFF, Adelaide Film Festival, FlickerFest, ImagineNative (Toronto) and recently completed OUT OF RANGE. He is the director and a co-producer for new web series KUTHCA’S CARPOOL KOOIROKE. He has directed 2 half hour documentaries for ABC and several short documentaries for NITV.

He was awarded the Malcolm Robertson Foundation Writer’s Residency at Footscray Community Arts Centre and will present the new work MY HEART IS A WASTELAND at Malthouse Theatre in 2017. He directed A LITTLE PIECE OF HEAVEN (Orana Arts) at the 2019 Yirramboi Arts Festival (Melbourne). John co-wrote 2020 Sydney Festival hit BLACK TIES with the work selling out in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Auckland and is currently writing THE RETURN for Malthouse Theatre.

John is a graduate of Producing and Screen Writing from AFTRS and was the recipient of the AFTRS AV Myer Award for Exceptional Indigenous Talent. In 2011 he received a Screen Australia Indigenous Producer Internship.

Donna Chang

Development Executive | SBS

Donna joined the Scripted Development team at SBS this year. She was formally Head of Development at Lingo Pictures, working there since 2018 across a range of projects including The Secrets She Keeps. Prior to that, she was a Development Executive at Screen Australia, and has been a Story Development External Assessor for Screen Australia since 2015. She spent several years working in the UK after being selected as one of three emerging Australian producers to win a six-month international placement with Ridley Scott’s production company, Scott Free, in London, where she continued to work for several more years as a Production Executive before returning to Australia.

Our Principal Partner is Screenrights Cultural Fund.

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