Life's A Pitch and Then You Cry!
Screen Training Ireland, in association with Film Mayo, are seeking participants for a one day workshop to explore effective and persuasive ways to present and pitch film projects.
Writer/Director David Keating will give a detailed, interactive workshop on pitching, exploring questions such as:
- What are effective ways to talk about the films we passionately want to make?
- What kind of language can we use?
- What are the most important elements to a strong pitch?
- How long should it be?
- How can we do justice to our projects in X minutes?
- How does pitching get to be fun? (it needs to be).
Application Procedure:
Please apply online at www.screentrainingireland.ie. Please note the deadline for applications is Thursday the 22nd of October 2015. For further details, contact Helen McMahon in Screen Training Ireland at helen.mcmahon@screentrainingireland.ie or Orlagh Heverin, Film Mayo part of Mayo County Council’s Arts Office filmmayo@mayococo.ie
Participant Profile:
This course is aimed at writers, directors and producers who wish to examine and enhance their pitching skills.
Tutor: David Keating, Director and Screenwriter
Course Date: Thursday, October 29th, 2015
Course Duration: 1 Day
Venue: Castlebar, tbc
Location: Mayo
Cost: €20
David Keating, Director and Screenwriter
Director and screenwriter, David’s writing includes work for Columbia/Sony Pictures and Jim Sheridan’s script for INTO THE WEST.
David has directed three features films, THE LAST OF THE HIGH KINGS, (Miramax / IFB) with Jared Leto, Gabriel Byrne and Christina Ricci. WAKE WOOD (Hammer / IFB) with Aidan Gillen, Timothy Spall and Eva Birthistle. And this year’s CHERRY TREE (MPI / IFB) — with Naomi Battrick, Anna Walton and Sam Hazeldene. CHERRY TREE was selected to open Film4 Frightfest 2015 in London’s Leicester Square, it will have its US premiere at Lincoln Plaza in NYC in November 2015.
As a trainer and project mentor David has worked with Oxford University’s Green Templeton College and Saïd Business School, Screen Training Ireland / IFB, the National Film School of Ireland, the Huston School of Film and Digital Media, the London Film Academy, Moonstone, Equinoxe, Media Development Morocco, and with Mira Nair’s Uganda initiative MAISHA.
With STORY CAMPUS he has been involved in training events in the UK with BAFTA, the East End Film Festival, and in Ireland for the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival