Pitch Your Film at IndieGoGo's AFCI Pitch Camp and Win over $4,000 in Prizes. Tag your project to Enter!

IndieGoGo Pitch Camp at AFCI!  Enter Today!

On April 15th IndieGoGo is hosting Pitch Camp at AFCI’s Locations Trade Show in Santa Monica. Five film projects will be selected to pitch to a panel of Hollywood & Indie Film veterans. The winner will receive over $4,000 in cash and prizes.  Details follow.

AFCI Locations Trade Show
April 15 – 16, 2010
Doubletree Hotel, Santa Monica, CA

Pitch Camp
12:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Pitch your narrative or documentary feature film to a panel of industry veterans.  Receive feedback and win cash & prizes!

How To Enter
Register by creating a project on IndieGoGo and adding the "pitchAFCI" tag.  (Instructions)  

Criteria
Filmmakers should submit if their project matches the following criteria:

• Project type - feature film or documentary film
• Project stage - development, production, a work-in-progress or complete
• Purpose of Pitch - fundraising, feedback, or distribution

Projects will be selected based on the information and media presented on their IndieGoGo pitch page.

Structure
Each selected filmmaker will have 5 minutes to pitch their project.  If showing a trailer or clips, they must include that in their 5 minutes.  Judges will then have 5 minutes to give feedback.  After all five pitches, a winner will be announced!

Judging feedback
Judges will evaluate and provide feedback on the following:

• Quality of the story
• Quality of the project's promotional campaign
• Quality of the pitch delivery itself

Prize
The winner will be awarded:

• $1,000
• 1 (one) industry pass to the "Produced-By Conference" taking place June 4-6, 2010 in Los Angeles
• A Film grant of 5,000 feet of film (either 16mm or 35mm film stock - your choice)

Open "Speed Pitching" Session
After the finalists pitch and the winner is announced, IndieGoGo will open the floor to filmmakers in the audience to deliver a 2 minute pitch (no videos please).   AFCI will select 10 random attendees the day of the live event to compete in this open "Speed Pitching" session. The winner of this session will also receive:

• 1 (one) industry pass to AFCI's Cineposium (a 2-day AFCI educational event being held November 1-2 in Los Angeles at the Sheraton Universal where film commissions from around the world gather)

Judges
The judging panel varies from Hollywood execs to programmers.  Pitch Camp is a great opportunity to get feedback from and access to professionals who might be able to help your project - whatever stage it's in.  Judges include:

• Ravi Mehta: Senior Vice President of Physical Production, Warner Bros. Pictures
• Josh Welsh: Director of Talent Development, Film Independent
• Chris J. Russo: Independent Feature Accounts, Eastman Kodak Company
• Richie Lowell: Director of Development WWE Studios
• Ilyse McKimmie: Associate Director of Feature Film Program, Sundance 

Timeline

Projects must be tagged by Monday, March 29.  Finalists will be announced by Thursday April 8.  Pitch Camp is April 15.  

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