About
What is the Pitching Forum?
- It’s the DocsBarcelona section targeted at documentary professionals, a platform to foster the documentary industry, and a meeting point for professionals from all over the world.
- The Pitching Forum creates a context where filmmakers and producers can present their documentary projects in development in order to attract finance, co-production, pre-buys and/or distribution from documentary broadcasters, producers or distributors.
- It’s a space that provides a good opportunity for networking between international professionals.
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DocsBarcelona Pitching Forum was created in 1996 by EDN, who currently co-organize the event.
When and where:
Dates and times: Thursday and Friday 4th and 5th of February 2010
Times: from 10h to 14h (one-to-one meetings from 16h to 18.30h)
Where: Espai Jove la Fontana, Gracia district of Barcelona (190/192, Gran de Gracia St.)
Language: English
How it works:
- Twenty-four projects previously selected by a professional committee will be presented in front of a panel of commissioning editors, ‘Row 0’, and members of the audience that register as observers.
- In the evening one-to-one meetings will take place between pitchers and commissioning editors to negotiate.
- Duration: 7 minutes of presentation + 7 minutes for questions and answers.
- As training for the Pitching Forum, the Pitching Workshop will take place on the 2nd and 3rd of February. For two days, the pitchers will work intensively on improving their project presentation with the aid of 4 international tutors with extensive industry experience.
Glossary of terms:
Pitch: Project presentation in front of commissioning editors and professional audience (producers, distributors, etc.)
Commissioming Editor: potential financier/ broadcasting representative with decision-making power regarding coproduction and sales.
Row 0: distributors, sales agents, local TV representatives that attend the Pitching Forum.
Pitcher: person who presents a Project.
Observer: person who attends as a listener.
One-to-one meetings: meeting between a commissioning editor and the pitcher(s) that presents a Project.
Pitching Workshop: activity taking place prior to the Pitching Forum where a group of tutors helps the pitchers improve their presentations.
2010 Novelty: pitch number 13 – 'the lucky pitch'
For this 13th edition of the Pitching Forum, amongst the observers with projects in development, a draw will take place giving two lucky winners the chance to pitch their projects in front of the panel of commissioning editors. They will be the 13th pitches. The winners will be announced at the start of each session.