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Prepare for AWG’s 1st Pitchfest! To help fine-tune and target your pitches, AWG has scheduled a pitch preparation session on Saturday, June 28. Jeff Szalay, a producer with Summit Productions, will present tips on pitching, answer your questions, and offer pitch critiques to interested parties. You do not have to pitch your idea in order to attend. Members who do attend, however, get first dibs on pitch times for the Pitchfest. Jeff and his partner, Edward Plumb, will be among the producers taking pitches on July 12. July 12 – AWG Members-Only Pitchfest
Please plan on only pitching completed scripts, and take time to workshop and polish them prior to submission. Your goals between now and the Pitchfest: finish your scripts, get them reviewed in the SIGs or through AWG Coverage, and get polish them up. Marc Cushman GENRES ACCEPTED:
Following up Marc’s recent Best Picture win at the Mockfest for his
mockumentary, “Desperately Seeking Paul McCartney,” an idea pitched to
him by an AWG member during a general meeting, Marc is accepting pitches
for other reality shows, mockumentaries, comedy/documentaries or serious
documentaries. While this has been his focus of late, he is really “open
to anything” he says. He has picked up scripts from Sue Templeton, Chuck
Harris and Joan Bass (all AWG members) in the past, and they all got
optioned, so hone your scripts and your pitches for Marc so you can be
his next success story! William L. Graham
GENRES ACCEPTED: Find the
Funny is looking for high concept projects for studio and independent
production. Emmy-nominated filmmaker, Bill Graham, is a principal at
Find the Funny productions. Bill's experience as a filmmaker ranges from writer to production coordinator to director. In 2004 he grabbed an Emmy nomination for "Outstanding Special Visual Effects For A Miniseries, Movie Or a Special" as Lead Matte Painter on the TNT movie The Winning Season. Bill got behind the camera as one of several videographers on the experimental feature, Man of the Year, starring John Ritter. In Chicago, he directed stage productions including Nevermore at Victory Gardens Theatre, which featured his short films, and his own adaptation of Sam Shepherd's Motel Chronicles at the Bailiwick Repertory. He also directed I Think It's Gonna Need A Little Drywall, a PSA for Habitat For Humanity, featuring Harry Belafonte, and he directed the short film St. Tony's, a comedy about a Gospel church on Chicago's South Side. In the last two years he has collaborated with wife Rosa Graham by producing the Find the Funny Awards, now a "mark your calendar" April Fool's Day event. As a writer, Bill authors comedies and thrillers and was awarded the Illinois Arts Council Fellowship for Screenwriting twice; once for co-writing the drama The Listener, and again for Day 19. Additionally, he worked with actor Russell Crowe to develop a romantic comedy for him to star in. Edward L. Plumb and Jeff Szalay GENRES ACCEPTED: Studio feature films in all genres except for historical pieces and adaptations. Must be original work. Edward L. Plumb,
www.bloodbyte.com Jeff Szalay, Summit
Productions He’s submitted feature film projects to Touchstone Pictures, Imagine Entertainment, Castle Rock Pictures, Yorktown Productions, Mirage Enterprises, Tribeca Productions, Baltimore & Spring Creek Pictures, Icon Productions, Silver Pictures, Mandalay Pictures and submitted television projects to NBC Productions, Hallmark Entertainment, USA Network, Lifetime Television and Turner Network Television. His screenplay PRIVATEER
was a semifinalist in the Creative Screenwriting Magazine-sponsored AAA
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