Pitch Practice Panel

PITCH PRACTICE VIRTUAL PANEL:

Monday, July 18th, 7-9pm

WIFSBA Members free, Non-members $5

Join Women in Film SF Bay Area for a Pitch Practice Event! Even if you are not pitching, you can observe. Each panelist will give advice on pitching a feature or TV series! If you are a writer, writer/director, or writer/producer, come prepared with a 2 to 3-minute verbal pitch that includes your logline. After the panelists speak, we will go into breakout rooms where participants can practice pitching to a panelist and each other in a small group. Each panelist will choose one pitch, then we'll all reconvene and listen to the chosen projects and the pitchers will get advice from all the panelists.

Panelists include:

    Joey Tuccio (Roadmap Writers, CEO)

Joey started in the industry at Bold Films (DRIVE, NIGHTCRAWLER, WHIPLASH) and has read for Hugh Jackman's company, George Clooney's company, and Night and Day Pictures, to name a few. The only thing Joey is more passionate about than helping writers is rescuing dogs.

    Alex Davies (Roadmap Writers, Director of Education)

Alexandra holds a degree in English Literature from UCLA, which she earned while pursuing acting. As the Director of Education at Roadmap, Alex strives to identify the most common hurdles writers face in developing their work and designs classes, clinics, and webinars to address these issues.

    Lisa Rosenberg (Screenwriter and Story Consultant)

Lisa is currently adapting her coming-of-age screenplay, GRAFT, for a 2023 online theatrical production by Massachusetts theatre company PlayZoomers, while circulating the screenplay. Productions Lisa has written for have won an Emmy, a Codie, an Action for Children’s Television Award, a New York Film Festival Gold Medal, Cine Golden Eagles, and a nomination for a Peabody Award.

    Diane Walsh (Producer and former Program Director, ABC Family)

Diane was a TV producer in Los Angeles for 20 years and received an Emmy nomination for Hallmark Hall of Fame's "A Place for Annie," starring Sissy Spacek. She served as Director of Programming for the Family Channel, taught writing at UCLA and AFI, and recently retired as Director of the Writing for Film/TV Program at Philadelphia's University of the Arts.

***For your protection, we always recommend registering your work with the WGA. Please note that this session is purely for educational purposes and is not an official pitch to WIFSBA or the panelists.

Participant acknowledges that some of the panelists are in the business of creating and developing videos and receive various proposals relating to potential projects, ideas and concepts. Panelists may be independently developing programs substantially similar and even identical to the submission. Therefore, any similarity between a submission and any element in any current, future, or existing panelists’ project, creative work would be purely coincidental. Panelists will not, and have no obligation to, treat any submissions as confidential or proprietary, and will incur no liability with respect to the submission. ***