Description
The art of the pitch is crucial to getting your scripts read. But most workshops on pitching only address pitching in competitions. And while the competition pitch is a valuable skill, how you pitch your projects in conversation – whether you’re at networking events or in general meetings – that’s where you are really going to sell your work.
Goldie’s pitching strategy, that taps into her 20+ year background in marketing, has been proven over and over again in pitch fests, competitions, and in general meetings with industry execs. Goldie’s pitches have successfully taken first and second place in multiple pitch competitions. And in dozens of general meetings with execs from major studios, Goldie’s pitch strategy has led to those execs requesting to read anywhere from 2 to 5 of her scripts out of a single meeting.
This hour long online workshop will walk you through Goldie’s pitching strategy, the neuroscience behind making your pitches memorable, and the differences in building a pitch for competition and crafting your conversational pitches that you can pull out whenever the opportunity arises to let your storytelling brilliance shine.
Wednesday October 16th at 7pm.
Zoom link will be provided to everyone registered 24 hours before the workshop.
Instructor Bio:
Goldie Jones is a non-binary writer/director repped by Heroes & Villains Entertainment and a serial entrepreneur with 20+ years in marketing and commercial production as an editor, animator, DP, director, and creative director.
They’re a Universal Writers Program Finalist, Stowe Launch Fellow, and WIF Mentee in the Director’s Circle. She’s won over 100 accolades as a writer/director including 2nd place at Slamdance and Cinequest, Second Rounder for the 2023 and 2025 Sundance Development Track and the Lynn Shelton “Of a Certain Age” Grant, Top 5% for The Writers Lab 2023, and Top 5 finalist for production grants from WIF and ISA.
Her short film “I’m Sorry, I Tried, I Love You”, starring Finnerty Steeves of ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK, was a Hollyshorts Screenplay Competition Finalist, winner of the WIF Seattle Professional Grant and premiered at Dance with Films.
