Buenos Aires 2013

What is Good Pitch?

Good Pitch is a competition for film projects in development that have a human rights or social focus, which will take place the 10th August 2013 in Buenos Aires, within the framework of the 15th International Human Rights Film Festival.

The competition is jointly organized by BritDoc-Channel 4 and the Instituto Multimedia DerHumALC. It will include a space for training for the chosen directors and will provide a platform for works of social cinema, as well as a professional space for encounters between directors, producers, distributors, public and private television networks, NGOs, film clubs, intellectuals and personalities from the cultural fields, as well as representatives of other festivals dedicated to the exhibition and communication of alternative audiovisual material.

Good Pitch includes debates, workshops, and round tables for the discussion of the projects.

Video Good Pitch · http://vimeo.com/47727267

Development

Pitching Workshop 7th & 8th August 2013The four projects chosen will participate in an intensive workshop to prepare them for Good Pitch

Good Pitch 10th August 2013 at 3pmEach one of the four teams will have 7 minutes to present their project. Once presented, they will each receive 13 minutes of feedback from a round table especially invited for this reason.

Closing cocktail: 6.30pm

Good Pitch event10th August 2013

In the Good Pitch event, each team will have seven (7) minutes to present their film, their promotion campaign, and their trailer, in front of a round table made up of 10 invited representatives and a theater audience of up to 150 participants, made up of:

Foundations, philanthropists, and scholarship funds whose interests are related to the subject

NGOs and non-profit organizations whose mission or campaigns overlap with the subjects raised by the films

Broadcasters and sponsorship platforms from the traditional media

New technology, digital media, social and crowdfunding platforms

Business leaders who have a social profile and whose brands have a Corporate Social Responsibility framework related to the issue

Members of the United Nations, federal, national, and local governments

The first Good Pitch took place in Oxford, Great Britain, two and a half years ago. Eight projects were presented, including the project Resist, penned by the well-known actor Gael García Bernal. To learn more about this event, please see the three-minute trailer in www.goodpitch.org

Since then, Good Pitch has taken place in Toronto, Washington DC, London, San Francisco, and New York, receiving more than 125 organizations and known foundations to participate in the event on each occasion.

In the last two years, Good Pitch has stimulated more than US$2.5m in direct finance, as well as other resources for each project presented.

The results include in-situ financial agreements, marketing proposals, and the development of alliances with NGOs, which continue evolving, as one filmmaker put it “from the first date until the wedding”.

What is the impact?

Among the foundations, brands, and non-profit organizations that have participated in Good Pitch, we can mention the following:

Alliance to End Hunger, American Bar Association, American Red Cross, Amnesty International, Arabella Philanthropic Investment Advisors, Asda Walmart Foundation, Ashoka, Babelgum, BAVC Producers Institute for New Media Technologies, BBC, Ben & Jerry's Foundation, The Bezos Family Foundation, Andrea & Charles Bronfman Philanthropies, The Calvert Foundation, CARE, Center for Asian American Media Fund, The Center for American Progress, Center for Constitutional Rights, Cinereach, The William J. Clinton Foundation, Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Craigslist Foundation, CrossCurrents Foundation, Dalberg Global Development, Democracy Alliance, Edelman, Facing History and Ourselves, Fenton Communications, The Fledgling Fund, The Ford Foundation, Funders Concerned About AIDS, Give2Asia, The Global Fund for Women, Global Youth Action Network, Google, Grantmakers in Film and Electronic Media, Green for All, Greenpeace, HBO, HSBC, Idealist.org, International Human Rights Funding Group, Impact Partners, ITVS, Kiva.org, The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, McKinsey & Co, MTV, NAACP, Naked Edge Films, National Coalition of 100 Black

Women, The Nathan Cummings Foundation, The National Black Programming Consortium, The National Endowment for the Arts, The National Gallery of Art, Nike, Nokia, ONE, One Economy/PIC.tv, The Opportunity Agenda, OWN (Oprah Winfrey Network), OSI, Oxfam, The Paley Center for Media, PBS, Physicians for Human Rights, Planet Green, POV, Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting, Puma. Creative, Saatchi & Saatchi, Search for Common Ground, SEIU, Sierra Club, Skoll Foundation, Sundance Channel, Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program, TED, The Tides Foundation, Tribeca Gucci Documentary Fund, Twenty-First Century Foundation, UN Department of Public Information (DPI), UNHCR, Whole Foods, WITNESS, Women Donors Network, World Economic Forum.

International Human Rights Film FestivalDirector: Florencia Santucho

Florida 276 // Planta baja // Buenos Aires // ArgentinaTel. +54 11 4328 2978 // http://www.imd.org.ar eMail: produccioncomercial@imd.org.ar

Audiovisual Material

Each edition of the DerHumALC Festival has audiovisual and photographic records. The following are the materials from the 14th Festival, which took place in May 2012:

Spot 14th International Human Rights Film Festivalhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6T88Lfo3uc

14th International Human Rights Film Festival – May 2012http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMIC5LqEWSI

DerHumALC YouTube Channel + videoshttp://www.youtube.com/user/DerhumALC