Scottish Screenwriters Festival @ HB Fest present: Pitching workshop with Sasha Damjanovski

PITCH ME PERFECT - preparing and delivering a great pitch

with Sasha Damjanovski

Whether you are writing, directing, or producing, whether your project is a short, a feature or a TV series, chances are you will be doing an awful lot of pitching! The good news it that the skills required for pitching can be learned easily. Better still, they can be adapted to the specifics of your project, the circumstances you’re pitching in and your own personality.

The PITCH ME PERFECT workshop will address all of the above. Come and learn how to identify the hook of your project and how to make it exciting to others. Learn how to prepare well and how to deliver a perfect pitch in different circumstances. Learn how to deal with nerves, how to show authenticity, create a connection with your audience. Find out what is more powerful than PowerPoint.

This is an intensive, insightful and interactive short course covering all aspects of pitching, PITCH ME PERFECT is also lots of fun and with plenty of time for Q&A.

Sasha Damjanovski is an award-winning writer, director and producer. He has created a great variety of projects - feature and short films, broadcast TV, theatre plays and numerous short-form commercial projects. He is also a coach specialising in pitching and public speaking among other topics, and works with filmmakers of all calibres, as well as individual and corporate clients from other business sectors. He is an associate lecturer at Central Saint Martins, London. sashadamjanovski.com

The Scottish Screenwriters Festival is a yearly 2 day event that gathers industry speakers, A-listers and newcomers at the Dakota Hotel in Eurocentral, Motherwell.