IDA Member Hours: How to Position Your Project (Beyond Grant Writing)

There are many paths toward securing outside support for your project, but all of them involve the development of written and visual materials. Whether you are applying for grants, seeking a slot in a film festival market, looking for a sales agent, pitching to production companies or commissioners, sending materials to partners and collaborators, or readying your film for screenings, it’s vitally important to think about how you are positioning both the project and yourself as a filmmaker. Writing all with these varied audiences and goals in mind can help filmmakers not only frame their projects but also summon into existence more opportunities for their documentary filmmaking career. The audience for your film is not only the general public that will watch the finished product, but also the supporters that will get you there and beyond.

In this IDA members-only workshop, veteran marketing expert and researcher Fred Greene will give a brief presentation on different moments filmmakers can position and present themselves in their projects. Greene will follow this talk with a series of short strategy sessions with pre-selected projects workshopping their written materials, and conclude with an audience Q&A.

Learn more at https://www.documentary.org/event/how-position-your-project-beyond-grant-writing-1