Profit & Delight

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Pitching the Wanker

Pitching the Wanker

4 remarkable strokes of luck give me an unexpected chance to shine at Sundance London.

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Arthur Meek
Jul 08, 2023
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I’m heading to Sundance London, where my short film My Eyes are Up Here continues its eye-popping festival run.

Twenty-some and counting. Every one of them is a surprise and a delight. As a writer, I’m used to lurking at the background of these things. The directors are the stars. The producers are the movers and shakers. As a screenwriter at these things, I feel very much on the undercard - but I love the chance to fly-on-the-wall and see how the work of other similar undercarders - like composers, DOPs and accountants - can give me hints that will make my writing/story proposal work better.

Remarkable stroke of luck #1

In one of the many emails I get from the festival, I notice a notice for a Pitching Session - it describes it as something new, further explained in a video, and entered via a google form.

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[The night before] we’ll draw 8 names out of a hat (to make it most democratic) for…

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