GOOD PITCH² Buenos Aires 2013
Within the framework of the 15th International Film Festival on Human Rights, organized by the DerHumALC Multimedia Institute, Good Pitch ² Buenos Aires will take place this year for the first time in Latin America.
What is Good Pitch² Buenos Aires?
It’s a contest for developing film projects focusing on human rights issues, to be held on August 10, 2013 in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, within the framework of the 15th International Film Festival of Human Rights (https://goodpitch.org/events/gpba2013).
Good Pitch² Buenos Aires is carried out by Channel 4 BRITDOC Foundation, Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program and DerHumALC Multimedia Institute, in collaboration with Ford Foundation.
The event provides room for formation for the selected directors and sets a platform for the diffusion of social films; it is a space for professional gatherings between directors, producers, distributors, State and private TV channels and NGOs, film clubs, culture intellectuals and personalities, as well as representatives of other festivals devoted to the exhibition and diffusion of alternative audiovisual material.
Good Pitch² Buenos Aires team will select four projects that will undergo a strategic campaign for two months and an intensive two-day workshop, so as to help them focus their pitch and define the potential for alliances for their project.
At the Good Pitch² event, filmmakers will have the opportunity to present their films/documentaries before a wide audience of specially selected personalities –NGOs, foundations, philanthropists media, brands, politicians, etc.– who, not only share an interest and concern for the appointed topics in the films, but also will be able to provide essential resources, such as distribution ways, financing, infrastructure, facilities, contacts, knowledge.
Schedule
Pitching workshop August 7 and 8, 2013
- The four selected projects will participate in an intensive workshop that will prepare them for the pitch.
Good Pitch² event: Saturday August 10, 2013 - 15:00 hs.
- Each of the four teams each team will have 7 minutes to present their project before ten selected guests and the theater audience. After their presentation, each of them will receive thirteen-minutes feedback from a roundtable specially appointed for each project.
Closing Cocktail: 18:30 hs.
How I can attend?
Mail to: infofestival@imd.org.ar
https://goodpitch.org/events/gpba2013
What is the impact?
The first Good Pitch event was carried out in Oxford, England, two and a half years ago: eight projects were presented, including Resist project, whose author is renowned actor Gael García Bernal. Since that moment, Good Pitch has taken place in Toronto, Washinton D.C., London, San Francisco and New York, welcoming over 125 known foundations and organizations, to participate in the event on each occasion. Over the last two years, Good Pitch has encouraged over $2.5 million dollars in direct financing, as well as other resources for each presented project. The results include the financing agreement in-situ, diffusion proposals and alliances to NGOs development, which have continued to evolve, such as a filmmaker expressed “from the first date to the wedding”.
Selected projects
“Territorios” (Lands)
Director: Julián Perini Pazos
Status: In Process
Resistance stories, gathered communities that fight for their rights.
In the North of Argentina, many rural native communities are pushed over by the progress of the agricultural and mining border, and their claims are not being listened to; even worse, authorities criminalize the protests, communities divide or agreements are delayed.
“9.70”
Director: Victoria Solano
Executive Producer: Marco Cartolano
Field Producer: Juan Guillermo Rodríguez
Status: Completed
The 9.70 resolution was issued on 2010 to control the use of seed in Colombia. It's a resolution that applies the concepts of intellectual property to the seeds, and that was promulgated as a requirement for the approval of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Colombia and the United States. The documentary analyzes the impacts of this resolution taking as an example the case of Campoalegre, a village south of Colombia where said measure was applied: in 2011 the Organism in charge of agricultural control in Colombia (ICA) reached the town council and confiscated 70 tons of rice; then came back with State force and finally destroyed the seed on a dumpster for considering it illegal. The 9.70 resolution, with the severe impacts it exerts on Colombian agriculture, is just an example of the conditions that United States has imposed on Colombia for signing the FTA.
“Mujeres con pelota” (Goals for Girls)
Directors: Ginger Gentile and Gabriel Balanovsky
Producer: Gabriel Balanovsky
Status: Completed
Awards: winner of funds from INCAA (Audiovisual Arts and Films National Institute).
In Buenos Aires, where soccer is a men's thing, a group of girls in Villa 31 (a shanty town) struggle to have their own team. With persistence and courage they go through a road full of obstacles which, in the end, will make their never imagined dream come true: participating in the Homeless World Cup in Brazil. With this onset, Goals for Girls dives in the ignored world of women's soccer in Argentina. It reveals how the prejudice of the families and the total lack of support from the local management conspire against the development of a growing sport throughout the world, and go precisely against the prediction of the president of FIFA himself: 'The future of soccer is the womens''.
“El vals de los inútiles” (The Waltz of the Useless)
Director: Edison Cájas
Producer: Natalia de la Vega, Catalina Donoso
Status: Post-Production Process
A teenager immersed in the political atmosphere of school and a former inmate of Pinochet's dictatorship who rediscovers his past struggle in the present. They join in a city protest that claims for free education for Chile. In relation to the social manifestation produced in the country on 2011, Darío and Miguel Ángel start to experiment an interior transformation that leads them to question their present.
Through their stories we will discover a broken country due to the dictatorship, not entirely rebuilt and where effects and wounds from the past have not totally healed yet. Along them two generations are depicted, in the middle of the social agitation of a country that did not raise its voice in such a way since the dictatorship's end.
Good Pitch Workshop
Friday, August, 9th
from 7 to 9 pm
Presentation of Good Pitch: Delivered by Bruni Burres and Patricia Finneran (BritDoc Foundation and Sundance Institute). Participants: Pamela Yates and Paco De Onis, "Good Pitch Veterans” sharing his experience with the documentary project Granito.
Talk introductory “Impact Producers”: By Paula Vaccaro, member of the “Impact Producers” of BRITDOC. Introduction to the elements necessary for evaluations to impact on society through film.
Mail to: outreachgp2ba@imd.org.ar
https://goodpitch.org/events/gpba2013
