Call for Entries: PaleyDocFest Pitch Workshop Contest



In Association with the Documentary Channel

Special Extended Deadline Sept. 7, 2011

The PaleyDocFest Pitch Contest offers a $5,000 grant, sponsored by the Documentary Channel, for an unfinished or work-in-progress documentary from an emerging filmmaker.

The Paley Center for Media is using this contest, now in its eighth year, to choose five finalists who will pitch their unfinished films to a panel of experts and producers in front of an audience. This event, the PaleyDocFest Pitch Workshop, will take place on Saturday, October 29, 2011, in New York as part of the Paley Center's twelfth annual documentary festival.


To Enter Pitch Contest

To enter this contest, you must submit no more than ten minutes of footage from an UNFINISHED or WORK-IN-PROGRESS feature-length documentary that you hope to pitch to our panel. You must also send in a printed and filled-out entry form (below.)

We will judge entries based on the originality of your vision and the viability of the concept. At the pitch workshop, finalists will be judged by originality, viability and the persuasiveness of their pitch to our panel.

Entries must be postmarked by deadline. Deadlines and fees are as follows:

Earlybird deadline: August 3, 2011 ($20 regular submission fee / $15 for Withoutabox members submitting through Withoutabox)
Regular deadline: August 17, 2011 ($25 / $20 for Withoutabox members)
Late deadline: August 31, 2011 ($30 / $25 for Withoutabox members)
Special extended deadline: Sept. 7, 2011 ($40 / $30 for Withoutabox members)
Withoutabox extended deadline: Sept. 14, 2011 ($50 / $35 for Withoutabox members)

There are two ways to submit:

 

1) We accept entries through Withoutabox.

OR

2) To submit on your own, download the following PDF forms.

Overview |  Official Rules |  Entry Form & Submission Agreement

Then print out, sign, and mail a complete and fully executed copy of the Entry Form & Submission Agreement, along with your DVD, submission materials, and a check for your entry fee made out to The Paley Center for Media to:

Pitch Workshop

c/o The Paley Center for Media

9th Floor

25 West 52 Street 

New York, NY 10019
 

PREVIOUS WINNERS
2010: Charge directed by Mike Plunkett
2009: From Texas to Tehran directed by Till Schauder
2008: Circo directed by Aaron Schock
2007: The House that Herman Built directed by Angad Bhalla
2006: Whatever it Takes directed by Christopher Wong
2005: Asparagus! (A Stalk-umentary) directed by Anne de Mare and Kirsten Kelly

 

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