The line up has been announced. Krakow Film Foundation is among friends and allies of the project.
The line up for Good Pitch Europe 2013, which returns to the Royal Institution of Great Britain in London on 7th June has been announced.
Good Pitch is an invitation-only event where, after months of careful preparation and strategising, 6 filmmaking teams pitch their feature documentary and its associated audience engagement campaign in front of a live audience of funders and changemakers. Good Pitch brings together independent documentary films and organisations with innovation and social change at their heart.
The international line up of filmmakers, who will be travelling from Norway, Israel, Palestine, Belgium, USA, Austria, Germany and Romania to participate in the event includes Johan Grimonprez (The Shadow World), Amber Fares (Speed Sisters), Augusto Baugstø Hanssen (Ida’s Diary), Michaela Kirst, Ebba Sinzinger & Monica Lazurean-Gorgan (Green, Green, Green), Elisa Paloschi (Driving with Selvi) and Orlando von Einsiedel (Untitled Gorilla Project)
The projects will be pitched to an invited group of leading European foundations, NGOs, policymakers, brands, advertising and digital agencies, social entrepreneurs and media organisations with the aim of creating unique coalitions around each film to accelerate its social and political impact.
A project of the BRITDOC Foundation in partnership with the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program, the team worked with staff and advisors to choose the films for this edition of Good Pitch. Krakow Film Foundation is among friends and allies of the project.
The six selected projects feature stories from across the globe. These documentaries take a close look at the international arms trade, mental health and self-harm, women’s empowerment in India, international trade and legal frameworks, and the first all-women motor racing team in the Middle East.
Good Pitch Europe 2013 is the second Good Pitch of 2013, with the first event taking place at the Ford Foundation in New York on April 30th. For more information on Good Pitch events in 2013, see www.goodpitch.org.
For more information about Good Pitch, contact Elise McCave at the BRITDOC Foundation: [email protected] or on +44 (0)207 534 9627.
More about the selected projects:
Ida’s Diary
Dir. August Baugstø Hanssen
Deliberate self-harm is a growing health hazard among teenagers.
Ida hurt herself for the first time when she was 10. At 25 she managed to stop hurting herself after many years in the limbo of youth psychiatry. The film is based on Ida’s private video diary. A film about fighting adversity, about hope and about becoming the person you want to be.
Speed Sisters
Dir. Amber Fares
The Middle East’s first all-women motor racing team has come together, despite the odds, in the occupied West Bank. As Palestine seeks statehood, racing prodigy Marah must overcome the barriers that stand between her and her dream of racing under the Palestinian flag on the world stage.
Green, Green, Green
Dirs. Ebba Sinzinger, Michaela Kirst and Monica Lazurean-Gorgan
Green, Green, Green is a film about international trade and legal frameworks.
Untitled Gorilla Project
Dir. Orlando von Einsiedel
Untitled Gorilla Project follows the incredible true story of a group of brave individuals, risking their lives to save the last of the world’s mountain gorillas in the midst of renewed civil war.
Driving with Selvi
Dir. Elisa Paloschi
Set in the South Indian state of Karnataka, Driving With Selvi tells the story of Selvi who, against all odds, overcomes life-threatening obstacles and defies strict patriarchal traditions by bravely escaping the abusive marriage she was forced into as a young girl to become Karnataka’s first female taxi driver.
The Shadow World
Dir. Johan Grimonprez
The Shadow World is a feature documentary that presents unique insight into the international arms trade: not just its known role in defense, but also – with the complicity of governments and secret services, investigative and prosecutorial bodies, weapons manufacturers, dealers and agents – how it covertly fosters corruption, determines foreign and economic policies, undermines democracy and creates widespread suffering.