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"If you can't sell your project every time you pitch it, then there something wrong with it."

Can't find funding? No one wants to invest? Perhaps it's the idea or some aspect of the project/package? Get a doc proposal check up, and tune up. This daylong workshop is intended to help you decide if that dream doc is worth pursuing and if it's not selling, how to fix it.

Why isn't your project attracting funding from a studio, network or cable, company, sponsor or other funders? It can ONLY be six things:

• The package?
• The proposal?
• The idea?
• The budget?
• The production team?
• Are you pitching to the right people?

Explore how your doc project can be tuned up, cleaned up or perhaps junked.
Find out who might produce it, how to pitch it, what is needed to sell it, and which broadcasters or cable companies should be considered.

Find ways to make your packaging bankable.

We'll look over your proposals and see why it's not pulling in offers. You will receive hard information to build into your business plan and make your project sell.

We will review each individual project and review case studies to develop an understanding of how to pitch and sell projects. Case studies come from the class and the instructor's extensive collection of actual productions. You do not need a project to attend but preference will be given to those that have them. A one-page project description will be requested at time of registration for review if it's available.

Ideas or projects at any stage of development are welcome. We spend the day reviewing a number of projects as a group. This class can be taken multiple times since it is directed to the individual students' projects.

When you register, e-mail a copy of your proposal (up to 2 pages) to Block at mwblock@aol.com.

Student Comments:

"I was a student in your weekend class at FAF last month. I wanted to touch base just to say thank you for the class and for the vast information in the packed you made for us."

"Thank you for the invaluable information you passed on to all of us at the FAF workshops earlier this month. I have been transferring and consolidating my notes and cannot begin to express the value I am getting from them. Truly a revelation... Thank you for your patience and dedication to assisting the less experienced."

"I found both workshops informative and inspiring. The message I got most clearly was get funding first, (don't put your own money into it) and it will change the way I work."
--Jennifer Haskins

"I had a good time today. Very stimulating and quite helpful."
--William Gazecki