Perfect Your Pitch Panel | 2023 BRIC Community Media TV & Film Pitch Series
BRIC House
647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY 11217, USA
New York
40.68884670000001
-73.97905759999999
Description
BRIC's two Community Media TV Networks—Brooklyn Free Speech and BRIC TV—come together to bring you a unique opportunity: the 2023 BRIC Community Media TV & Film Pitch Series. The series was
created with one goal in mind— to turn media dreamers into media makers. Through a series of courses, panel discussions, and networking events, participants will learn all of what they need to know to package and pitch their project.
Thurs, Oct 26, 7PM | Perfect Your Pitch Panel Discussion
BRIC House Stoop
So you have an idea for a TV show or film—now what? The ability to express an idea is almost as important as the idea itself and we are eager to help you with that. The BRIC Community Media TV & Film Pitch Series gives you the opportunity to practice and perfect your pitch skills over the course of three months in front of industry heavy hitters, and a live audience. You will learn valuable techniques from industry insiders on how to prepare a TV/film pitch including: developing a hook, considering your audience, and coming up with a pitch deck and sizzle reel.
MODERATOR
Kecia Élan Cole
She / her | @keciaelan
Kecia Élan Cole is a 5 time NY Emmy-nominated executive producer, series producer, series creator, supervising producer, content creator, showrunner, director, video editor, writer and development team member. She currently serves as the Director of Fiction at BRIC TV where she executive produces several docu-series including: Brooklyn Made, Neighborhood Beat, B-Side, Touré Show, Brooklyn Is Masquerading As The World and Waxing Cinematic. She is an Executive Producer on several original scripted series/films that have premiered at noteworthy film festivals such as TriBeca, SeriesFest and UrbanWorld and ABFF including: They Charge for The Sun, Sole Kings, All Hail Beth, The Future Is Then, Sauce, Eighty-Sixed, The United Space of America (animated), The Memories Trilogy, Inspector Ike (feature film), and the forthcoming The Woods Are Real (feature film), Growing Community, Problematic, Ghosted, Dolla Van and Girls Aren’t Funny. She curates and moderates numerous panels on topics ranging from pitching for TV to Afrofuturism. Kecia is pro-active, creative and curious about the world.
PERFECT YOUR PITCH PANELISTS
Caralene Robinson
She / her | @itscaralene
Caralene Robinson is a writer, director, producer and marketer committed to telling meaningful stories. She has worked for some of the biggest brands in the world, including Coca Cola and Sprint. In these roles she oversaw campaigns, working with a range of directors such as Francis Lewis, Spike Lee and Errol Morris. Most recently she led marketing at VH1 and Logo, launching all series, original movies and documentaries. Several years ago while working full-time Caralene expanded beyond marketing campaigns by producing classic documentary "Versailles ’73: American Runway Revolution". After falling in love with film, she decided to pursue her passion full-time time, beginning with scripted short The Bill. The Bill premiered at more than a dozen festivals, won three awards and is available on Prime Video and Kweli.tv. Caralene’s recent projects include producing digital series Sauce and King Ester, and directing shorts DisordHer and Lifeline. King Ester screened at fifteen festivals and recently premiered on Issa Rae Presents Youtube Channel. DisordHer launches on Prime Video next month and Lifeline is in the festival submission phase. Sauce premiered on BRIC TV in March 2020. Caralene also works with brands having produced, written and directed spots for Dove, AARP, and Corcoran. Caralenerobinson.com
Patrick Coker
He / him | @pcoke
Patrick Coker is a Producer / writer best known as the Executive Producer and Showrunner for TALES ON BET, and most recently as Supervising Producer on the hit cop drama, East New York on CBS. Patrick has been involved in the Theater, Film and TV industry since the mid-90’s, as an actor, director and content provider. A graduate of the LIU Media Arts Program with an M.F.A. in Directing, he has been the creative mind behind many indie music videos, short films and the feature film Shankman’s Deli. Some of his other projects include Balance, Judy’s Child, White Pickett Fence, SHHHH, Heroin(e) and Moves We Make, all on the festival circuit. Patrick serves on the Board of Directors for the Queen City film Festival (NJ). Patrick is from Brooklyn and a proud member of Writers Guild of America WGA East and the Directors Guild of America.
Yoruba Richen
She / her | @redrubes
Yoruba Richen is an award winning documentary filmmaker whose work has been featured on multiple outlets, including Netflix, MSNBC, FX/Hulu, HBO and PBS. Her most recent film The Rebellious Life of Mrs Rosa Parks premiered at Tribeca Film Festival and won a Peabody Award. It is currently streaming on Peacock. Other recent work include the Emmy-nominated films American Reckoning (Frontline), How It Feels to Be Free (American Masters), The Sit In: Harry Belafonte Hosts the Tonight Show (Peacock) and Green Book: Guide to Freedom (Smithsonian Channel). She directed an episode of the award-winning series Black and Missing for HBO and High on the Hog for Netflix. Her film, The Killing of Breonna Taylor won an NAACP Image Award and is streaming on HULU. Her previous films, The New Black and Promised Land won multiple festival awards before airing on PBS’s Independent Lens and P.O.V. Yoruba is a past Guggenheim and Fulbright fellow and she won the Creative Promise Award at Tribeca All Access. She was a Sundance Producers Fellow and Women’s Fellow and is a recipient of the Chicken & Egg Breakthrough Filmmaker’s Award. Yoruba is the Founding Director of the Documentary Program at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY.
Tony Gerber
He/him | @marketroadfilms
Tony Gerber is an Emmy and PGA award-winning writer, producer and filmmaker. He has written and directed over a dozen documentaries for National Geographic, shot in some of the most remote and dangerous regions of the world. Most recently he directed and executive produced Kingdom of the White Wolf, a 3-part natural history series for National Geographic, filmed on location on Ellesmere Island in the Canadian High Arctic. He is a producer of the critically acclaimed, PGA award-winning film Jane about the life and work of Dr. Jane Goodall. His documentary Explorer: Battle for Virunga, about the fight to protect mountain gorillas in the Democratic Republic of Congo, (National Geographic Channel) was a 2017 recipient of a Genesis Award, the Humane Society’s top honor for bringing critical animal protection issues to the public. For CNN Films he directed, and co-wrote with Meryl Streep, We Will Rise chronicling former First Lady Michelle Obama’s trip to Africa to raise awareness of the importance of girl’s education, featuring Meryl Streep, Isha Sesay and Freida Pinto. The film was a recipient of an American Television Academy Honor and a Cine Golden Eagle. His independent films include Full Battle Rattle (Berlinale premiere and SXSW Special Jury Prize) and The Notorious Mr. Bout (Sundance, 2014). In 2005, Gerber co-founded NY-based production company, Market Road Films, with two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage. Gerber produced Emma Francis Snyder’s Oscar short-listed documentary Takeover about the Young Lords 1970 take-over of the failing Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx, which made affordable healthcare a topic of national debate. The film is a recipient of support from Ford Just Films and Open Society Foundation. Gerber and Nottage Executive Produced Deep South, a 10-part podcast for Stitcher investigating an unsolved 1950s lynching and the conspiracy of silence in a small southern town. Gerber is an professor at the Fierstein Graduate School of Cinema at Steiner Studios in New York City.
Times
Start:
2023-10-26T19:00:00-04:00
End:
2023-10-26T21:00:00-04:00
Category
Film
Tickets
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USD
500
