Creating a Pitch Deck

Big Apple Film Festival

A pitch deck is possibly one of the most important tools in presenting your script or proof of concept to a studio, producer, agent, manager or potential investor. The goal of an effective pitch deck is to clearly communicate the creative elements, such as your story, key plot points, and character development, as well as the aspects of the project that will be most important to investors, such as a potential cast, marketing plan, PR campaign and budget.

In this session veteran producer and manager Elissa Friedman will identify the elements that make a successful pitch deck, how to structure your pitch deck and strategies for grabbing the attention of industry executives.

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Elissa Friedman

Literary Manager, Zero Gravity Management

Elissa Friedman is a manager, producer, and former development executive with over fifteen years of industry experience. Before becoming a literary manager at Zero Gravity Management and NEER Films, Elissa ran production and development at Covert Media and QED International, the company behind such as films as "Fury", starring Brad Pitt, 'Dirty Grandpa" starring Zac Efron and Robert DeNiro and Peter Jackson's "District 9", available on HBOmax and Hulu. She produced such films as Ophelia starring Naomi Watts and Clive Owens, Rock the Kasbah starring Bill Murray, Bruce Willis, Zooey Deschanel and Kate Hudson and The Secret: Dare to Dream starring Katie Holmes and Josh Lucas. She has an MBA from USC and was named one of Variety Magazine's New Leaders in Film. Elissa is based in New York.