Pitch your movie idea, improve your skills, impress your friends and our panel, convince them to pick your idea up for further development and in the end watch your movie on a big screen! Lots of ideas, lots of people, lots of fun! Networking drinks afterwards! Don't miss this event!

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Master of Ceremonies:	Ron Thomas	Venue:	Millennium Film Workshop, 66 East 4th Street New York, NY 10003
Date:	TBA	Duration:	Evening
Time:	6:30 - 9pm followed by networking drinks	Price:	$10.00

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This is it!
Your chance to pitch your movie idea directly to a panel of top film executives. These are the people who matter. They are the people who buy scripts - they are the people who decide what will be made and what won't.

Your chance to pitch your movie idea to the people who can get it in cinemas in this intense emotionally charged event.

To pitch, drop a fiver in the hat and the floor is yours for up to two minutes. The panel can gong you off if you are boring, but they have to give you two good reasons why.

This event is not for the faint hearted, or for those who cant handle the truth.

Live!Ammunition! Results

18 pitchers competed for best pitch. And the winners were:

1st place SUMO SUMMER SCHOOL by Jonathan Jacobson.
2nd was UP UP AND OLE by Dan Weiner
3rd was Jay Rappaport with his film 'Wall St. meets Forrest Gump'

We would like to thank our great panel and congratulate all our brave pitchers.
See you soon for other Raindance events.

Next Raindance Live!Ammunition!:
Friday 14 May - Cannes Film Festival
Monday 21 June - London

Panelists - Wednesday April 21

John Hadity - CEO Hadity and Associates

John Hadity is an independent producer and financier with over 20 years of studio experience.  Most recently he served as the Executive Vice President of Motion Picture & Television Production Finance for Miramax Films.  During his 12 year tenure with the company he was responsible for a portfolio of production budgets valued in excess of $4 Billion.  Mr. Hadity oversaw the strategic planning, risk management, labor relations, business affairs, tax, government relations and financial reporting for over 250 production entities, as well as managed all of the parent company’s structured finance and off balance sheet transactions.  In addition to his corporate responsibilities at the company, Mr. Hadity also served as production rep on several Miramax releases including Academy Award winners SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE, THE ENGLISH PATIENT, EMMA and RESTORATION.

Mr. Hadity began his film career at Orion Classics, a division of Orion Pictures Corp., where he served as technical and administrative director on art and specialty film acquisitions including Gabriel Axel’s Oscar winning BABETTE’S FEAST, Akira Kurosawa’s RAN, Jean-Paul Rappeneau’s CYRANO DE BERGERAC, Pedro Almodovar’s WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN, Bruno Nuytten’s CAMILLE CLAUDEL, Richard Linklater’s SLACKERS, Claude Berri’s JEAN DE FLORETTE and MANON OF THE SPRING, Wim Wenders’ WINGS OF DESIRE, several films by Eric Rohmer, and the re-release of Louis Malle’s MURMUR OF THE HEART.

Mr. Hadity departed Orion during its financial restructuring to join indy producer Donna Gigliotti at Universal Pictures where he managed Ms. Gigliotti’s independent production company, Tempesta Films.  Projects originally developed and packaged under the Tempesta banner include the film adaptation of Walter Mosley’s acclaimed novel DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS and first time director Dan Algrant’s NAKED IN NEW YORK executive produced by Martin Scorsese.

Immediately prior to joining Miramax in 1993, Mr. Hadity was with The Kennedy/Marshall Company, the independent production concern of former Amblin Entertainment producers Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall.

Mr. Hadity is the Chair of the Producers Guild of America East, has served on the MPAA’s Worldwide Production and International Tax Committees, and is a frequent guest lecturer at Yale University, Harvard Business School, Columbia Business School, and New York University’s Stern School of Business.  His board service includes IFP (Program Advisory Board), Gedi Systems, Inc. (Director), Hamilton College (Alumni Council), and is Co-Chair of the Board of Directors of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD).

Jeff Deutchman - Acquisitions Manager IFC Entertainment

As Acquisitions Manager for IFC Entertainment, Jeff Deutchman is responsible for identifying and pursuing finished feature films that support the company’s overall motion picture acquisition strategy.  In this role, Mr. Deutchman has discovered and acquired the U.S. rights to dozens of films, including some of the most critically-acclaimed breakthroughs by young American independent filmmakers (Don Argott’s The Art of the Steal, Josh & Benny Safdie’s Daddy Longlegs, Barry Jenkins’ Medicine for Melancholy, Antonio Campos’s Afterschool), as well as young international auteurs (Corneliu Porumboiu’s Police, Adjective, Lee Chang-dong’s Secret Sunshine, Hong Sang-soo’s Night and Day, Matthew Newton’s Three Blind Mice, Pieter van Hees’s Left Bank), and some of the best in recent international genre cinema (Tom Six’s The Human Centipede, Kim Ji-woon’s The Good, the Bad, the Weird, Tommy Wirkola’s Dead Snow, Bruce McDonald’s Pontypool).

IFC Entertainment distributes these films via its pioneering day and date film distribution model, making independent films available to a national audience by releasing them in theaters and simultaneously on cable's On Demand platform, or through IFC Festival Direct, which brings films straight to the On Demand platform as premieres.  In August 2009, Sundance Selects premiered in the On Demand space as a new branded distribution platform dedicated to hosting independent documentaries and world cinema selections.  Mr. Deutchman has been implemental to these developments over the time he has been with the company.

Mr. Deutchman joined IFC Entertainment’s acquisitions department after having been previously in their marketing department where he worked on the theatrical marketing campaigns for such films as Wordplay, Factotum, Sherrybaby and My Best Friend.  Prior to IFC Entertainment, Mr. Deutchman worked in the distribution department at IDP Distribution/Samuel Goldwyn Films.

Mr. Deutchman also recently directed a feature documentary, 11/4/08 – a vérité collage of footage shot all over the world on the day Barack Obama was elected President.  The film had its world premiere at the 2010 SXSW Film Festival.

Roman Sierra - Film Distribution Consultant

Roman spent 8 years working as a TV producer where he launched a daily ‘live’ newscast broadcasted in 16 countries of Latin America.

Since Roman became a TV producer in 2001 he attended countless movie press screenings, film festivals, and panels writing reviews for his personal website. The most common question he has heard ever since is the same: I have completed my film, now what?

Lora Fox Producer , Founder, East End Production Services, Suffolk County Film Commissioner

Lora Fox has worked in film and television for more than twenty years.  After graduating from Stanford in 1984, she worked with veteran producer Freddie Fields in script development at MGM.  She moved to the Samuel Goldwyn Company in 1986, where she acquired films for distribution.  In 1991, she was named Executive Director of the International Documentary Association.  In 1992, she produced and starred in The View from the Cage a documentary for Discovery Channel’s Shark Week.  This led to three years of participating in underwater films both in front of and behind the camera:  Great Whites of California, Jaws in the Med, and the dive series, Dive Aruba which she co-hosted with Christopher Reeve.  In 1993, Lora Fox became the Director of International Co-productions for Oregon Public Broadcasting, and was part of the Executive Producing/Writing team for PBS on the Eyewitness video/television series, a co-production with the BBC Natural History Unit and Dorling-Kindersley Publishers. In 1995, she became Managing Director of Pinnacle Pictures, an international film and television distribution company based in London where she financed and produced independent feature films for international sales. In 1998, she helped launch the British Independent Film Awards, where she served as a founding board member and juror.  In 2000, she co-produced the British independent feature, Another Life, starring Tom Wilkinson, Ioan Gruffud and Imelda Staunton.  Through her company East End Production Services, she has worked as an independent producer and finance consultant on The Song is You From Watermill, The Katie Brown Workshop, The Ten and Fanny and Elvis.

Over the years, Lora Fox has worked on numerous feature films and television properties, including: Poltergeist II, Hoosiers, Dance with a Stranger, Mystic Pizza, Spanish Fly, Prague Duet, Another Life, A View From the Cage, Jaws in the Med, and the Eyewitness television/video series.

Lora Fox has served her community as a commissioner on the Suffolk County Film Commission since 2004.

* Ewan MacGregor, actor
* Robert Jones (UK Film Council)
* Charles Steel, producer (Last King of Scotland)
* Menhaj Huda, director (Kidulthood)
* Elisar Cabrera, international film sales agent (High Point Films)
* Jim Wilson, producer (Shaun of the Dead)
* Matthew Dench, talent agent, (Dench Arnold)
* Dean Goldberg (Park Caledonia)
* Michael Cowan (Spice Factory)
* Richard Elfman, Producer, Director, Actor, Writer
* Jeremy Wooding (Bollywood Queen)
* Penny Woolcock (The Principles of Lust)
* Sarah Gavron (This Little Life)
* Norma Heyman, producer
* Richard Holmes, producer (Gruber Films)
* Brock Norman Brock (The Film Council)
* Roger Corman, Producer
* Lloyd Kaufman, Producer, Actor, Director, Writer
* Shane Meadows Director/Writer (28 Days Later, This Is England)
* Nik Powell (Scala Films)
* Seamus McGarvey-Award winning cinematographer of The Hours
* Anna Thomas - Producer of Oscar nominated 'El Norte' and 'Frida'
* Matthew Vaughan- Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch
* Coline Woodcock (Kuhn and Co)
* Ed King, Development (Rocket Pictures)
* Steve Gaydos Editor, (Variety)
* Antonia Bird - Director, (Ravenous, Face, Mad Love, Priest)
* Tracey Scoffield-Head of Development and Exec Producer BBC Films
* Morwenna Banks - Writer/Actress, (The Announcement)
* Leslee Udwin - Producer, (East is East, The One and Only)
* Nahrein Mirza - Head of Development, (Littlebird Pictures) 

 

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