First Impressions with Fernanda Rossi
$299.00
First Impressions
How to Create Written and Visual Materials To Fund Your Documentary
By award-winning writer and speaker Fernanda Rossi
Online self-paced course with live video classes and office hours
Course launches June 16 ends July 31st: 6 weeks to go through 6 modules – logline, synopsis, treatment, director’s statement, stylistic approach and pitch deck.
Registration closed on June 30th.
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Learn specific techniques that capture the essence of your doc and the attention of funders, distributors and audiences. Fernanda will provide easy step-by-step procedures to create your materials, including practical exercises and plenty of before/after samples so you don’t need to guess any more how to put your best foot forward.
Modules:
Logline, synopsis, treatment, director’s statement & stylistic approach and pitch deck.
Each Module Will Cover:
For each topic we’ll learn: definition, structure, key elements, many examples and a detailed methodology to go from the empty page to a first draft.
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You Get:
– 5 hours of recorded classes that you can watch at your own pace anytime between June 16 and July 31.
– 2 live-streamed classes, 90 min each, to participate and interact with Fernanda [will be recorded]
– 5 dates of group office hours on Zoom to ask Fernanda all your questions
– all emails answered weekly by Fernanda herself
Course launches June 16 ends July 31st: 6 weeks to go through 6 modules
The live sessions will take place on:
Saturday, July 12 from 12:00 noon – 1:30 pm EDT (module on Treatments)
Friday, July 18 from 2:00 – 3:30 pm EDT (module on Director’s Statement and Artistic Approach)
Both live sessions will be recorded for those who cannot attend live.
The group office hours are not yet scheduled because Fernanda wants to make them as accommodating to those who actually sign up since folks will be across a variety of time zones. She will run a quick survey to see preferred times. There will be one per week except for the week of the U.S. Independence Day holiday (July 4).
What people are saying:
“Great online experience… truly!” Christine L.
“Thank you! Inspiring, helpful and specific!” Megan R.
“This course was an injection of Fernanda’s critical thinking.” Deborah K.
Instructor Bio:
Fernanda Rossi is an award-winning screenwriter/director, and internationally known story producer, film theorist and speaker. She has collaborated on hundreds of fiction and documentary projects, two nominated for the Academy Awards, another for Best Script at the Panda Awards and many received funding from ITVS, LPB, NEH and multiple organizations across Europe.
She has given her signature seminars on storytelling at over 40 film organizations and festivals in 15 countries, including HotDocs and Sheffield Doc/Fest. She has been a regular tutor for laboratories for professional development such as Doc Campus, ESoDoc and NALIP. Her book Trailer Mechanics: How to Make Your Documentary Fundraising Demo, 2nd Edition, is the go-to book on demos, according to industry professionals.