Real Strategies, Real Results: Live with the Nonfiction Hotlist
Most filmmakers pitch the same channels and wonder why funding isn't flowing. Keith joins The Nonfiction Hotlist to reveal the nontraditional strategies that ACTUALLY work.
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Most filmmakers pitch the same channels and wonder why funding isn't flowing. Keith joins The Nonfiction Hotlist to reveal the nontraditional strategies that ACTUALLY work.
Save a seatSave a seatWatch the RecordingReal Strategies, Real Results: Live with the Nonfiction Hotlist
Most filmmakers pitch the same channels and wonder why funding isn't flowing. Keith joins The Nonfiction Hotlist to reveal the nontraditional strategies that ACTUALLY work.
Keith joins the Nonfiction Hotlist to reveal the non-traditional approaches that are core to our Show&Tell Method, and puts them to work with a real filmmaker case study.
In this replay, Keith maps out the best opportunities for funding, partnership, and audience development on the spot for Renée Muza and her film, Walk With Me —identifying their most promising funders, aligned philanthropies, and strategic partners.
Whether you're in production or heading into distribution, you'll leave with a simple roadmap you can adapt for your own film.
** The 6 minute clip from Walk With Me was only shown live and is not included in this recording **
About Your Instructor
About Your Instructors
Keith Ochwat
Keith is a filmmaker and Founder of Show&Tell. Over his 12 year career as a documentary filmmaker, Keith produced three films that appeared on PBS and Netflix.
His film Age of Champions screened in over 3,000 communities and generated over $1.5 million—powered by partnerships with groups like AARP and the Alzheimer’s Association and companies like Cigna Health.
Since starting Show&Tell, Keith has taught and advised hundreds of filmmakers on their distribution and fundraising strategies helping his community of filmmakers raise over $25 million and counting in PBS sponsorships, partnerships, educational licensing and more.
He's delivered keynote presentations on distribution at filmmaking organizations like IDA and IFP and his work has appeared in IndieWire and Documentary Magazine.
Nonfiction Hotlist
The Nonfiction Hotlist is a curated slate of exceptional unproduced projects on the journey to get made regardless of the market. The mission is simple: champion the most compelling unproduced nonfiction projects and through our collective networks, manifest momentum to help more great projects find their way into the world.
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