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A creative development lab for turning the idea you keep talking about into the project you're actually making.
Have a story you've been carrying around for months? An idea you can't decide if it's a short, a feature, a series, a podcast, a book, an essay, or a live performance? A growing list of "somedays" that keeps getting longer instead of shorter?
Welcome to project purgatory. The good news: you can leave.
In this weekend workshop, Meghan Ross walks you through the actual process of getting an idea out of your head and into the world.
As the former Head of Creator Success at Seed&Spark (the indie crowdfunding platform), she spent four years helping filmmakers turn ideas into funded, finished projects, and she's been a juror, pitch coach, and feedback leader for The Gotham, ATX TV Festival, ScreenCraft, SXSW Episodic Pitch-a-Thon, NFFTY, and the Austin Film Society Shorts Grant. She's read thousands of pitches. She knows what works.
She also knows what it feels like to be on the other side of the table.
Across the weekend, you'll work through:
Creative matchmaking: how to figure out the best medium and platform for your story (and when to let the story tell you what it wants to be)
Strengths inventory: Identifying what you already have, what you're great at, and where you'll need help
Realistic planning: building an actionable schedule for your first project (or your fiftieth)
Resourcing the work: practical strategies for crowdfunding, in-kind support, grant applications, indie investors, and the unglamorous middle ground between them
Dream team building: how to find your crew, your cast, and the collaborators who become long-term creative partners
What comes after: distribution strategy and the career-sustainability lessons most workshops skip
Who it's for: Filmmakers and artists with an idea and the itch to make it but not sure where to start. First-time creators welcome.
A creative development lab for turning the idea you keep talking about into the project you're actually making.
Have a story you've been carrying around for months? An idea you can't decide if it's a short, a feature, a series, a podcast, a book, an essay, or a live performance? A growing list of "somedays" that keeps getting longer instead of shorter?
Welcome to project purgatory. The good news: you can leave.
In this weekend workshop, Meghan Ross walks you through the actual process of getting an idea out of your head and into the world.
As the former Head of Creator Success at Seed&Spark (the indie crowdfunding platform), she spent four years helping filmmakers turn ideas into funded, finished projects, and she's been a juror, pitch coach, and feedback leader for The Gotham, ATX TV Festival, ScreenCraft, SXSW Episodic Pitch-a-Thon, NFFTY, and the Austin Film Society Shorts Grant. She's read thousands of pitches. She knows what works.
She also knows what it feels like to be on the other side of the table.
Across the weekend, you'll work through:
Creative matchmaking: how to figure out the best medium and platform for your story (and when to let the story tell you what it wants to be)
Strengths inventory: Identifying what you already have, what you're great at, and where you'll need help
Realistic planning: building an actionable schedule for your first project (or your fiftieth)
Resourcing the work: practical strategies for crowdfunding, in-kind support, grant applications, indie investors, and the unglamorous middle ground between them
Dream team building: how to find your crew, your cast, and the collaborators who become long-term creative partners
What comes after: distribution strategy and the career-sustainability lessons most workshops skip
Who it's for: Filmmakers and artists with an idea and the itch to make it but not sure where to start. First-time creators welcome.