ABOUT "PITCHING"

Many things has been written about how to make a good "Pitch", a brief to-the-point presentation of your screenplay to a producer in the hope to get a sale.
This French TV commercial I think summarizes all:
Go to http://veryfunnyads.com/, in Browse Brands look for Canal Plus. The TV ad name is "Brokeback Mountain"
Enjoy and learn.

BALANCE

So, December has come, another year is saying by-bye, and however many days and weeks are still to come before changing that Natural Conservancy2007 calendar I think is time to make a sort of balance of the year.

It was a good one, indeed.

After some year polishing my written English, doing a lo of research ( I think that in 4 years I have read over 90 books, without counting articles in magazines and others) I sent my first fully in English screenplay to take a dive and watch if it could swim in the local market.

Getting that so-so screenplay between the quarter finals and top ten finals of good contests was a good surprise and, I think, an announcement that the best is yet to come.

I started to write in a Spanish speaking forum for screenwriters and the comment from one of the main participants was “Hey, thanks to be here, you have elevated the level of the forum.” My only intention was to share, give input to new screenwriters, so those words were most welcome, and unexpected. Thanks.

I went to a local screenplayers convention and Film Festival. Nice experience, in particular to discover that I can make it there without problems. It made me remember my days in the Peruvian TV, Theater and Films “High life”. I renounced to that as I thought it was not only boring but an alley, not taking you to anything better. But, confronted with the new one, some could call it "the real one", I thought “I can make it here, no problem.”

Then, at the beginning of September, came the best shared achievement of my life (and more to come). Nani, my muse, the woman that I deeply love, admire and respect, my wife, is expecting a baby.

You know? I’m not nervous, I have so much love in me that I had been depositing in Nani that the future arrival of a baby is like saying to that new life in its way to this world growing in Nani's belly “hey, finally, I love you so much since so many years ago.”

It’s now a time of changes, in many aspects, but many beliefs had not has not changed: I will write, I’ll succeed, and I’ll keep loving.

It’s such a fact for me.

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