You've done the affirmations, chanted, and saged your workspace. Now where's the money? Experts share what it takes to get a project out of your dreams and onto the screen. Hear insights from their own successes and challenges. Take notes as they share helpful hints for writing pitch documents, winning grants, landing investors, tapping film funds and leveraging broadcasters. You'll walk away with best practices and proven strategies for funding your dreams from vision to screen.

Moderator: JoAnne Fishburn, Founder/CEO, Good Influence Films
Claire Aguilar, Director of Programming and Policy, International Documentary Association
Lisa Leeman, Filmmaker, Awake: The Life of Yogananda, One Lucky Elephant, Crazy Wisdom
Giancarlo Canavesio, Venture capitalist, Producer and Founder, Mangusta Productions/Mangu.tv

Take twenty minutes to transform your success potential. That's twenty precious minutes of uninterrupted, full focus, one-on-one time with an industry leader. Discuss your project, ask questions, pick their brains on finance, marketing, distribution ... but above all listen. This calibre of advice doesn't manifest out of the ethers every day. Use your twenty wisely to give your project a giant boost.

Take Twenty is ONLY available to Filmmaker, All-Access or Convergence passholders on a first-come, first-served basis. Deadline for sign-ups May 23. Sign up here.

Raise your hand if you love to pitch. Not so much, huh? You've told us this is your tender spot, so we're going to lead you gently but clearly into a better way to conceive, craft, and deliver your pitch. Access your inner pitch notes, eliminate body language sabotage, and learn powerful techniques to calm and center yourself to connect with all your sources of support including financial, producing, and impact partners, distributors, and actors. You'll develop a purposefully aligned and organic approach to mastering one of the most challenging aspects of getting the support you need. Go ahead, bring your awkward pitching self. We're here to help.

John Raatz, Co-founder, Global Alliance for Transformational Entertainment
Valerie Vandermeer, Founder, PostParadigm Consulting & ScalingChange

Can you recoup in 6 months or less? Who are your best partners? Who gets which rights? Should you DIY and what's best left to distributors? Disruption in the industry has caused confusion, but there's also magic in the opportunities that abound. Distribution experts will unpack creative approaches as they case study how some of the newest models were used in last year's conscious film releases HEAL, Walk With Me, and Samsara. They'll reveal the secrets of success for theatrical, non-theatrical, theatrical-on-demand, DVD, digital/VOD, and re-releases. It's essential business wisdom that even seasoned pros need to know to access the real magic ... your audience.

Moderator: Trina Wyatt, CEO, Conscious Good
Adam Schomer, Producer, HEAL
Scott Glosserman, CEO, GATHR Films