Pitch Current TV
Pitch Current TV at DFG Newcomers Day at Sheffield Doc/Fest 2009!
Current TV offered producers the first chance to pitch for the channel’s new, half-hour investigative journalism slots at Sheffield Doc/Fest 2009. The pitch took place as part of at DFG Newcomers Day - the 6 finalists pitched to Current staff and industry professionals
The selected projects
Sam Lockyer
Daniel and Jesse Quinones
Saeed Taji Farouky
Orlando von Einsiedel
Glen Milner
Mathew Charles
The winners were Daniel and Jesse Quinones
For more information on why they were selected check the Current site
The successful pitchers were awarded £5000 to make their film for Current TV to air in 2010.
What are Current looking for?
We’re looking for talented new correspondents and producers to pitch us ideas for UK-based, investigative current affairs films at Current’s Sheffield Pitch 2009.
We want reporters, producers or teams of both to pitch us stories, themes and issues that they strongly feel need to be investigated and are of interest to Current TV’s audience of twenty- and thirty-somethings.
The slot is half an hour long, has a budget of £5000 and can be presenter-led but does not have to be. We want you to show us – not tell us - what’s really happening in Britain today and where events are headed. Above all this is adventurous journalism- exploring issues and themes with a guerrilla-style approach, getting the facts on the ground and meeting the characters at the heart of the story.
From race relations and the economic crisis to environmental issues and conflicted communities, the stories and issues we want you to pitch can be hugely varied but will all share the same philosophy of honest reporting with journalistic rigour at the core.
These are things to consider:
- - Why does this issue need to be investigated?
- - Who is your on- and off-screen talent and why?
- - How do you plan to tell your story? Who are your characters? What is your access?
- - What problems are you likely to face and how will you overcome them (including risk assessment)?
- - If other documentaries have been made on this subject, how is yours different?
To see examples of the type of thing we’re looking for, take a look at our Vanguard team approaching domestic stories in the US:
Getting Out of Prison
Maxed Out
Generation Gap
Obama's Army
Getting Waterboarded