Written By Katrina Medoff—Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director, Moonshot InitiativeCongratulations—you’ve written a screenplay, and you’re ready to apply to screenwriting competitions or pitch your idea to development execs!Or, at least, you think you’re ready.Before you submit your fellowship application or log on for that pitch meeting, you need to be able to answer these two questions:Why are you the person to tackle this project?Why is now the best time to tell this story?Here’s how to prepare your answers to these questions—and why they’re so critical to your contest submission or pitch. Pitch Fox Why are you the person to tackle this project?Your personal connection to a project helps grab the interest of readers and development executives. Everyone wants to know the backstory of what sparked the idea. Is the series about a topic that you really nerd out about? Is it based on something that happened to you or a family member in real life? Do you have some specialized knowledge that gives you a window into this topic that few people have?Often, your connection to the project will serve as your ramp into the pitch during a pitch meeting. There are a lot of ways this could play out in practice, but here’s an example from writer Danielle Nicki, one of the fellows for the Moonshot Pilot Accelerator, who was pitching her YA horror pilot. As she chatted with development execs at the beginning of a meeting, she would ask if they had teens in their home, and share that...
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