When pitchfest turns to bitchfest...
Yesterday, I attended the "Inktip Pitch & Networking Summit" in Burbank, CA. www.inktippitchsummit.com I brought five scripts along with me. Onesheeted and index carded my way through six hours of the madness. All in all, it was great experience. I would recommend this event highly to anyone interested in taking a stab at pitching their scripts to producers, managers and agents. At the very least, you'll get an idea of what people are interested in and what they're not. I would say that out of the forty-plus people, I sat in front of, I got several read requests, an assignment, and many, many "follow up with me's". Only six of them gave me "crickets" or a weird vibe until my very last pitch... Yeah... Things were going great until I sat at the table of negativity. Wow. They could've just said, "pass", but instead, I got to hear their version of the history of production. Yes, please talk down to me as if this was my firs