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	<passage mp3="AUDIO_REPOS/2655.mp3" title="How to Pitch a Film"><![CDATA[<div id="passage"><p><strong>Todd:</strong> OK, now Jeff, you've been talking
  about your documentary. Can you talk about
  how do you actually pitch your
  documentary? How do you get it out there so
people can see it on television?</p>
<p><strong>Jeff: </strong>Because like I said before, it's
  independent so we have no one distributing this for us or we
  didn't sell this first before we shot the documentary which is
  usually the regular process so it just requires straight
  salesmanship, going door-to-door, talking to different channels
  and stations and seeing if they're interested, really trying to be
  convincing and making them think that this is something that the
audience really wants. Just door-to-door.</p>
<p><strong>Todd:</strong> OK, so let's say you go into a television studio and you
  have your documentary on hand, what do you say? Like, how do
you get someone to even look at it?</p>
<p><strong>Jeff: </strong>Yeah, that's very difficult. Usually in this world a good saying
  is everything is who you know and without having a foot in the
  door somehow, you're usually rejected, so and the good thing is
  that I do know a few in a few different countries so I can usually
  get a connection somehow who works in a studio or in the
  television station somewhere and they're recommended, we're
  recommended to them by our friend, so usually it's a foot in the
door or someone else.</p>
<p><strong>Todd:</strong> OK, and actually, let's talk about money. Like how did you
  actually pay for this documentary? I mean, did you put it on a
credit cards or what?</p>
<p><strong>Jeff: </strong>Well, doing a documentary is very expensive, very very
  expensive, and luckily there's three of us, three brothers who did
  this so we split the costs and one of the reasons we chose India
  is because it's one of the cheapest places in the world, which
  allowed us a little bit of mobility to stay as long as we did, and film
  as long as we did because everything is so cheap there so. And
  then yeah, we just put it on credit cards. All our savings. Spent all
our savings on this documentary.</p>
<p><strong>Todd:</strong> So for a filmmaker, or documentary personnel, how do you
get your money back?</p>
<p><strong>Jeff: </strong>Getting your money back in not easy. Getting a portion of
  your money back in not easy. If you're lucky, if it's a good
  documentary and it's a good idea and it's something and
  audience wants, then you can sell it. You can manage to sell it,
  but it's a gamble. It's a gamble. It's like anything else. You might
  sell it or you might not sell it, so if you do sell it you get your
money back. If you don't, it's a loss so be prepared for that.</p>
<p><strong>Todd:</strong> Well, I hope you strike it rich.</p></div>]]>
	
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