The Art of the Pitch
With Emily Best – CEO of Seed&Spark
Saturday, November 3, 4 pm, OAC Gallery
You’ve got an idea for a film, now how do you fund it?
If you convey the specifics about your project in a dynamic, succinct way you will land not only investors, but collaborators, audience members, and more. Emily Best founded Seed&Spark in 2012 after experiencing firsthand the struggles of crowdfunding for filmmakers while making the feature film Like the Water. Seed&Spark quickly expanded to offer comprehensive crowdfunding education. She is now the leading online fundraiser with the highest campaign success rate in the world (80%). Emily has raised millions of dollars in traditional funding, equity crowdfunding, and rewards-based crowdfunding, and contributed to over 300 crowdfunding campaigns to date.
The seminar will focus on:
- How to prepare for a pitch meeting
- How to adapt your pitch to different audiences
- How to follow up for a bright future
- Bonus: includes a hands-on practice session
About Emily Best
Emily Best is the founder and CEO of Seed&Spark, an entertainment platform built to increase diversity and inclusion for filmmakers and audiences. Seed&Spark’s curated streaming is fed by its crowdfunding platform, which has the highest campaign success rate in the world. In 2011, she produced the feature film, Like the Water, starring Caitlin FitzGerald (Masters of Sex, UnREAL). Since then she has served as executive producer on a host of film and virtual reality projects, which have played at festivals from Sundance to SXSW to Tribeca and beyond. She co-created and co-directed the web series F*ck Yes!, which Refinery 29 called, “The sex education you wish you had in high school,” and is currently producing a feature length documentary about the Equal Rights Amendment. Emily was named a 2013 Indiewire Influencer, a 2014 New York Woman of Influence, included on the 2015 Upstart 100 list, and graduated from the 2016 class of Techstars Boston. She has raised millions of dollars in traditional funding, equity crowdfunding, and rewards-based crowdfunding, and contributed to over 300 crowdfunding campaigns to date. Find, follow and have fun with Emily on social media: Twitter: @emilybest; Instagram: @ebestinthewest