HOW TO PITCH YOURSELF, THEN YOUR PROJECT WITH COMET PICTURES’ RUSSELL GOLDMAN
Join a Comet Pictures Executive in a casual workshop on how to pitch your work to potential funders and producers. Whether you're looking for advice on further adapting the project you're presenting at Hobnobben, or just want tips for putting your best foot forward in a pitch, come with questions and Russell will hope he has answers!
ABOUT RUSSELL GOLDMAN
Russell Goldman is a writer and filmmaker from Virginia. He is a screenwriter of the upcoming Blumhouse feature Mother Nature, based on his forthcoming graphic novel. His newest short Return to Sender (starring Allison Tolman) was the opening night selection of HollyShorts and has since been invited to 20 film festivals including Fantastic Fest, LA Shorts and Flickers' RIFF. His earlier shorts No Comment and I Make Good Sounds at Parties have played film festivals around the world. He is producing partners with Jamie Lee Curtis for Comet Pictures, which has a first-look deal at Blumhouse.
ABOUT COMET PICTURES
Founded by Jamie Lee Curtis in 2019, Comet Pictures is a film, television and podcast production company with a first-look deal with Blumhouse, where Curtis has produced and starred as Laurie Strode in a Halloween trilogy. Comet's produced work includes three best-selling seasons of an Audible scripted comedy/mystery podcast Letters From Camp, co-created by Curtis and written by Boco Haft; a horror short Return to Sender, starring Allison Tolman and directed by Curtis' producing partner Russell Goldman (a feature adaptation is in development). Comet's projects in the works include: Scarpetta, a series based on Patricia Cornwell's best-selling novels about forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta; Mother Nature, an eco-horror film that Curtis will direct and co-wrote with Goldman, based on the forthcoming graphic novel by Curtis and Goldman and illustrated by Karl Stevens; The Sticky, a half-hour crime comedy series for Amazon Studios based on the true story dubbed the "Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist"; a feature adaptation of the biography "Paradise: One Town’s Struggle To Survive An American Wildfire" by Lizzie Johnson; Outfielder, a biography series about Glenn Burke produced by Ryan Murphy and written and directed by Robert O'Hara.