156 | SPECIAL: The Elevator Pitch + Austin Film Festival Prep Workshop

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

Meg LeFauve & Lorien McKenna

Tv & Film

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2023

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

The Austin Film Festival is many things, but one if its most infamous opportunities is the annual 90-second pitch competition, where writers join to do just that: pitch their story in JUST 90 seconds. In the industry, we call this "the elevator pitch" and its more important now than ever. To help us unpack the nature of elevator pitching, we're featuring an amazing roster of guests: TSL veteran and super producer Sheila Hanahan Taylor, Austin Film Festival Screenplay Department Director Alyssa Alvarado, and the five brave souls who are joining to pitch them! TO BUY YOUR AFF PASS: https://austinfilmfestival.com/product/film-pass-2/ TO PURHASE FINAL DRAFT: https://www.finaldraft.com/ TO JOIN OUR PATREON: https://patreon.com/thescreenwritinglife

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, welcome back to the screenwriting life. I'm Meg Lafour.
0:07.0	And I'm Lorrya McKenna, and today we have a really cool episode.
0:11.0	As many of you know, TSL has been attending the Austin Film Festival for the past two years and one of the big
0:16.2	AFA events each year is their 90 second pitch competition which is judged by a lot of industry pros including Meg Lafove.
0:24.5	That's right.
0:26.5	Because so many of you will be attending AFF we wanted to devote an episode to helping you hone your
0:30.8	pitch, but even if you aren't going to the festival
0:33.6	everyone needs to be able to do a quick pitch of their story or what some people
0:37.5	in the business call the elevator pitch will be welcoming five pitchers to bring
0:42.2	their ideas on air today, Andrew, Sophie,
0:44.7	potty, Jess, and Boris. So whenever we talk about pitching on this show,
0:49.0	we almost always talk about producer and friend of the show Sheila Hanahan Taylor who will be
0:54.1	joining us today making this her third appearance on TSL and as most of you
0:59.7	already know Sheila but she is a producer of many movies including the final destination franchise.
1:05.8	So hi Sheila and welcome.
1:07.6	Hi team screenwriting life.
1:09.6	Love this.
1:10.2	I'm very excited to hear and thank you so much.
1:13.0	And joining Sheila is AFF screenplay department director
1:17.2	Alyssa Elverado, who will be able to fill us in on how Sheila's insights
1:21.9	specifically operate within the framework of
1:23.9	AFF's pitch competition. So hi, Alyssa. Hi, it's really nice to you know be here and
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