Pitch & Planning Session
People make films, not equipment. The idea of this event is very simple. Put people who have an idea for a movie and people who want to work on movies in the same room. Let the people with an idea pitch their idea to the room and then let them all meet up and discuss and plan. Like many simple ideas, it is a very powerful one. Without this physical place to meet it’s a lot harder to get a start for people without experience or connections. There are many film networking events going on all the time in Berlin, but this event is focused on helping people get films made. We meet once a month and welcome all levels. Come on down and either pitch your idea or listen to others pitch theirs.
LOOKING FOR HELP
Do you have an idea for a film that you want to make? Do you need help working on the script, planning, shooting, or editing of your idea? This event gives you the chance to pitch your idea and what you need to a room full of people eager to help. You can ask for help at any stage of the filmmaking process. We make sure that this isn’t a pressure filled environment and this event is open to first time filmmakers. We pride ourselves on being a welcoming community that invites people to grow and learn. We know how hard it is to figure out how to make your ideas a reality, especially as a beginner, this is the event we wished we had when we just starting out.
WANTING TO HELP
Are you excited simply at the thought of working on a film? Maybe you work on film projects that aren’t fulfilling and need to do something more creative. Or you are a student who just graduated and are looking to start applying what you’ve learned. Perhaps you have always wanted to work in film, but didn’t know how to get a start? This event is tailored not only to the people with ideas, but also to those people wanting to express themselves by working on set. This event brings in people from complete beginners to people with years of specialized film experience. The thing that brings them all together is a love of the process and a passion for film.
Pitch & Planning Session
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Time: 19:30
Location:
Space Meduza Bar
Skalitzerstr. 80, 10997 Berlin
Berlin Film Community
We meet at Space Meduza bar – 80 Skalitzerstr., 10997 Berlin
Notes from the last Pitch & Planning Sessions
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Notes from Pitch & Planning #37 - April 12, 2023
insta: @studioukraine
Notes from Pitch & Planning #36 - February 01, 2023
Peta@jenkinfilm.com
Pitch 1 of 2
Invisible
A guy gets kicked our off his WG. He signs up to work at a coworking space and live there to have a home. Has a gym and a shower as well. A commentary on the temporary way of clocking in and out of space. Also a love story that has a bit if a territorial natute. The banality of coworking spaces, the glamorized by some nature of being unhoused.
Patch of paradise
Comedy about Dachas (those areas with gardens and tiny houses) A dark comedy how each patch of grass is someone’s idenity. People blame each other based on their dachas features for the murder of one of their own. There is also jealousy and sexual tension. In the style of White Lotus.
Garden gnomes are featured
Sofie B. Løvereide
Short film
Beth has a lot of struggles. She is walking her bike to the bike shop. She had a sexual encounter the other night where she changed her mind while she was in the middle if the act, but didn’t tell her partner. She is talking about how it feels afterwards with her friends. About why didn’t she say anything.
1 day shoot – mid to late Feb.
Looking for:
Camera
Sound
Editor
Music
Hubert Wolanski
Action/Drama/Martial Arts teaser or short film to lead to a feature.
Hero’s journey. Bad guy saves the hero at the end. Corrupted town hall, a girlfriend, and a gang. No wire work, all practical. Visuals are very important. Three factions interacting with each other.
Looking for:
Producers
Co-writing
Director
Later on:
All production roles
Danny Goodman
At the end of 2000’s a young man moves to Berlin and loses his grip on normal life after getting dumped by his girlfriend. Danny Boyle style, ala Trainspotting. Character study. Berlin drug and party life drags him down. He is haunted and tries to suppress his emotions.
Protagonist and two best friends
Looking for:
Producers
Collaborative writer
Rachel Schoeppenthau
Swedish band Tonbruket was the inspiration.
Musicians will write the score and writers will work on the story simultaneously. The music and script both need to be finished before the shoot will take place. Musicians and writers will send Information back and forth.
Looking for:
Screenwriter to help with the ideas
Musicians
Sooraj Pv
Pitch 1 of 2
Story of a son who dreams of his father as a German soldier from WWII and how his father deals with his the PTSD even still. In the dream a French and a German soldier are in combat and the French solider gets killed. Son wakes up from his dream of what his father went through. He goes into the corner of the room and is extremely emotional. His wife gets up and takes care of him. Situation traumatizes the kids of the German parents. And it broke up his parent’s relationship.
Looking for:
All production roles
Pitch 2 of 2
Sci-fi short film
Enthusiastic paleontologist travels back in time to learn about a goddess who disappeared from an old civilization. She gets stuck in the past and befriends and helps the cave men who worshipped this goddess. She then closes the loop becoming their goddess and only realizing when she gets rescued and returned to her present.
Looking for:
All Production help.
Anya
IG: anjarueegg_
Mail: anja.rueegg@bluewin.ch
Five in the light
Has absolutely no idea what the movie is about and no script. Her and her friends made up a title and told people at a few film festivals that they were working on this mysterious project, which got them some word of mouth promotion. . Now they want to make it real and have something to take to next years film festivals.
Maristela Ávila
Short Film
Approx 40 min
How you learn to love yourself. A self-love story. Finding the love in your veins. All Human beings are the same.
A woman has no physical contact. All things are done to limit human interaction.
Shooting from the 28th of Feb.
Also have a Filmmaker group called Filmmakers and Movie Nerds which meets on Sundays.
Actor 40’s or older
Actor 30’s
All genders are ok
Assistant Director
ZoeManta@gmail.com
Has shot a lot of material. Outdoor shoots in a documentary style and inside one that are much more pornographic in nature. The two are linked but it’s not yet exactly clear.
Looking for:
Editor to help make sense of it.
Deepak.haridas6@gmail.com
Pitch 1 of 2
Frozen
2-3 minutes. One take film. A man is Frozen in place in the forest. Deepak didn’t want to give away the story.
shooting is Feb 18th in Moabit.
Looking for:
The Assassins Creed (title is a WIP)
A man hires a Hitman to kill him as he is too chicken to kill himself.
Shooting in Mullberg.
Looking for:
Male Protagonist
Goons
Actress to play the assassin
Notes from Pitch & Planning #32 - October 12, 2022
Alex
Adaptation of Beauty and the Beast. Similar to the original novel and not at all like the
Disney version. A body horror movie. Beast is a big machine made of brass and with clockwork parts.
Involves dance and poetry. Dialogue written in prose.
Has a NYC Production house interested who is seeking funding.
Looking for:
Producer for grant search in Germany.
Anthony Mackliff
mackartsproject@gmail.com
Short film about a Spanish family in Berlin who has many connections to their South American family.
Dinner scene that shows the dynamics of the Latino family. Mother of the main character dies. Film is about grief and how people react. Dealing with their dysfunctional family and the burial of his mother and a father who isn’t able to help out.
He is suppressing his feelings and eventually is able to release when he sees a mother in the park with a kid.
Looking for:
Spanish speaking actors – from Spain if possible. 60-65 years
or so.
Also looking to create a community of filmmakers
Actors of all languages, scriptwriter, DoP, sound, all positions.
Short music documentary. Already has a group of Ukrainian filmmakers. 5 minute video with musical elements of ethno based folk singing group. A thank you video to the German public. Goal is to have a dialogue between the newly arrived Ukrainian people and the German people to show Ukrainian culture and to show that we are all together.
Ukrainian folk group Divina. Them singing and telling their story’s in classical Berlin landmarks.
Filming in end of November
Looking for:
Budget of €7-8€K
Looking for help finding funding
Has most of the crew
Official support from a Verein, perhaps Vitsche.
https://www.facebook.com/newevil
But he is not dead, the girl is dead. He finds that he needs to be more empathetic. Finds the girls mother and confronts his own problems.
Second shoot is starting in early Nov. About Metaverse. What if we are not real, we are just an avatar. We are manipulated by social media. Get back our love for ourselves. Filters are giving back our live for ourselves. Lost the love we have for our own lives, our own personalities.
Our power is within us. We need a lot of empathy for all citizens of the world, regardless of country. Most important is the love for ourselves.
Looking for:
Actors for the new roles in English – open to all ages.
Sebastian
jimenezruizsebastian24@gmail.com
Movie about a young visual artist who falls in love with a woman he can only see through a super 8 camera. He follows her and then starts forming a relationship. Each interaction is only 3 min. long as that is the run time of a cartridge.
10-12 minutes
€500 budget – help
Guy and a girl who are English speaking
Metawold – Metamorphosis of a Wereworld
Shortest date ever. To be made for fun and YouTube. True life incident that happened to him. Will attempt 5 minute, single take short film. Two people meet through a dating app. Things go very awkwardly and end badly and quickly.
Early November shoot.
Looking for:
Male lead. Beer belly
2 of 2
Locked up
A depressed Ukrainian meets her alter ego who turns out to be her deceased mother. Traumatic event.
Looking for:
Mom around 35 year old
Psychologist – Female
Danting Chen
The necessity of it
Will be shot in Crete late April May.
Drama set in 80’s Greece. A painter grieves for her late daughter on an island when the absent father comes to visit, unaware of their daughter’s death.
20 minute film
Has a company in Athens, but looking for German funding.
6 day shoot. Shooting on Alexa Mini.
Looking for:
Producer to seek funding. To get free flights for the crew. Speaks German, English.
Social Media Manager
PA
Unpaid, but all fees covered.
https://www.facebook.com/linn.nilsson.395454
Documentary project about healings trauma through art. Will be self reflective story. Will also be about the justice system and a criticism of the system of law around sexual violence. Will also have elements of people in motion. Dancing, martial arts, etc. Wants different cultural backgrounds to be represented. Working against the stigma of mental health problems and the silence and guilt around sexual violence. Focus on healing and awareness.
30 minutes film or longer
Looking for:
Other interview subjects who are also survivors of sexual violence
Therapists
Activists
All Crew:
Sound
Camera
Lighting
Notes from Pitch & Planning #31 - June 8, 2022
Jonathan Sebunya
https://www.instagram.com/jonathan_sebunya/
Will be creating 4 different short films based on 4 songs he has written and recorded.
Lyrics from the song for context: “Will it be like when we first met? Will I run away in the end? Will you run away in the end?”
Looking For:
2 actors
Krasi Paskalev
Beginning April he shot a 20 min short film about three scientists from NASA who receive a transmission from an astronaut on the moon. Through their negligence they decide not to help him. Their boss comes in and yells at them. Has Seinfeld vibes.
Looking For:
Someone to create the VFX space ship that comes back down to Earth
Approximately 5 seconds of footage
Small budget
Middle August
90 minute feature film called Joyride about a Berlin couple Irina a 39 year old Ukrainian married to Paul, a German who teaches at a nursery school/ Together they have a 4 year old boy.
Viktor a Theater Director in Ukraine calls Irina to try to leave the country and not join the military. Paul refuses saying it is not his business.
Sofia who has escaped the war and is a friend of Irina wants to go back to Ukraine from Berlin. They decide to take her and bring back Viktor.
Road movie about German fear. Paul is fearful and a pacifist. Their 89 Volvo breaks down. They have plenty of time to discuss sex, relationships, war, and other topics.
They have to cross the border at a non-sanctioned place and after arguing, go to pick up Viktor from a datscha. They learn that he is being held by a lone Russian soldier who wants to defect to Germany. They have a tense exchange with the soldier.
During this Irina reveals to Paul that Viktor is actually the father of what he though was his child and this is the reason she wants to bring him to Germany. Irina gets shot and needs to get to a hospital and pacifist Paul needs to take action. They return to Berlin after things have massively changed.
10-15 days
DP and cast are already on board
Looking for:
All other positions
Script will be in a mix of German, English, and Ukrainian
Catherine Schulze
Short film
3-5 minute long short comedy
Has vibes from The Office And Ricky Gervais in general
A guy who goes to an audition and has to deal with an obnoxious and difficult director. The director leaves the room and someone within the room asks him if he thinks the director is a piece of shit. He answers yes and only after doing so realized that the camera is still rolling.
Looking for:
2 actors – 1 straight person and one comedian
Awkward situational comedy, breaking the fourth wall
DP
Lighting
Sound
Anyone willing to be a part of the crew
One day shoot. As soon as possible. Wry, fun shoot.
Tilting films
Notes from Pitch & Planning #30 - May 11, 2022
Ansaja363@gmail.com
Pitch # 1 of 2
The Lifeguard
Teen Thriller
Book series being adapted into a movie
A girl who comes to a holiday island to meet her boyfriend. There are a series of killings. You hear the murder’s and the victim both of whom present an omniscient narrator perspective which may be unreliable. It is a lot of chaos.
Looking for:
Beach setting
Beach tourists
Real lifeguard to discuss the role
People to develop the dialogue
Pitch #2 of 2
Title: I Like NY in June
Judy Galrland movie
Two characters walking through streets after college, doing interviews, getting photos taken for headshots.
Getting a dialogue going explaining what they are going through.
A person with a disability goes through this same events and how their perspective is different.
Based on Shakespear’s Julius Ceaser
Looking for:
Someone to help with script
Yves Guillaume
y.guillaume@web.de
Coming of age series in a mixed martial arts world.
A boy and a girl come from toxic families
An older MMA fighter becomes a father figure and they form a family like environment. Theme is the family you choose versus the family you are born into. Likely dialogue will be in German.
Looking for:
A writing partner
Producer
MMA knowledgeable people
Linda Paganelli
A documentary project with the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.
Multimedia project looking for people who have had issues with gentrification.
Carmina Orozco
Carmina.orlo@gmail.com
Insta: @carminaorlo
Masters project
Documentary project. Personal story about relationship with brother. Her brother was admitted to a psychiatric ward. She boards a plane to Hungary and this changes her relationship to more of a mother figure. Story told through pictures from them as they were young as well as using actors to recreate the scenes.
To be shot in June and July
Looking for:
Producer
Editor (Spanish would be helpful)
Pitch #2 of 2
Teaser about hair loss and how it impacts men.
Documentary. Filming in the next two weeks.
Looking for:
People willing to talk about their experiences loosing their hair.
D Robert Errey
Short documentary film which will start out educating then switch to the hypothetical and fantastical future. Teaches about dementia. Then shifts to cryogenics and imagines what would happen if someone gets taken into the future. What about someone who suffers from dementia? Also, the idea of dementia being someone who has one foot in another dimension. How would this tie them to the after life? Maybe they are on their way into another dimension? Also how DMT relates to this transitional space between life and death.
Had worked as a social worker and has experience with these issues.
Looking for:
Script advisor to help organize their ideas
Preferably someone with mental health knowledge.
Editor
Visual effects (think Enter the void)
Distribution
Tariq Omer
True lies (WIP title)
A young man is raised religious and told not to lie. A man is having trouble finding his true love and works on himself while trying to also find love. He learns that when you lie to yourself sometimes the lie can become reality. A woman lies to him when approached saying she has a boyfriend. All the past of what he said in terms of lies starts to become true.
Has beginning of the story
Looking for:
Someone to help with script writing
Notes from Pitch & Planning #29 - Apr. 13, 2022
Laura Girvent Alcalde
Short film – Poetic
About 10 minutes
Shooting in about a month
A prostitute and her life and how she interacts with her clients using tango dancing. Two women. The other sees the proustite very often. She will try to help the prostitute from her circumstances. Switch to abstract dancing with clients. About sex workers who find themselves in very dangerous circumstances.
Looking For:
Producer
Editor
Funding
Sasha Zivkovic
From the fine art world
Feature Film – making a 15 minute pilot to make a bigger film.
Experimental film. Robinson Crusoe in an office. A strange character who follows their own procedures. No dialogue you get caught up in their R&D which ends up looking like artwork. Someone who can’t understand in their isolation. Based in a glass space with wide shots.
Intercut with image sequences. A frame, some rope. He is on an island in a river. This is his personal spot. The island is his terminal phase. He is conducting a funeral, but open ended as to the representation and direction at the end.
May use voice over.
Style of Roy Anderson
Looking for:
Producer/Organizer
Sound board
Camera crew
Actor – theatrical person who acts well with their body.
Producer/Distributer
Asking for projects to produce. Looking for short film scripts, ideas, pitches to help produce your short film. Ready to make a short this year and a feature next year.
If you already have a short or feature send him a screener and he will see if he can get you sales/distribution.
He is also a part of AlefCine Pictures which has a Post production studio and can handle Editing/Coloring/Mastering/DCP creation.
Anastasiia Malysheva – Ukrainian Locations/Costume/Production Designer new to Berlin looking for work.
+380963713041 (WhatsApp)
Has website/portfolio
Looking for work. Wanting to finish her studies.
Notes from Pitch & Planning #28 - Mar. 09, 2022
Jean-Michel Brawand
Film Title – Vietnam
2 criminals, a Croatian and a Romanian who don’t know each other have to dig up the body of a young woman and take it to somewhere in Berlin so it can be inspected by a criminal. They then have to dispose of the body. They form a brotherly bond through this act.
Feature film, 2nd one he has directed
5-6 locations
Bulk of shooting take place next week through May.
Deals with history. Meant to invoke the way humans in the 20th century relate to history and don’t know how to deal with collective trauma.
Looking for:
Soundperson
Producer
Ruediger.johne@facebook.com
A journey of a girl with telekinetic abilities who must flee her home world to find her love who is more like an uncle/teacher. She needs to rescue him from another dimension. In order to do so she needs to convert to a non-material form in order to cross dimensions.
Sci-fi tragic comedy
Looking for:
1 archiver
Abbas Mohammed Aub
Short – around 15 minutes
Shooting next week 18/3/22
Shooting next weeks. Afghan artistic woman who comes to Germany and tries to find her way. 20 year old woman, who’s life revolves around her brother and her uncle. She has an unexpected opportunity presents itself. She is a Tiktoker, artist and her family is trying to stop her from pursuing this path.
Looking for:
DoP
Persian actress
Notes from Pitch & Planning #27 - Feb. 02, 2022
Stefanie founded AlefCine Pictures, a full service production company that takes care of the whole process from pre-production, through production, and through to sales and distribution. They can actually sell short films for theatrical release.
There is a studio where they can handle the post production: editing, color, sound.
Website will be released soon.