South Film Hindi Dubbed
Courtland Boland
Up to two team members are welcome to pitch during the live event. Please note, all compensation is distributed per project (not per individual). The pitch competition takes place in-person at the New Orleans Film Festival. Therefore, accepted applicants must be available to participate in-person.
Is the project developed enough to take advantage of the program? Is the applicant in an ideal place in their career to receive feedback from industry advisors? Do they demonstrate a need and willingness to learn?
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The South Pitch program takes place during the New Orleans Film Festival and awards a total of $30,000 to South-based filmmakers. The program features two tracks: South Pitch Narrative and South Pitch Documentary. The winning pitch in each track will receive a $10,000 award, and all pitchers will receive a minimum of a $1,000 award, in addition to a travel stipend and pass to attend the New Orleans Film Festival. Winners are announced during the Festival Awards Brunch.
Since 2011, South Pitch has provided a unique outlet for filmmakers from across the American South to gain valuable, constructive feedback on their projects in development or production. Films that have taken part in the program previously include:
The live event, which is free and open to the public, not only provides a platform for these important stories but also offers an opportunity to witness how leading industry professionals evaluate proposals. Prior panelists have represented organizations such as ITVS, Firelight Media, Viva Maude, Sundance Institute, Marginal Mediaworks, and more.
When Faisal, a Pakistani teenage cricket star, is forced to move to the US with his parents, he decides to start a cricket team at his American public high school much to the chagrin of the school teachers and administration.
When the building of a new factory threatens to displace the residents of Lengua Sagrada, the tight-knit community of Racoons and their cultural legacy hangs in the balance. This surreal, allegorical tale follows one family as they learn the heartbreaking wisdom of surrender.
Christine Hoang won the competition with her project Fly Girl. Hoang will be the recipient of an artist grant from WarnerMedia OneFifty. Support from the WarnerMedia OneFifty team will aid in the creation of a proof-of-concept film with the goal of packaging the materials to pitch across WarnerMedia divisions for further development. All six finalist projects selected to pitch in the WarnerMedia Narrative South Pitch Open Call received $1000 toward their individual projects.
struggle through a best friendship turned hidden love affair in the suffocating, patriarchal culture of the American South. Shot on-location in Western North Carolina through an ethical indie filmmaking framework, this project is a timely and loving way of physically supporting the LGBT+ community while contributing to the ever-changing media narrative on queer experience.
MJ Eastin and Rebecca Isbill Davis won the competition with their project E is For: I. They received an unrestricted $2,000 grant for the project from the New Orleans Film Society as well as a $40,000 post-production package (to include post-production consultation, online conform, and Full Digital Intermediate color grade) from Kyotocolor.
Told through a collection of seven Sundays in the summer of her eleventh year, Lua Dunn falls hard into adolescence as she navigates her first love with conflicting lessons from her street and her church.
On the morning of her senior homecoming game, a self-involved high school cheerleader and her overworked single mom wake up to find that their mobile home is being repossessed with them inside of it. The women blame each other as they roll through rural roads in Central Texas, but they must come to an agreement or they will lose more than just their moving home.
Ma Belle, My Beauty
Director: Marion Hill
As two recently married musicians adjust to life in France, a beloved ex, who abruptly disappeared from their polyamorous relationship years ago, finally visits.
Orphan Country
Producer: Robert Colom
With their agency invalidated by their youth, three children of different eras experience exile and emigration over a fifty-year span of the Cuban Revolution.
Love in Gretna
Director: Daneeta Loretta Jackson
A 60 something divorcee falls in love with a married man and conspires to have him at all costs. Religion, magic, and bad blood bonds commingle in this black comedy/drama set in Down the Road, Louisiana against the backdrop of climate change and the Trumpocracy.
Murder Ballads
Director: Michael Curtis Johnson
Hank Huckabee and Brandon Tyler killed three men who responded to a fake classified ad they posted on an online job board for a caretaker position. A fourth man managed to escape. Based on true events.
Distance
Director: Najma Nurriddin
An innocent moment while exploring turns into a full blown relationship. Fati, a confident New Orleanian who loves to travels mets the free-spirited Pascal who owns a surf shop in Haiti. While Fati walks the streets of Jacmel, taking in which all the land has to offer that is deeply connected to her home town, she mets the good vibes of Pascal.
Comac
Director: Aby Rao
A Filipino-American woman and a Kurdish-Iranian refugee teenager face cultural and familial expectations which clash with their passions and life-long dreams. Their mutual love for Taekwondo helps them achieve unimaginable goals.
The interconnected daily journeys of bus riders and operators on the New Orleans Regional Transit Authority bus lines illuminate why the black community here has been disproportionately affected by COVID-19. While the bus operators fight for proper PPE, hazard pay, and sick time off they continue to provide a necessary, but dangerous service to frontline workers, the sick, and the homeless population through a pandemic.
At Texas A&M, the first public college in Texas, a movement to build the first statue of a person of color reveals Black history older than the university itself. For 25-years, a statue honoring state Senator Matthew Gaines, an ex-slave who helped to create the university, has remained a controversial subject at Texas A&M.
A family reeling from the unjust incarceration of an ailing mentally ill loved one, calls on their faith and the strength of community to right a systemic wrong. Music, love and creativity is used to permeate the isolation of a solitary confinement cell, and a public performance on prison grounds is used to challenge the state to do better.
THESE KIDS THIS CITY is a film about the young people of Liberty City, Miami and its infamous bike life culture, which reaches its pinnacle every Martin Luther King Weekend, when thousands flood the streets on dirt bikes and four wheelers riding in a form of rebellion and community. After a hate crime incident occurs while protesting the climate gentrification of their inner city housing, the movement is catapulted into a national spotlight.
Austin is overflowing with entrepreneurs. But venture capital dollars rarely make it into marginalized communities. This film takes you into the living rooms of women hailing from all over Latin America as they work together to navigate the small business lifestyle.
Blood Peach WINNER
Director: Zuri Obi
Wild peach groves grow full and lush along the Mississippi River. Tantalizing as they may be, they remain untouched for the people of Natchez know the bloody history of the land that feeds these strange fruit.
The Sixth Wall
Directors: Emily MacKenzie; Noah Collier
Located in the carpet Capitol of the world, Dalton Georgia, a self fashioned Scottish cowboy wields the influence of American identity as he prepares to move his textile business from one of the last remaining American manufacturers to China. Where does the myth of American identity begin and end and who is entitled to manipulate it for profit?
In 2021, our student pitch competition was virtual and participating institutions included University of North Alabama, Florida State University, Spelman College, Virginia Commonwealth University, Loyola University, Eckerd University, Wakeforest University, and University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
In the midst of the tumultuous summer of 2021 and the issues that came to define it (such as COVID spikes and a category 4 hurricane), Baton Rouge-born filmmaker Ugonna Njoku explores the relationship between sense of belonging and health that shape every aspect of our lived experiences, from art to healthcare accessibility.
JORDAN, a queer young woman, navigates the budding relationship between her and her crush, AUDREY, but just as things are looking up, their story takes a dark turn. Finding herself in a real-life horror film, Jordan must figure out how to stop the killer all while bringing to light how ironic it is that queer women, such as herself, never get their happy endings.
In this off-beat Queer dramedy, a 20-something do-nothing, rapidly approaching their 3rd gap year after high school, has an alien encounter that sends them into a neurotic search for meaning with only a van, a stolen credit card, and a homeless cat to guide them.
In 2019, participating institutions were Eckerd College, Loyola University New Orleans, University of North Alabama, University of Texas at Austin, Florida State University, Wake Forest University, and University of New Orleans.
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