Are they still accepting pitches

I believe I have responded to everyone's PMs now ... so if you didn't hear from me, I apologize but can you please ping me to remind me you are still waiting.

Thanks,
Larry
 
hey, guys. I'm replacing my name on the list of who to submit to with Zak Forsman's. You may now submit to him instead of me, or the other people on the list. I've just not been able to get back to folks quick enough.

Later,
Jason
 
Guys please stop submitting "tease" pitches that contain things like

MADE UP "TEASE" EXAMPLE
"Twin brothers Frick and Frak, chess enthusiasts who run a small but renowned detective agency, are excited about the national Chess tournament coming up. Until someone murders the Chess master set to compete there that is. So they set out to discover the truth, but they could never have been prepared to find something so bonechillingly mindbending that came from their very own pasts."

That kind of thing is good for posters and to tease audiences with, give them more questions than answers so they'll see the movie, but not for a Quest Fest Pitch. Like investors we have to know what actually happens. You'll never get someone to option your idea by telling them "a dark secret is discovered" in your story. You'll have to tell them what the "dark secret" is, so they'll know what they're spending their money on.

Here we're not spending money but we want to make sure of two things
1) that the films have a clear throughline this time
2) that what you turn in was made for quest fest
So that requires specificity. Not a lot of detail - there's a difference between detail and specificity - but it does require specifics.

MADE UP REVISION
"Twin brothers Frick and Frak, chess enthusiasts who run a small but renowned detective agency, are excited about the national Chess tournament coming up. Until someone murders the Chess master set to compete there that is. So they set out to discover who killed the Chess master. It'll be a tough case though with the whole Canadian Chess Board trying to hush up the matter. In the end they discover there never was any real murder, they were merely pawns, set up by the Chess master himself to embarrass them professionally because the two detectives were the only ones who had ever defeated him way back when they were all children in Chess Camp."

We're not going to steal your story or publish your pitch, but we won't greenlight anything that is about "A guy" who "sets out to find the truth" and discovers "a secret".

BREAK DOWN
"Twin brothers Frick and Frak, chess enthusiasts who run a small but renowned detective agency,(WHO)

are excited about the national Chess tournament coming up. Until someone murders the Chess master set to compete there that is. So they set out to discover who killed the Chess master. (CLEAR QUEST/GOAL)

It'll be a tough case though with the whole Canadian Chess Board trying to hush up the matter. (OBSTACLE)

In the end they discover that there never was any real murder, they were merely pawns, set up by the Chess master himself to embarrass them as the only two who had ever defeated him way back when they were all children in Chess Camp."(HOW WE KNOW IF THEY SUCCEEDED OR NOT)

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Well laid out Jack. There is a fair amount of paranoia among the less experienced filmmakers where they are afraid of divulging their great idea in fear of someone stealing it and making their own or making it themselves. In a contest like this filmmakers have to realize that a certain level of trust has to be given (especially) to the moderators in order to streamline things. There have been borderline theme entries in the past, some of them last minute and the pitch process helps to clarify that... but only if filmmakers cooperate.
 
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