Telefilm Canada PITCH THIS! is no ordinary pitch session; it's an event that elevates conventional pitches for both pitcher and audience.

In order to select pitchers, an open call is set up for projects that not only demonstrate creative and business potential, but aim to renew our ingrained expectations of what a pitch should be. Through a rigorous evaluation process, six projects are chosen from across Canada.

Our goal is to foster a unique pitch event. Most pitches take place in a slick corner office; we've retired the office environment in favour of a stage and a live audience.

After all the pitches are done, the Toronto International Film Festival Group's International Industry Advisory Committee selects one winner from the competitors for the $10,000.00 award. This money will assist the winning filmmaker with the travel costs associated with attending major international festivals abroad, thereby setting the filmmaking process in motion.

For the past four years, Telefilm Canada PITCH THIS! has been a roaring success. Join us again this year to watch the pitchers give performances of a lifetime.

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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2004
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After several years as part of the team at the award winning production company Buffalo Gal Pictures, Robert Sauvey and Shawn Watson joined forces to form Ocular Productions based in Winnipeg, Canada. Sauvey was the Manager of Development, packaging projects for national and international markets and Watson Co-produced feature films, television series and lifestyle programs. The two are developing feature films and documentaries and currently working with some of the Canada’s top talent.

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Will Pascoe’s feature documentary NOAM CHOMSKY: REBEL WITHOUT A PAUSE was at the 2003 IDFA Film Festival in Amsterdam and his comedic short film STRUM, is now playing at festivals. As a writer, his First World War feature script "Generals Die In Bed" is currently in development. He’s now developing his children’s sci-fi action series "The Misfits".

Jennifer has produced the television series The Three Passions of Bertrand Russell, Mystic Women, First Light, Canada for Children, and the documentary, Noam Chomsky: Rebel Without a Pause and is developing the features Generals Die in Bed, Wendigo, and Masterpiece. She is also a graduate of the CFC's Producer's Lab.

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David has written and directed a number of short films that have successfully played in festivals throughout the world.

In addition to directing TV commercials, his work creating on-air looks for broadcasters has won numerous awards world-wide.

He plans to make his feature directing debut with his recently completed screenplay "Float."

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Brian Morey has been writing for film and television since graduating from the Canadian Film Centre in 1999. His current feature film projects include LOVESICK, a romantic comedy optioned by Copperheart Entertainment, and NEAR DEATH, which received development support from Telefilm Canada and the National Screen Institute’s "Features First" Program. He has written multiple episodes of PARADISE FALLS and recently completed the series bible and pilot episode for a proposed animated show, BC BATTLERS, on behalf of UK-based One31 Media Ltd

Sue Reidl has been working in the film industry for 10 years. She has worked in post production, visual effects and is currently an animation producer. She has directed many shorts over the years and attended the directing program at the Canadian Film Centre in 1998. She is working on directing her first feature, Near Death, and also writes for children's television.

In 2003 Paula Devonshire produced the feature films GINGER SNAPS: UNLEASHED and GINGER SNAPS: THE BEGINNING, sequels to the critically acclaimed feature GINGER SNAPS. Paula has also produced four short films and has worked as a line producer, associate producer and production manager on films and TV.

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Andrea Dorfman’s first full-length film, PARSLEY DAYS, premiered at the Toronto Film Festival (2000) and went on to be voted as one of the Toronto International Film Festival Group's Canada's Top Ten 2001 list. Dorfman ’s second feature, LOVE THAT BOY (2003), co-written with Jennifer Deyell, was theatrically released across Canada and is currently enjoying much critical acclaim on the festival circuit.

Jennifer Deyell’s first feature LOVE THAT BOY was co-written with Andrea Dorfman. They are collaborating on three other projects Créme de la Créme (finalist TIFF PITCH THIS! 2003), Marigold (recipient Telefilm SAP) and Old Girls (finalist TIFF PITCH THIS! 2004). Jennifer is also developing an MOW through CTV’s Writer Only Fund and is a graduate of the Canadian Film Centre’s Writers’ Lab (2000) and PSP (2001).

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Stephanie Morgenstern is a bilingual, award-winning actor/filmmaker. Her two shorts, CURTAINS and REMEMBRANCE, were both nominated for Genie (Canadian Academy) Awards. Widely seen in MAELSTRÖM, THE SWEET HEREAFTER, and REVOIR JULIE, Stephanie is also a graduate of the Women in the Director’s Chair Master Class and the Berlinale Talent Campus.

Mark Ellis is an acclaimed actor/writer whose career spans film, television and theatre. Recent credits include leading roles in Shaftesbury’s Carol Shields Stories and the upcoming series, Dark Oracle. He co-created the award-winning short REMEMBRANCE (earning a Golden Sheaf nomination for his performance) and is an alumnus of the Berlinale Talent Campus.

Paula Fleck has worked in film, television and video for the past seventeen years. Her short films Passengers and Remembrance have won numerous awards and appeared at more than 100 festivals around the world. The feature film version of Remembrance is currently in its second draft stage of development.

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