Con una trayectoria diversa que abarca más de quince años en el desarrollo televisivo en Londres y Nueva York, esta autora aporta una perspectiva única a su escritura. Su recorrido profesional, desde enfermera de urgencias hasta la creación de programas para grandes cadenas, imbuye sus narrativas con una mezcla distintiva de experiencia práctica y perspicacia creativa. Este rico tapiz de vida, que incluye aventuras en lugares remotos y una profunda inmersión en el mundo de la televisión de hechos reales, da forma a su distintiva voz literaria. Su trabajo inicial como documentalista, en particular una pieza sobre aviadores de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, obtuvo el reconocimiento de la crítica y destaca su habilidad para descubrir historias convincentes de resiliencia.
The must have guide to traditional, emerging and creative TV funding models that are being developed and exploited by social media-savvy documentary filmmakers. Each chapter covers a different form of funding and offers practical tips, case studies and also reveals what grantors, brands and NGOs are looking for in a pitch.
Greenlit explains how to develop, research, pitch and sell your idea for any type of factual or reality television show. It gives the inside track on what channel executives are really looking for, stories of how hit shows actually came about and advice from channel commissioners and development producers.
""Blows the lid on so many TV secrets"" Tom Archer, Controller Factual, BBC ""If every first-time producer read this before pitching a program, I guarantee a greater success rate"" Gary Lico, President/CEO, CABLEready, USA In recent years there has been an explosion of broadcast and cable channels with a desperate need for original factual/reality programming to fill their schedules: documentaries, observational series, makeover formats, reality competitions. Yet television executives receive a daily avalanche of inappropriate pitches from pushy, badly prepared producers. Only 1 in 100 prop