Here’s the Pitch

In an effort to write an amusing article, Emily Polsby unnecessarily distorted and misrepresented the facts regarding this summer’s Hollywood Pitch Festival (“Talk About a Fevered Pitch,” Sept. 7).

In her article, the Hollywood Pitch Festival was depicted as some stand-in-line-all-day event, where, as one of 250 attendees, you get three minutes to pitch executives. For the past six years, 200 attendees, from all walks of life from the U.S. and abroad, have scheduled one-on-one appointments with members of the Hollywood community representing the major studios, networks, the principal talent agencies as well as established producers and literary managers. Each meeting is seven minutes. And each attendee is given a list to review (a week in advance), which clearly states what each industry professional-production entity is currently looking to produce (a list Polsby clearly neglected to read, as evidenced by her misguided exchange with the action producer).

Several of the attendees Polsby portrayed as crazy with outlandish ideas actually had great results at the event. Even the so-called ex-drug dealer’s “69 Reasons Not to Deal Drugs” is currently being developed by Neil Labute’s company, Pretty Pictures, as a result of the festival.

AUDREY KELLY

Editor

Fade In Magazine

Beverly Hills

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If Emily Polsby can write a screenplay as good as the article she wrote for Calendar, that’s a movie I’d probably want to go see.

BOB ABRAHAMS

Los Angeles