So You Think You Can Pitch? Awards

The cheers, the tears, the stories, the prize, the entertainment and the excitement – all will unfold in front of your eyes at the sixth annual So You Think You Can Pitch? Competition Live Finale on Sunday November 13, 11:00 AM at The Royal. Join the audience as each finalist team pitches its best film idea to a live jury in under six minutes. Winners will be announced at the Industry Reception immediately following.

EMERGING ARTIST AWARD:

• A production package from Charles Street Video worth $3,000 (a $10,000 value at industry rental rates) including:
  • One-year membership with Charles Street Video
  • Two sessions with Charles Street Video’s in-house editor
  • A production workflow consultation, including:
    • $1,000 in edit suite access
    • $400 in production equipment rentals
    • $300 materials credit
• Distribution option through Ouat Media, with broadcast on Movieola
• $2,000 cash
• Opportunity to screen work at the 2011 Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival with full festival accreditation

PROFESSIONAL ARTIST AWARD:

• A production package from Charles Street Video worth $5,000 (a $18,000 value at industry rental rates) including:
  • One-year membership with Charles Street Video
  • Two sessions with Charles Street Video’s in-house editor
  • A production workflow consultation, including:
    • $2,000 in edit suite access
    • $700 in production equipment rentals
    • $300 materials credit
• Distribution option through Ouat Media, with broadcast on Movieola
• $2,000 cash
• Opportunity to screen work at the 2011 Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival with full festival accreditation

The So You Think You Can Pitch Awards? are supported by Charles Street Video, National Bank, Ouat Media, and Behind the Scenes Services.

SO YOU THINK YOU CAN PITCH? JURY

	NOBU ADILMAN is a Toronto-based artist working in television, film, music, journalism, podcasting and web interactive. He got his start as a writer for network television (Emily of New Moon, Cold Squad) and continued to act (Trailer Park Boys, Parsley Days) and host television shows (Smart Ask!, ZeD, Food Jammers, Invention Nation). In 2010 he directed an interactive web documentary with the NFB entitled Crash Course: Creative Lessons in Surviving an Economic Tsunami, and also produced and directed a short documentary film to celebrate the opening of TIFF Bell Lightbox, titled Starting Over: The Legacy of Leslie and Clara Reitman. Adilman most recently founded choir! choir! choir!
	EILEEN ARADIGA is the Festival Director of the Worldwide Short Film Festival in Toronto, a festival with which she has been associated for over eight years in various capacities. Eileen has previously worked for the Toronto International Film Festival in the area of industry programming and services, and with various arts organizations in Australia. She has also run filmmaking workshops for young women in Toronto, has sat on festival juries and has programmed shorts for Signals Festival in the UK, NEXT Short Film Festival in Romania and the Australian Canadian Film Festival in Sydney, Australia. Eileen sits on the Board of ImagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival.
	LILA KARIM has over 15 years experience in arts administration, event management, and film development. Karim is currently the Managing Director of Arts North York with the Toronto Arts Foundation and the Festival Director of the Toronto Irish Film Festival. She has previously worked for the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, ReelWorld Film Festival, and Astral's Harold Greenberg Fund. Karim is active within the arts community as a juror and is also an accomplished photographer and filmmaker.