Local movie producer/director Jonathan Chuby just won the $36,000 production prize package at the Whistler Film Festival during the Power Pitch Competition.
Local movie producer/director Jonathan Chuby just won the $36,000 production prize package at the Whistler Film Festival during the Power Pitch Competition that sees creators get six little minutes to do their best to convince industry leaders that their idea for a movie is worth making.
A duck race was a popular method of fund raising in Prince George, especially back in the day. Here’s how it worked: people would buy a numbered rubber ducky – or more – and hundreds would be dropped from a local bridge and away the rubber duckies would go floating down the river. The first one across the finish line would win a grand prize sponsored by a local business.
“It was tough,” Jonathan said about the six-minute time limit. “It’s its own beast, right? Everyone in the competition was very lucky because we had Kevin Wright, who does workshops for pitching to Hollywood people – that’s what he does for a living, so as part of the program we had time to work with him to help refine our pitches and he was extremely helpful. He really helped me understand what’s important and what’s not in the pitching kind of world.
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