Pitch (1997)

Directed by

Spencer Rice, Kenny Hotz

Genre

documentary film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 21m

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 22 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two young Canadian filmmakers attend the 1996 Toronto International Film Festival to pitch a deliberately bizarre movie idea to celebrities and industry people. They approach figures like Roger Ebert and Al Pacino, then go to Hollywood for more meetings. The film documents their mostly unsuccessful attempts.

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What happens

Pitch is a 1997 Canadian documentary created by Kenny Hotz and Spencer Rice, featuring themselves as two young filmmakers attending the Toronto International Film Festival to pitch a film concept to various celebrities. Their film idea, titled "The Dawn", concerns a Mafia don who goes for a hernia operation but gets a sex change instead. During the 1996 Toronto fest, they approach Roger Ebert, Norman Jewison (at a packed press conference), Eric Stoltz (leaving a limo), Al Pacino, and others without much success. On a roll, they leave Toronto for Hollywood, getting advice from Arthur Hiller and Neil Simon and finding an agent who expresses interest in their pitch. The film was shown at the 1997 Toronto Film Festival. The film features songs by the Toronto band Phono-Comb. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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