Listen to our No Film School Podcast interview with host GG Hawkins, a 2023 Moonshot Pilot Accelerator fellow
As a creative, you can't advance your career if you can't talk confidently about your work.
That's one of the topics covered on our recent episode of the No Film School Podcast, hosted by GG Hawkins. GG has a unique perspective on Moonshot and our programming, as she was one of our eight Moonshot Pilot Accelerator fellows in 2023. Through our accelerator, GG honed her pitch with the help of experts including a development exec, a showrunner, and a speech coach. Then, she had the opportunity to pitch her pilot to companies including HBO, Netflix, and more.
GG draws from this experience as she interviews Moonshot co-founders Katrina Medoff and Tracy Sayre for this popular podcast. The episode covers pitching and our nonprofit's work boosting underrepresented voices on screen.
"I wanted to share my learnings from the Moonshot Pilot Accelerator with the No Film School Podcast audience as part of my mission to make this whole career — this whole dream — of becoming a filmmaker a lot more approachable," GG said. "In my conversation with Katrina and Tracy, we reinforce the most important things to remember about pitching, including the fact that the folks hearing your pitch are rooting for you, and that the pitch itself is something you can control if you take the right steps to set yourself up for success. Pitching doesn’t have to be overwhelming!"
In this podcast episode, we discuss:
What Moonshot does to advance the careers of underrepresented voices on screen and behind the camera
Working with filmmakers and creatives in all stages of their career
Offering a safe space for program participants to ask questions
The Moonshot Pilot Accelerator (formerly WWFC's Pilot Accelerator), which helps filmmakers pitch TV show ideas to executives at HBO, Netflix, Hulu, Showtime, Warner Bros., and many more
How Tracy and Katrina know when they have found an excellent script
The mentality you need going into a pitch meeting
Writing the pitch before writing the script
Why you have to be comfortable talking about your work
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ABOUT GG HAWKINS
GG Hawkins is a writer, director, and podcaster. Her work has been showcased at the Tribeca Festival, Hollyshorts, Salute Your Shorts, Sonoma International Film Festival, Dances With Film, and more. Her forthcoming feature, ‘An Island,’ shot in Bocas del Toro, Panama, is now in post production. GG hosts the No Film School Podcast, interviewing filmmaking talents such as Kelly Fremon Craig, Ray Romano, Lulu Wang, and Stephen Williams. She wrote and directed "G.U.F.," an episode of "You Feeling This?" which premiered at Tribeca in 2023. She received the Channie Award for Best Directing for her web series, 'Kinda Flakey.' Her short film 'An Aspirational Space' was awarded the Robert De Niro Scholarship. She is a fellow of the Film Independent Episodic Lab and the Moonshot Initiative Pilot Accelerator. You can follow her work at gghawkins.com or on social media @lostingraceland.
ABOUT NO FILM SCHOOL
No Film School is the world’s most popular filmmaking website, with over a million visitors every month. No Film School publishes the latest news, tutorials, interviews, and videos to help you become a better filmmaker. Its popular and highly-rated podcast places consistently at the top of the charts for Film & TV. No Film School was founded in 2010 by award-winning filmmaker Ryan Koo, who went on to write and direct "Amateur," a Sundance Screenwriters Lab selection and Netflix Original Film. Learn more about No Film School on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube.