Coffee Talk 2016: I Have a Story That I Think is a Film. What Now?

Mountain Lodge Telluride

Many aspiring — and seasoned — filmmakers are all too familiar with the feeling: You find a compelling story screaming to be told, but how do you navigate the financial, technical, practical and logistical hurdles to get from from concept to reality? Sandi Dubowski, filmmaker of Trembling Before G-d and and Outreach Director for Good Pitch; John Hoffman, the executive vice president of documentaries and specials for Discovery; and Suzan Beraza, a Telluride filmmaker who directed past festival films Bag It (2009) and Uranium Drive-in (2013), discuss the daunting process of getting a film off the ground.