Helping funders and partners fall in love with your idea
Explore what’s at the heart of any successful pitch or application – describing what you want to make and why.
Coinciding with The Space’s 2025 commissioning round, this webinar explores what’s at the heart of any successful pitch or application – describing what you want to make and why. An application to a prospective funder, partner, commissioner or distributor demands that you not only talk about your idea, but really sell your creative vision to those people who can help you to make it a reality.
There’s so much to think about when putting together an application or a pitch. Sometimes the sheer excitement of an idea or a project gets a bit lost along the way, or sometimes the opposite happens and an applicant’s enthusiasm means that the application isn’t clear as it needs to be. But nothing is more persuasive than a fantastic idea, presented in a way that brings it to life. So how do you enthuse potential funders and partners, and get them as excited as you are?
In this webinar we’ll hear from artists who’ve used their storytelling skills in different ways to captivate funders. And we’ll hear how funders and potential collaborators approach the selection process and know when they’re on to something special.
We’ll cover
How can you communicate your vision?
How do you make your idea standout?
How can presentations, taster tapes and other materials help bring your idea to life?
How do you carry on ‘selling’ your idea as you move into production and the work evolves?
Speakers
Natalie Woolman
Commissioning Editor, Broadcast & Online Strategy at The Space. Natalie will be joined by guests who share their experience, including on commissions supported by The Space.
Jonathan is an Award-Winning Choreographer and Director working across film, theatre and dance. He recently launched Ballet Queer, the U.K’s first LGBTQ+ ballet company to create authentic Queer work and showcase the talents of Queer artists. This Is How I Move: NAIA, supported by The Space and premiered on Nowness, is Ballet Queer‘s first public-facing work.
Gomolemo Nyakale
Goms is a South African-born writer-director, editor and colourist with a passion for telling stories of authentic human experiences. In 2023 Goms was commissioned by Sky Arts, Arts Council England, LEEDS 2023, The Space, and Studio12 to write and direct The Last Day, a coming-of-age drama set in the nostalgic mid-90s.
Listen to a description of the webinar.
Additional information
The webinar lasts 90 minutes and will take place on Zoom.
There will be a live captioner throughout.
The session is delivered in a webinar format. Your camera and microphone are disabled. However, we very much welcome discussions and interactions in the chat.
A recording of the webinar will be made available after the event, on The Space’s YouTube channel
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