A warning for anyone trying to get their film financed and made. I've watched this mistake happen so many times I had to say something.
You already know a bad pitch deck can sink a project and get you laughed out of the room. The sharks know it too. I'm not talking to the sharks. I'm talking to the fish.
I've watched people new to this industry, who don't know up from down yet, pay five figures for decks built by people who knew exactly what they were doing: collecting a paycheck while setting them up to fail.
As a working screenwriter who's spent years on the packaging side, that's the part that gets me.
So I built an Anti-Pitch Deck. It commits every mistake on purpose, the exact ones that get a deck killed before the meeting ends. There are 6 of them, and knowing them can be the difference between a deal closing and your project sinking.
If you're about to spend real money on packaging, or you already did and you've got a bad feeling about what you got, I'm happy to send it over. Worst case, you get a laugh. Best case, it saves you from a five-figure mistake.
