READY, SET, PITCH!

Cheer on 2025 CAAM Fellows Pitching their Projects to a panel of Jurors

Get a peek at the process of pitching a film to funders! The 2025 CAAM Fellows Sue Ding, Manish Khanal and Angad Singh will have eight minutes to present their documentary pitches to a jury of representatives from Independent Television Service (ITVS), Catapult Film Fund, American Documentary (AmDoc/POV) and SFFILM. Each fellow will screen a sample video during their pitch, and after sharing their film proposals, they will then have fifteen minutes for a jury Q&A. 

Sue Ding’s Rice Rocket Revolution explores the roots of the import car community in Asian American youth culture. Manish Khanal’s Untitled Nepali Diaspora Project is a personal documentary following his family’s migration from Nepal to America. And Angad Singh’s Hunting Lions is about diaspora Sikh activists who were targeted in assassination plots.

The winning pitch will be announced during the Filmmaker & Awards Reception on Friday, May 9. The winner will receive a $10,000 grant from CAAM supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

This session is made possible in part with funding from Bank of America and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

Featuring 2025 CAAM Fellows: Sue Ding, Manish Khanal and Angad Singh and Jurors:  Keri Archer Brown, ITVS; Theresa Navarro, Catapult Film Fund; Masashi Niwano, SFFILM and Cecilia Mejia, AmDoc/POV as well as Don Young and Sapana Sakya, CAAM 

The Pitch will be followed by an opportunity to Meet & Mingle hosted by A-Doc.

Join us for delicious refreshments after Ready, Set, Pitch! to meet and mingle with industry representatives, CAAM Fellows and Mentors, our CAAMFest makers as well as local makers. We’ll also hear from our partners at A-Doc about what they’re working on before moving into formal industry meetings in the Office Hours session. 

Featuring Pallavi Somusetty, Co-Director, A-Doc and Meloddy Gao, staff member, A-Doc

Agenda
Thursday, May 8

12:30 PM REFRESHMENTS

1 PM READY, SET, PITCH!

3 PM MEET & MINGLE with A-Doc