Participating companies

Our companies are all carefully screened, and only the most credible companies in the industry are invited to hear pitches. They may include:

• agents
• managers
• distributors and sales agents
• Hollywood production companies
• Canadian production companies
• international production companies
• advertisers and agencies
• funding organizations
• broadcasters and networks
• studio representatives

A full profile for each executive is available online in advance of the Great American PitchFest, and is also published and distributed to each participant at the event.

Please note that agents and production companies are not invited to the Great American PitchFest until approximately six weeks before the event. If you are interested in seeing a particular company attend, please let us know and we will make every effort to invite them and have them attend. Please email us the name of any particular company you would like to see at the Great American PitchFest, and preferably a website, phone, fax number, and/or address if possible.

We pay our companies a $100 honorarium because we feel that is a reasonable amount, and that it is the right thing to do.

Reasons:

• events usually occur on a weekend
• there is no pitching event without executives, they are the catalyst behind a script being produced or developed
• most of the representatives from these companies are Development Executives, not necessarily the owners of the company, which means that they may not necessarily be compensated financially by the production company