Festival & grant deck
Sonder City
This audience judges craft and vision, not ROI. Lead with the director's voice and the image, not the budget. Cut anything that reads like a business plan.
02Logline
The film in one sentence
Your logline
[Protagonist] must [want], but [obstacle] — in a story about [theme], set in [world].
03Director's statement
Why this story, why this way
Statement of intent
What personal or artistic question the film is actually asking. Why memory, why this character, why now. This is the slide a grant panel reads most closely — write it in your own voice, not marketing copy.
04Themes
What the film is about, underneath the plot
Two or three thematic threads — memory, trauma, hope, identity, the self as unreliable narrator — and one sentence each on how the story dramatizes them rather than states them.
05Visual style
How memory is made to look like memory
Super 8 / Memory
Nostalgic registerTrauma
Fractured registerHope
Gentle registerReal, working presets from the production pipeline — not a mood-board aspiration. Reference: Bergman's Persona for the base color grade (Kodak 2383 / Fuji 3513DI print-stock LUTs, editorial-glamour CDL blend).
06Mood board
Stills
Still 1
Still 2
Still 3
Still 4
Use real rendered frames from the memory-reveal pipeline test clips if available — a jury responds far more to an actual frame than a reference-image collage.
07Team
Who's making it
Director
Bio, prior work, why this story is theirs to tell.
Producer / key collaborators
Bio, prior work.
08Production status
Where the project stands today
Already built
Still needed
Script stage, casting, financing status — fill in honestly. Panels value a clear-eyed account of what stage the project is actually at.
09Festival strategy
Where this film wants to premiere
| Festival / Lab | Why it fits |
|---|---|
| [Target festival 1] | [tone / track record with similar films] |
| [Target festival 2] | […] |
| [Development lab, if applicable] | […] |
10The ask
What this grant/lab funds
$[ ]Amount requested
[ ]Funds this stage of production
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