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SUMMARY:Film Master Series: Masterclass: Documentary Essentials
DESCRIPTION:\nAbout the Session:\n\n\n\nMarch 25, 2025 – Masterclass: Documentary Essentials\n\n\n\n7:00 PM to 9:00 PM (CST)Registration Fee: $30.00Via Zoom – Link will be provided after you register\n\n\n\n\nRegister Here ( https://filmtraining.mb.ca/pay-for-courses-online/ )\n\n\n\n\nWith over 20 documentary writing credits, screenwriter Mark Bailey has been deeply involved in creating a wide collection of award-winning films such as The Synanon Fix (2024), Downfall: The Case Again Boeing (2022), Take Every Wave: The Life of Laird Hamilton (2017), Last Days in Vietnam (2014), and Ethel (2011).\n\n\n\nDuring this two-hour masterclass session, Bailey will provide training on the elements of creating and pitching documentary films. Using in-depth examples from the many different genres he’s worked in, Bailey’s training sessions will also provide learning on topics such as research, story mapping and how to build your project toward an effective pitch.\n\n\n\nDuring this live Zoom session, Bailey will provide a full lecture and then participants will receive moderated time to ask questions in a supportive group setting.\n\n\n\nTopics covered:\n\n\n\n• Gathering intel and how to do the right research in prep for your pitch• Importance of story mapping and tone• Strategies to hook the funder and how to select the right funder to match your project• Advice for selecting/collaborating with co-producers• Crafting your logline and developing a concise synopsis and treatment• The importance of elements in a pitch deck and sizzle reel\n\n\n\nAbout the Instructor:\n\n\n\nMARK BAILEY, writer/producer\n\n\n\nMark Bailey is a four-time Emmy-nominated writer and producer who has worked on a variety of award-winning documentaries. Bailey’s films have been broadcast on Netflix, HBO, PBS, National Geographic, Hulu, Discovery Channel, Lifetime Television, A & E, Court TV and TLC. His films have been shown at numerous festivals including Sundance, NY Film Festival, Tribeca, AFI, Hot Docs and Full Frame.\n\n\n\nMost recently, Bailey wrote/produced The Synanon Fix, the HBO 4-part docuseries on Synanon, the long-celebrated addiction treatment center that transformed over the decades into an organization engaging in cult-like activity. The series premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2024 and went on to break MAX’s Global Top Ten Documentary Series.\n\n\n\nIn 2022, Bailey wrote/produced feature documentary The Volcano: Rescue from Whakaari. The film was released by Netflix on in December 2022 and five days later became the number one Netflix film in the US, as well as in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and much of Europe. Later that week, it reached number one worldwide.\n\n\n\nEarlier that same year, Bailey wrote/produced the Netflix feature documentary, DOWNFALL: The Case Against Boeing, an investigation of the two Boeing 737 Max airplane crashes. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival January 2022 and launched on Netflix the following month. It went on to reach number 7 on Netflix’s Top Ten most popular films worldwide. For his work on the film, Bailey was nominated for a WGA Award for Best Documentary Screenplay.\n\n\n\nIn 2017, Bailey wrote/produced Take Every Wave: The Life of Laird Hamilton, the feature documentary premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was distributed theatrically through IFC.\n\n\n\nIn 2015, Bailey’s documentary, Last Days in Vietnam, was nominated for an Academy Award and Bailey himself was nominated for a Primetime Emmy for Best Nonfiction Writing and a WGA Award for Best Documentary Screenplay. That same year he was nominated for a News & Documentary Emmy in Outstanding Historical Programming for his producing work on the PBS series Makers: Women Who Make America.\n\n\n\nIn 2012, Bailey was nominated for a Primetime Emmy for Best Nonfiction Writing for the feature documentary Ethel and won the Humanitas Prize for Documentary Writing for the same film. Some of Bailey’s other films include the Emmy Award-winning Ghosts Of Abu Ghraib, the five-part series Pandemic: Facing AIDS, for which Bailey was also nominated for a Primetime Emmy, and American Hollow, nominated for an Emmy Award and an Independent Spirit Award.\n\n\n\nBailey has authored or edited five books: a collection of immigrant stories, Nine Irish Lives (Algonquin Books, 2018), a social history of Hollywood, Of All The Gin Joints (Algonquin Books, 2014), a children’s book, Tiny Pie (Running Press, 2012), a cocktail guide, Hemingway & Bailey’s Bartending Guide to Great American Writers (Algonquin Books, 2006), and a journalistic account of an impoverished Appalachian family, American Hollow (Little, Brown & Co., 1999).\n
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