Documentary Accelerator

An 8-week intensive program designed to transform your film idea into a clear, actionable plan—turning vision into reality.

QUICK OVERVIEW

Join 1-on-1 coaching calls and small group conversations for your project to receive personalized attention, the nourishment and guts it needs to launch into the world.

Learn a new mindset and approach to documentary filmmaking, using unexpected entrepreneurship techniques for successfully launching projects.

Receive a map of an exclusive, real-time, current documentary landscape with an approach strategy you won’t find anywhere else.

Our Programming:

Improve Your Film Idea

Avoid typical mistakes and address the needs from the buyers, finding your film’s audience, value, seeing your film with the market in mind.

Discover Doc Industry

Learn about 20 TOP streamers and broadcasters, film festivals, markets, current selling strategies and key collaborators - and how to get to them.

Develop Your Pitch

Find visuals, descriptions, moods for the most effective expression of your film – the most compelling pitch, treatment and sizzle tailored for specific networks.

Mental & Physical Tools

Develop inner creative strength, flexibility and new ways of thinking, using creative exercises to get you out of self limiting beliefs and blocks, and prepare you for production.

Community Power

This is a safe space, a think tank and peer supporting community of storytellers, to expand your vision and nurture your creativity, to help us all to sprint forward together.

Personalized Learning

Learn directly from Lina’s wins and mistakes, and adapt her examples to your project. Let’s workshop the best scenario for your project.

“This was more valuable than film school.”

— Kayla, Cohort 1

“It was a great combination of how to dream an idea and take practical steps to getting there”

— Effie, Cohort 2

Premiering ‘Periodical’ at SXW

“Everything was thoroughly explained”

— Radha, Cohort 2

Interviewing Gloria Steinem for ‘Periodical’

Winning Best ‘Feature Length Documentary‘ for ‘Periodical’

Who This Is For

You have a documentary concept but don’t know how to proceed;
You want to figure out your film story, vision, pitch and the sizzle, and understand what are the paths and strategic moves to making your film;
You want to understand the documentary landscape and speak the language of film industry;
You’re ready to get out of “struggling artist” mentality and embrace entrepreneur thinking to find a successful path for your film.

What You Receive

In depth case studies of Advanced Style and Periodical documentaries;
Lina’s recent pitches and treatments;
A feature-length budget template;
A key-elements template for any grant submission.
Weekly office hours to ask questions and troubleshoot your project;
A 1-on-1 session on as-needed basis throughout the Accelerator.

APPLY HERE

Program Logistics

8 weekly 2 hour group calls, addressing different MODULES and your homework
8 weekly virtual “office hours” – consultations for individual projects to deal with their specific dilemmas, goals and roadblocks (on sign-up, as needed basis)
3 monthly group calls after we finish modules to continue building the momentum and help you further on your path
A community of peers to share resources, progress, wins and lessons
The course information is accessible on Skool.com/filmmakersaccelerator