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Description
A compelling topic, fascinating subject, or important issue is only the beginning. The film still needs characters we can invest in, meaningful stakes, an unfolding dramatic question, and an emotional journey that carries the audience from beginning to end. In this story-focused coaching package, we’ll uncover the narrative already emerging from your material. Together, we’ll clarify what the film is truly about, identify its most compelling characters and conflicts, explore different structures, and determine what the audience should feel and understand by the end. This is not about forcing real life into a formula. It is about finding the choices, contradictions, relationships, and turning points that make reality feel cinematic. Three 60-minute coaching sessions Review of one treatment, assembly, or rough cut Feedback on up to 20 pages of written materials or 90 minutes of footage Logline and synopsis development Character and relationship analysis Central-question and dramatic-stakes assessment Documentary structure map Recommendations for interviews, vérité scenes, and archival storytelling Written creative roadmap One round of feedback on a revised treatment, outline, or story map
What you'll get from this package
Gain a documentary structure map to guide your storytelling approach.
Obtain personalized feedback on up to 20 pages of written materials or 90 minutes of footage.
Craft a creative roadmap with recommendations for interviews, vérité scenes, and archival storytelling.
Develop a cinematic logline and synopsis that encapsulate your documentary's core narrative.
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Offered by Shubhangi S.
Joined August 2026
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Award-Winning Filmmaker | Projects, Pitches & Sustainable Careers
I’m an award-winning filmmaker, creative producer, and marketing strategist with experience across development, production, directing, writing, post-production, marketing, and distribution. I directed and produced the feature documentary "Hoop Like This," guiding it from an independent idea through fundraising, production, post, festival strategy, audience development, and award-winning screenings across the country. My broader experience includes work with A24, Condé Nast Entertainment, Roy Kapur Films, Verizon Media, and Patreon, as well as producing and directing content for GQ, Vanity Fair, WIRED, Teen Vogue, and Architectural Digest. I’ve also developed high-volume digital campaigns and performance-driven creative for startups and consumer brands, giving me a valuable perspective at the intersection of storytelling, audience strategy, and business. I’ve been selected for the Women in Film Creative Documentary Producing Fellowship, Netflix’s Documentary Archival Researcher Training program, and The Salon Mentorship Program. As a coach, I can help filmmakers strengthen their concepts, treatments, pitch decks, budgets, fundraising strategies, production plans, festival and marketing campaigns, personal brands, and career materials. I understand how to make a project creatively compelling, strategically position it, and connect it with the right audience. I’m especially passionate about helping emerging filmmakers turn ambitious ideas into clear, achievable plans while using their creative skills to build sustainable careers in an ever-changing industry.
$285
3h of coaching