Pitch

A Canadian documentary featuring two young filmmakers attending the Toronto Film Festival to pitch a film concept to various celebrities. Their film idea, titled "The Dawn", concerns a Mafia don who goes for a hernia operation but gets a sex change instead. During the 1996 Toronto Fest, they approach Roger Ebert, Norman Jewison (at a packed press conference), Eric Stoltz (leaving a limo), Al Pacino, and others without much success. On a roll, they leave Toronto for Hollywood, getting advice from Arthur Hiller and Neil Simon and finding an agent who expresses interest in their pitch.

• Release date
• September 4, 1997
• Runtime
• 81 min
• Genres
• Comedy, Documentary
• Director
• Spencer Rice

Cast

Kenny Hotz Self Spencer Rice Self Samuel Z. Arkoff Self Gérard Depardieu Self Roger Ebert Self Whoopi Goldberg Self Fred Williamson Self Al Pacino Self