Lights, Camera, Pitch!

Lights, Camera, Pitch! is a card game for storytellers, film buffs and other creative types. It’s easy to learn for players of all ages, fun to play over and over, and makes a great gift for the writer/gamer/person-who-watches-too-much-TV in your life.

Players take on the role of screen producers who are competing for funding. Each player must pitch a film – inspired by the sets, actors and title cards they have in their hand – to “the studio” (another player). The studio asks tricky follow-up questions, makes annoying suggestions and decides which film to greenlight.

It’s guaranteed to get you and your friends laughing, as you desperately try to convince the studio that Detective Rampage, set on a submarine and starring Oprah Winfrey, would be a good movie.

Note: Oprah does not endorse this game. Not yet, at least. Call me, Oprah!

I used early versions of Lights, Camera, Pitch! as a teaching resource while I was running creative writing workshops at schools around Australia. The game was so much fun that I started playing it with my long-suffering friends. In 2019, I Kickstarted the game and sent it to backers all around the world.