IFP and the steps to move along

Alright, so I've been preparing for IFP Independent Film Week. I created my business card and ordered 250 of those and I've been looking into how to market scripts and junk, so that I'll be better prepared when pitching to all the folks I meet there. I feel a little nervous about it, mostly I guess because it feels like there's this system in place and I'm navigating through it as an outsider. I like talking to people, but it feels uncomfortable when there's the sense of a bunch of unspoken rules that I don't really know much about. Or something like that.

I'm not a person who feels negatively towards the concept of 'pitching', or not anymore anyway. I understand why there is such a thing as pitching, it makes a lot of sense that with the number of projects consistently conceived of, a producer might want a direct and straight forward delivery of what they're dealing with. If they aren't interested, then they don't really have the time. However, understanding all of this doesn't mean that it's a comfortable idea. When I'm relaxed, I tend to talk a lot more, being relaxed also means things come more freely. I don't know how to both be relaxed and concise, and not being relaxed means an insecure pitch.

Anyway, in the end I'll figure something out, this is just where my head is now.