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Your Weekly Phone Q&A with Working Hollywood!
Learn from Hollywood's Elite - from HOME - ON THE PHONE!
Greetings Fellow Screenwriters,
Let's face it, the screenwriting life is a tough one. Remember, we're trying to get studios or investors to spend not just thousands on us, but invest tens or even hundreds of millions in OUR VERY OWN DREAM...it's an uphill climb.
Still, almost every weekend, we see movies that...aren't very good. We write screenplays every year that, in our hearts, we know, are better than...if not EVERY movie we see, better than MOST of the movies we see. And we wonder:
"How, and WHY did that movie get made?"
"Why can't my screenplays get made?"
"Why aren't they optioned or bought?
"Why can't I get my writing READ?"
It can be painful. But...
THE ANSWER TO ALL THESE QUESTIONS...IS...
...ACCESS.
I WANT ACCESS NOW!
Access to the powers that be at agencies, production and management companies and studios. Relationships to build a career on!
A filmmaker had ACCESS to funds...and so the movie got made...almost regardless of its quality!
Why don't your screenplays get made? Optioned? Purchased?
Why can't you even get your work READ SOMETIMES?
Sorry, you and your writing just don't have...the ACCESS.
Access to readers, producers, buyers, representatives. To anyone who can say "YES"!
Maybe you don't live anywhere near Los Angeles. Maybe you do, but can't get your script through the development maze -- maybe you've run up against the wall of "No unsolicited material". Maybe you've gotten your work read but at the lowest levels, by unpaid interns who also, have no...
...ACCESS...
...to the people in power, the executives, the producers, the decision-makers, the people who actually buy and option the scripts, who make the movies...or at least might read your screenplay and keep you in mind for future assignments, pitches and rewrite work?
It seems a long way off and far away, doesn't it? And it might be...without...
...ACCESS.
I WANT ACCESS NOW!
Now, THE SECRET:
Yes, there ARE gatekeepers, AND readers AND interns AND assistants all standing between you and walking the red carpet at the premiere of your dream movie in Hollywood...
...BUT...they're missing something. Just like you, THEY'RE all looking for something...
...great writing.
...a WONDERFUL SCREENPLAY.
Or a terrific pitch. Sometimes just an idea. The next BIG IDEA. And...WRITERS!
And you know what they need?
ACCESS...!
To YOU.
To your ideas, your brain, your work, your pitching and...
...YOUR SCREENPLAYS.
But how will they even know you exist?
I WANT ACCESS NOW!
Query Letters and Emails? Sometimes these work, if you've got a great log line, AND it comes to them the same day they've been asked of a script just like yours!
Query Phone Calls? So many gate keepers!
Pitch Fests and Screenwriting Conferences? These are great, but pricey, especially with travel, hotel and other expenses, most of us can't afford more than one or two each year!
What do we do the rest of the time?
What if you could:
- Speak with Hollywood Producers, Agents, Development Executives, Lawyers, Managers, Script Readers and Consultants, even other successful Writers? And --
- Hear them interviewed?
- At home, on your phone from your living room, bedroom, on your cell phone anywhere in the world?
- Hear what they're looking for?
- Learn their pet peeves, likes and dislikes AND submission procedures for your screenplay?
- Establish that vital "First Contact"? Then --
- Get to know them! Break the ice, so the next time you contact them, it'll be like you're old friends!
- Ask your questions, LIVE, in person, on the call?
I WANT ACCESS NOW!
AND THEN:
Own the call, as an MP3 recording, on your computer or iPod...or to access or download in the HollywoodByPhone.com Archives with your membership number, email and name. Listen to it over and over!
THINK OF IT! YOU, ON A CONFERENCE CALL WITH:
HOLLYWOOD PRODUCERS!
Learning:
- How they got to where they are today!
- Their "aesthetic" of filmmaking!
- All their credits!
- The story of each movie from beginning to end!
- The "Working Process" they have with writers!
- And what they're LOOKING FOR!*
I WANT ACCESS NOW!
*Will it be...YOUR script?
HEAR INTERVIEWS AND TALK WITH...LITERARY AGENTS!
Learn...
- WHO they represent!
- And WHY!
- What material they're reading!
- About getting that first sale or job...and...
- ...building it...into A CAREER!
- GET...ACCESS...BY PHONE...TO STUDIO EXECS!
- Hear the interview! Ask your questions! And Learn:
- What the major studios are looking for!
- What these same studios are MAKING!
- How the studio system works!
- All about studio "literary development"!
- Getting your script read at the studios!
- Remember, you'll always have the podcast or MP3, whether you're live on the call or not!
And don't forget: YOUR FELLOW WRITERS...
- How they broke in!
- Their "process"!
- How they write TV, feature films and sit coms!
- How they negotiate the "business" end of "show business!
- And get through "development"!
AND MORE:
- Interviews with DIRECTORS!
- Q & A with ACTORS!
- With MANAGERS and PRODUCER-MANAGERS!
- Indie FILMMAKERS!
- Entertainment LAWYERS!
- Participate LIVE on the call!
- Own and replay the Audio File FOREVER!
I WANT ACCESS NOW!