Written for both new and experienced writers, this comprehensive marketing guide offers advice and tips needed by writers to succeed in the film and television industries. Focusing on the business of writing, it gives writers the unabashed truth about the film industry, and advice on how to get scripts to the gatekeepers of the studios and read by agents. Comprehensive listings of contests, fellowships, grants, and development opportunities from an industry expert provide specific information on securing a healthy writing career. This extensive resource also includes guidelines regarding copyrights, sources for emergency funds, a listing of online resources, information on writers' colonies and retreats, and more.
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Some how-to books for writers offer hints about plotting, character design, dialogue, and other specific aspects of translating ideas into stories. Haddad, a studio story analyst and scriptwriter, leaves all that creative stuff to us. Let's assume, he says, that you have a finished script you want to sell. How do you do that? How do you get somebody to read the darn thing? The book has three broad sections (or acts, in movie lingo): contests, career opportunities, and resources. The first section is a list of screenwriting contests: who runs them, how much it costs to enter, and so on. Section two offers a state-by-state list of agents, managers, and production companies. The third section describes the various organizations--colonies, retreats, public agencies, and online resources--available to a screenwriter. The book also has a good glossary, to bring the reader up to speed on terms he or she needs to know (such as sublim, zip pan, and brad). A useful if unadorned resource guide for the screenwriter with product to peddle. David Pitt
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"A source book that should have been published long ago." -- Hollywood Inside Syndicate
"Has all the contacts a budding screenwriter needs all organized into one handy reference." -- WritersWrite.com
"Puts useful information into the hands of screenwriters." -- Library Journal
"Has all the contacts a budding screenwriter needs all organized into one handy reference." -- WritersWrite.com
"Puts useful information into the hands of screenwriters." -- Library Journal
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If you're an aspiring screenwriter, there is no more comprehensive list of markets than in this book. Nowhere else are they gathered in one place. Producers, agents, managers, and contests. If you have a screenplay and want to sell it, you need this book.
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SCREENPLAY CONTESTS offer everything from a first-look deal at a studio to more than $5 million in Cash prizes. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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SCREENPLAY CONTESTS offer everything from a first-look deal at a studio to more than $5 million in Cash prizes. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
screenwriting competition, screenplay competition, screenwriting contest, screenplay contest, screenwriting software, entry script, screenwriting program, winning script, winning screenplays, script consultant, literary agency, short script Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Los Angeles, Fax Credits, Fax Web, New York, Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, Phone Web, Wilshire Blvd, Fax E-mail, Phone Literary, Fax Literary, Sunset Blvd, Phone Credits, Ventura Blvd, Melrose Ave, Culver City, Washington Blvd, Universal City, Talent Agency, Phone E-mail, Olympic Blvd, Application Fee, Studio City, Warner Blvd, West Hollywood New!
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