Three Steps to a Killer Query Letter

Marvin Acuna from the Business Of Show Institute lists three basic guidelines to consider when crafting your next query letter: 1) KNOW YOUR MARKET Targeting CAA or any of the top-tier literary representatives as an emerging writer is simply the wrong strategy. They are shaping careers, not inventing them. They are elevating a career, not…

Tackling The Perfect Query Letter

Although there are no rules to writing query letters, here are some general suggestions by Christopher Lockhart, Story Analyst from William Morris Endeavor Agency: Do not be longwinded.  Keep your letter short and make your point quickly. The reader should fully comprehend your pitch with just a glance of the page. If the reader has…

How Dare They Pass On Your Film Script

Here are some thoughts from Screenwriting U about what it really means if your script gets a pass. Are you a bad person? Are you a worthless writer? In reality, production companies pass on most of the scripts that come to them.  They are all looking for the diamond that will be the next big…

21 Platforming Strategies For Your Screenwriting Career

Here are extracts from an article by David Trottier I’d like to share with you. In the film marketing business, if you lack resources but have a winner, you platform that winner by showing it to one or two markets at a time and letting it accumulate positive reviews. In other words, you build momentum….