Dr. AY Heath's Lounge Discussions

Hi Eon C. Rambally - thank you so much for joining yesterday and for you kind words on the summit. Each incentive is written with different legislative rules and there may be some areas who include elements that could be considered "anthropological", or at least culturally relevant. Most film commissions or governement agencies that oversee incentive programs will have all of that in theiur websites.

Hi Nadean Stone - that's a great question. In my experience, having a screenplay is always best as the vision and "take" for the film is important for producers, directors and actors to see. However, there are compnaies who option the rights to books all the time and then take over development. Is you goal to ultimately write the film version of your book yourself?

Hi Eugene Mandelcorn - Stage 32 has courses on distribution that can extremely helpful. You can search the education landing page for distribution courses. I'll recommend one here taught by John Reiss, who is a fabulous resource: https://www.stage32.com/education/products/creating-a-distribution-and-m...

Thank you, Sam Sokolow for responding to my questions! I really enjoyed the panel and will watch the webinar you suggested. You have some great resources, and I appreciate the support you give us working to break in. Thanks again! ~ Angel

Sam Sokolow, thanks for the reply and answer! all part of subjects for good dialogue and discussions. Again a great summit and congratulations to all, best regards for the season and beyond!

Sent a letter to CAA once asking if they had any agents who were accepting screenplay submissions. I didn't send a synopsis of my work, no pages, no nothing besides "are you accepting submissions?" They sent my letter back to me with a notice telling me of their "no solicitations" policy and "for this reason we are returning your materials to you". Whoever opened my letter at CAA lacked the shred of intelligence necessary to realize that I didn't include any materials. I was asking if they were accepting submissions and got the aforementioned condescending response in lieu of more professional behavior.

This is a good questions. I really appreciate the great feedback.

Make comic books, build your audience, and let the agents find you.

They don't need to open your query. They just send a "No Solicitations" response automatically. They don't know you.

I can't speak to getting an agent as a screenwriter. I sort of gave up on that dream years ago. They way I got my screenwriting career to start moving was to seek out avenues that were unconventional. I went into corporate marketing, which allowed me to write and produce commercials and advertisements. I used this opportunity to write and produce some shorts. This led me to get scouted to write an animated series for a company that wanted to do unconventional marketing. I still don't have an agent, but I do have several commercials, multiple produced animated episodes, and a lot of other paid writing on my resume by taking this route.

A couple years back, I published a blog post about my journey on this topic on the Stage 32 blog, but the search function isn't working properly, so I can't find the link right now. But if you are able to search my name, it should come up.