I am currently working on selling my screenplay No Ordinary Love to a producer and/or production company.As I continue to study and learn more about the entire screenplay selling process I was fortunate enough to come across a very informative article by screenwriter Ashley Scott Meyers.
Here’s an excerpt from his article:
“Many of the trade publications (The Hollywood reporter, Daily variety, Backstage West) will often have ads in them placed by producers or directors seeking screenplays. Over the last few years I’ve noticed that there are fewer and fewer of these sorts of ads in the trades as they have moved to Craig’s List. Read my post about submitting to Craig’s List. While you do have to be very careful, it is a great resource for writers, especially beginning writers. I recently optioned a script to a producer I met on Craig’s List so it can be done.
I actually began my screenwriter career by submitting to Reader’s Digest Writer’s Market. They have a section for screenwriters and have filtered the list a bit so that most of the listed production companies will read scripts by unproduced writers.
The Hollywood Creative Directory (HCD) is a comprehensive list of every single production company in the United States with addresses, phone and fax numbers, and sometimes email addresses. While this isn’t an easy road I have optioned screenplays through unsolicited submissions this way. It’s going to require a lot of letter writing, faxing, emailing, and phone calls, but if you do it on a large enough scale you will eventually get some of these companies to read your material and hopefully option it from you. There’s well over 2000 companies listed so you have plenty of places to submit.”
Ashley’s words of wisdom are helping me to launch an effective and professional submission campaign to sell my screenplay. I highly recommend that you visit his website and read his article How To Sell Your Screenplay (in a nutshell).
