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How To Sell Your Screenplay

How To Respond To Screenwriting Leads

There are a variety of places that you can find directors, producers, and production companies looking to hire screenwriters. For instance, our own SYS Select leads, InkTip, Mandy.com and even…

How To Sell Your Screenplay

How To Become A Screenwriter

Recently screenwriters have been asking me if query letters really work as a strategy to break into Hollywood. Query letters have been such a big part of my career, it…

Videos

Video: How To Build A Database Of Agents To Send Your Query Letter To

In this video I show you exactly how to build a database of agents to send you query letter to. This process can work for for building a database of…

Screenwriting FAQ

Producers tell me to get an agent, and agents won’t read my stuff – How can I start my career?

Quite often I get emails from people who say something like this: “I sent a query letter to some producers but they told me they don’t read unsolicited material and…

How To Sell Your Screenplay

What to Expect From Your Query Letters

So now you’ve written a great log line for your script, crafted a professional query letter pitching your screenplay, built a database of agents, managers, and producers, and started to…

Screenwriting FAQ

Submitting your material to production companies

I got these questions recently: “I have 115 page completed, professional script that I want to pitch, however 1) should the query letter be on an entertainment lawyers letterhead, 2)…

Screenwriting FAQ

Should I mail a query letter to a producers home?

I got this question recently. “A well known producer lives in my area and I know his home address. He has an interest in the local area and my script…

Screenwriting FAQ

Following up with agents who pass on your screenplay query letter

I got this question recently: I could really use your advice. You did an agent blast for my horror screenplay yesterday, and I have gotten a bunch of emails asking…

Screenwriting FAQ

Production companies are telling me they do not take unsolicted material

I got this question recently: “I bought the Hollywood Directory and wrote to 100 producers, none of them asked for my story because they do not accept unsolicited material. How…

Screenwriting FAQ

Is it bad form to send multiple query letters to agents within the same company?

I got this question recently: “Is it bad form to send multiple query letters to agents within the same company?” I posed this question to Script Doctor Eric who has…

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SYS Services to Help Screenwriters

  • SYSs Six-Figure Screenplay Contest
  • SYS's Script Analysis Service
  • SYS's From Concept to Completion Screenwriting Course

Screenplay Contests:

  • SYS's Six-Figure Screenplay Contest
  • Wondering which contests to enter? Check out our list of recommended screenplay contests.

The Budget List

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  • The best low budget, unproduced screenplays of 2021
  • The best low budget, unproduced screenplays of 2020
  • The best low budget, unproduced screenplays of 2019
  • The best low budget, unproduced screenplays of 2018
  • The best low budget, unproduced screenplays of 2017

Ashley Scott Meyers’ Films

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Everything You Need To Know To Sell Your Screenplay

  • Selling Your Screenplay (in a nutshell)
  • How do you protect your work? Screenplay copyrights and WGA registration
  • Writing A Screenplay Logline
  • How to write a professional query letter for your screenplay
  • Building a Database of Agents, Managers and Producers
  • Sending Your Screenplay Query Letter to Your Database of Contacts
  • What to Expect From Your Query Letters
  • How do you get an agent for your screenplay? (And why you don’t need one!)
  • Looking for a script consultant?
  • Questions about Screenplay format?
  • Screenwriting Classes
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Podcast Transcripts

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