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I was able to have a few meetings, and signed with a management company. ' The competition has been very helpful because my finalist placement gave me the confidence to reach out to managers, and to friends who could recommend me to managers, to help take the next step in my career. And while I ended up with a lot of redlines on my spreadsheet, I’m getting more and more blues and that keeps me going. In 2020, I applied to about 200 different opportunities in total. I mark rejections in red, wins and finalist placements in blue. I now keep an Excel spreadsheet of contests, jobs, festivals, and opportunities that I apply to. But in the process, I learned a lot about what the industry is looking for. I didn’t have a steady job for the first two years I lived here and was just scraping by on savings and odd gigs.

There were times when I felt insane for giving up a good job back home and moving here, where I knew nobody. My first year in LA, I submitted to a bunch of jobs, fellowships, contests, and film festivals, only to get nothing but rejections. 'Every time you get a “no,” it stings a little.

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Rob Salerno Signed with a literary manager at Code Entertainment.Ĭongratulations to 2021 ScreenCraft TV Pilot Script Competition Finalist, Rob Salerno, who signed with a literary manager at Code Entertainment. But he was super passionate, sincere and confident that the show would sell and just wanted to help out in any way he could.' He’d been an instrumental figure in so many of the shows that we’d grown up with and been inspired by –– FREAKS AND GEEKS, BIG LOVE, CARNIVALE –– that to hear he wanted to be involved in our project was unreal. David Knoller expressed an interest in coming on board the project right at the start of our very first general meeting, which was amazing but also very surreal and completely caught us off-guard. Neha Dutta and Tom Devers and the whole ScreenCraft team have been so supportive and encouraging –– setting up general meetings for us with David Knoller and Crystal Holt from AMC. James: Winning the competition has been enormously helpful to us in terms of gaining exposure for the project and providing us with networking opportunities. And guess what? He did! He flew out two weeks later, pitched me American Alligator, and we just got started on that. I was at a really low ebb, and so my wife called James and told him he should come over to California and that he and I should write something together. I sent it to him, he read it, and told me what I already knew – that it was good but far too angry and sad to ever be commercial. I wrote a script out of that pain and realised I had no-one to send it to who would care, other than my dear old friend James back in England. My mother and father had both just passed away and basically nothing seemed to be going right. It was the summer of 2019, I hadn’t worked as an actor in two years and I was thirty-two. 'Chris: The funny thing is, AMERICAN ALLIGATOR actually came about precisely because I did want to quit. We'll select a Top 10 from this year's pool of Finalists who will receive written feedback from one of this year's industry jury members.Ĭhris Webster & James King Chris Webster & James King optioned their pilot AMERICAN ALLIGATOR to executive producer + showrunner, David Knoller, who they met as one of the jurors of the competition.Īfter winning the 2021 ScreenCraft Pilot Competition, Chris Webster & James King optioned their pilot AMERICAN ALLIGATOR to executive producer + showrunner, David Knoller, who they met as one of the jurors of the competition. They will help their chosen writers develop their craft and guide them toward career success in their writing journey. Each of these mentors will select one Grand Prize writer to mentor. They have created and served as EP on shows like PEN15 and THE HANDMAID’S TALE, have overall deals with major studios like Universal, and have written for NBC, Netflix, and countless other streamers, networks, and series. This year’s mentors are three incredible showrunners: one comedy, one broadcast drama, and one premium cable drama. Winners and finalists have signed with 3Arts, Management 360, CAA, Verve, Zero Gravity, and more. It's one of our most successful competitions, period.

Our TV Competition has a history of getting writers signed, staffed, and have helped them land development deals for their own projects.