SCREENPLAY CONSULTANT
With over 15 years of professional screenwriting experience and 20 screenplay options, I've been hired to write multiple feature films and have sold dozens of spec scripts. I've also been hired to write multiple pilots, including one that was sold to ABC for mid six figures.
I've had scripts appear on the Black List and have written and developed projects with such directors as Antione Fuqua, John Carpenter, Abel Ferrara and Dario Argento as well as Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive) and producer Allison Shearmur (Star Wars, The Hunger Games).
My expertise is not only in screenwriting but also in structuring scripts so that they will appeal to buyers, producers, directors and actors.
PRODUCTION CONSULTANT
I've been a producer on over 30 million dollars of completed and distributed films.
Over the past two decades, I've seen that there are two types of producers—those that understand the business side of films, recoup their investments and even make profits and those that jump in without the proper understanding of the possible pitfalls. The latter group end up losing investors' money and are often exploited by more experienced distributors and producers. I can guide you through every step of how to approach investors, including:
- Creating film investment decks
- Understanding chain of title and screenplay rights as well as options vs. purchases
- Knowing how to make offers to name actors
- Dealing with unions
- Determining whether a film should be SAG or non-SAG
- Figuring out how to apply and receive tax credits and rebates
- Learning to get distribution and understand distributors fees
- Understanding the difference between production insurance and E&O
- Knowing how investors are paid back and in what order as well as whether or not you need to pay residuals
- Showing investors how they can write off their investment
These are just a few of the multitude of issues you need to understand before we even discuss the physical production of the film and post production. It will make the difference between you making or losing money on your film.