SELL A SCRIPT - How to Make Money Screenwriting
What you'll learn
- Learn how to sell a script to producers, directors, and production companies.
- Get your finished screenplay to buyers.
- Find Producers, Directors, Production Companies, Agents, and Managers who are interested in your script.
- Land meetings and talk with producers, directors, agents, and managers.
- Know the right things to say and do to move your script into production.
- Learn to how to do an effective query that will get a response.
- Make Money from your screenwriting and learn about residuals, contracts, and what to look out for so you can make passive income from your script.
- Increase the chances of getting your script made so it doesn't just sit on a shelf, but the script moves forward and you forward your screenwriting career.
- Meet with industry professional and grow your entertainment network.
- Be prepared for Screenwriting and Script Selling Success.
Requirements
- Have a finished screenplay. If you don't already, please look at my other courses.
Description
This screenwriting course focuses on SELLING AND MAKING MONEY from scripts and will show you how to sell your screenplay. We’ll go through all the steps, from finding people in the entertainment industry and production companies who can help produce your script to reviewing and signing contracts and getting paid for your writing.
With today’s technology, it doesn’t matter anymore if you live in Los Angeles, a different city in the US, or even a different country. This course will show you how to sell a script and be a screenwriter from anywhere.
This course is for anyone with a finished script (beginner or advanced), and that’s the only requirement. If you don’t have a finished script yet, please check out one of my other courses on script writing.
If you have a finished script and want to sell it and market it to Producers, Directors, Production Companies, Agents, and Managers, and make money from your script, then this is the course for you.
Each lesson will go over these:
How to Find Producers, Directors, Production Companies, Agents, and Managers
How to Contact Buyers and how to say and do all the right things so your script keeps moving forward.
Screenwriting Services that you could use to reach out to producers.
How do you follow up with buyers and what are the results to expect after they read your script?
How to be good in Meetings and Make a Good First Impression.
Signing and reviewing your contract and what to expect after you get paid.
Who this course is for:
- Beginner Screenwriters and screenwriters who need help marketing and selling a script.
Instructor
- 4.7 Instructor Rating
- 1,495 Reviews
- 5,657 Students
- 19 Courses
Jordan Imiola is a published writer and produced screenwriter with award-winning movies, TV shows, web series, and more. Jordan has over 25 IMDb Writing credits and has a track record of selling and optioning scripts. He's worked at 20th Century Fox, Disney, NBCUniversal, Marvista Entertainment, Untitled Entertainment, and Funny Buffalo Films and has ghostwritten several screenplays.
Find his two screenwriting podcasts on Spotify! Including SCREENWRITERS TALK SCREENWRITING and THE DEADLINE JUNKIES SCREENWRITING PODCAST.
During his junior year at Buffalo State University, he was the first student to be nominated for the WGA Michael Collyer Fellowship. Jordan is also the creator and showrunner of several successful comedy series, including "Monster Therapy," "Romantically Hopeless," and "Sports TV," which stars "Workaholics" Eric Griffin.
In 2020, Jordan wrote and directed the feature film, cult classic Zoom comedy, "Christmas Staycation." (Now streaming on Tubi and on DVD everywhere). He's also the creator of "The Deadline Junkies Screenwriting Podcast," where he and his two funny friends interview TV showrunners, staff writers, and successful blockbuster screenwriters.
He can write in any genre but specializes in comedy, family films, Christmas movies, action, and horror. He has written sketches and performed improv at Second City.
Noteworthy Achievements:
- Sold screenplays to producers, production companies, and directors
- Has produced award-winning feature films
- Has produced TV series and online series
- Has over 25 produced IMDb credits
- Nominated for the WGA Michael Collyer Fellowship
- Grand Prize Winner of the Screenplay Search Competition
- Showrunner and co-host of the Deadline Junkies Screenwriting Podcast