Mini Coverage - Feature Film
What is Coverage?
Power players in Hollywood do not have the time to read every submitted screenplay from cover to cover. There just aren't enough hours in the day. To allow them to do their job effectively, they have a staff of experience professionals who read submissions for a living, who analyze story, structure, characters, plot, genre and marketability along with a recommendation as to whether the project is ready for serious consideration.
Receive a coveted Recommend and your script rockets up the food chain, receive a Pass and it's the end of the line. Coverage is, in essence, the ultimate Hollywood score card, the document that can determine if your script moves forward or gets dumped in the reject pile.
About Mini Coverage
Our Mini Coverage provides 2-3 pages of comprehensive analysis that point out in detail the Strengths and Weaknesses of your script,
starting with a high-level analyis of the project and then drilling down into specific areas that work and those that need improvement
before your script will be ready for serious consideration.
If you want to know where you stand, all for a cost-effective price, our Mini Coverage is right for you.
Who does our Coverage?
Our staff of professional Story Analysts read screenplays for a living for some of the biggest Talent Agencies and Production Companies in Hollywood. They understand structure, they understand character, they know what the marketplace is looking for. Best of all their analysis is trusted by agents, managers and producers at the highest level. These are the real gatekeepers with their hands on the lever of the drawbridge that defends the castle we call Hollywood, and they are ready to let you know exactly where your script stands, from what works to what still needs improvement.
Our Professional Analysts
David Rothley
Screenwriter, Story Analyst
David's Talentville coverage (4)
David earned MFAs in screenwriting from USC and in creative writing - fiction from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. After grad school, he ran the story department at Relativity Media before working as an in-house staff writer for film, TV and digital media at VFX studio Digital Domain. David' s original screenplay THE DRYLINE is set up at Sony/Columbia Pictures with Joel Silver (Die Hard, Lethal Weapon, Sherlock Holmes) producing. Mr. Silver is also producing David's screenplay COYOTE. He is currently writing a feature project with Academy Award-winning filmmaker Mark Sanger. David is a member of the WGA-West.
Michael Sweeney
Story Analyst
I am a professional story analyst with nearly a decade of experience in the development of creative projects.
I believe in a constructive and collaborative approach to story analysis, that encourages growth and development. Keeping you in the driver's seat of your own story supersedes all else.
I offer various script coverage packages for full and completed works. Combining a candid grading system based on industry standards with an extensive analysis of your story, I use question based analysis to maintain the client-first approach that allows you to dictate the direction of your project from here.
I bring with me insight from my experiences working as the first line of defense at companies such as Netflix, Constantin Film, & 101 Studios, as well as competitions like The Gauntlet, Premium Screenplay, & The Austin Film Festival
Together, we can ensure that your story becomes the fully realized version of what it was always meant to be, and accurately bring your vision to life.
Brian Smith
Screenwriter, Script Consultant, Story Analyst
After receiving my MFA from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, I started in the entertainment industry at Walt Disney Feature Animation and worked steadily in the entertainment industry for 25 years for some of the biggest studios and on some of the biggest projects in cinema history. I have been. Screenplay consultant for 2 decades and I have evaluated more than 3,000 screenplays.
Ross Martin
Screenwriter, Script Consultant, Director
Grew up in NY. Moved to LA in '92. Attended Columbia College-Hollywood film school '94-'95. Produced, co-wrote, and co-directed the feature film, "Rubbernecking." Edited "War of the Worlds 2: The Next Wave" for The Asylum. Founder and festival director of the Social Media Film Festival. I read screenplays and write coverage for the Austin Film Festival.
Lawrence Stern
Screenwriter, Script Consultant, Story Analyst
Lawrence's Talentville coverage (14)
Lawrence is an award-winning writer, repped in Los Angeles at Innovative Artists. He has had five screenplays optioned and been hired for many independent writing and rewriting projects. He currently works for UTA as a script analyst and also in a similar capacity for the new company ScriptHop/The Gauntlet. Plus, he's worked in development in the past - and has taught English and writing on the high school and college levels.
Originally from Washington DC and NYC, he attended Brown University (BA degree in Theater) and received his MFA degree in writing from UCLA School of Theater, Film, and TV - Summa Cum Laude. Currently, he has one film project - the Samuel Goldwyn Award-winning "Intensive Care" (also a finalist for the Sundance Writing Lab and the Sundance Producers Lab) - that is far along in the development process (he is the writer and one of the two lead producers) and a second film project recently optioned called "The Last Bombshell" that is just starting to be packaged (and has placed highly in 13 competitions already - winning one of them). He is also an accomplished pianist/singer/songwriter and has an extensive acting background as well.
Helping you Market your Project
If your script gets high marks from our coverage staff, we will be more than happy to circulate the coverage to our producing partners as well as others in the Industry we feel may have an interest in your project. We want success stories, we want to be involved, we want to help your project find a home that gives it the best chance at getting optioned or produced. Convince us your script is a contender, and we will do what we can to convince our Industry friends and contacts that it is worthy of consideration. After all, that is what it is all about.
