Work one-on-one with an executive at mutually agreed upon times around your schedule. To start, you'll have a 15-minute strategy call with your executive to get the lay of the land for the month. Then, you’ll have email access to your executive throughout, plus four one-hour story notes sessions. Work on a single screenplay or multiple scripts plus get additional notes on your pitch, brand strategy, and career advice - work your mentorship to its fullest potential!
I love a personal connection to a story. You don't need to necessarily pull from your own life, but there should be something about the story, characters, or world that drew you as the writer in. From there, you can build the basis of why I as the buyer should care about this project, and moreover why it shouldn't just feel like another box on the development slate. Executives are really busy, often times juggling dozens of projects at once, so your pitch needs to stand out as something they'd be willing to put in overtime for. The best pitches I've heard over the years didn't just have a hook, they had an emotional center that made me want to hear more.
Any and all genres! I have helped build companies with a wide range of outputs, including films, TV shows, and documentaries in all genres. With this in mind, I love to constantly work on something different, rather than falling into one lane or another. Realistically, many films and shows that are made today are a blend of two or more genres. Most recently I balanced a coming-of-age TV show with a documentary on the deathcare industry. Believe it or not, working on each of these really helped with the other!
Brandon Loureiro is a film and television executive with stops at Jonah Hill's Strong Baby Productions, Paramount Pictures, Lionsgate, DreamWorks Animation, and Fox. His credits include OVERCOMPENSATING (A24/Amazon, upcoming), THE MORTICIAN (HBO, upcoming), Y2K (A24), YOU PEOPLE (Netflix #1, 92.4M views), THIS PLACE RULES (Max, 100% Rotten Tomatoes), STUTZ (Netflix, 96% RT), and PLAYING WITH FIRE ($69M WWBO). He has also taught at various institutions including New York University and the University of California, Los Angeles. Brandon holds an Ed.D. from the University of Louisiana at Monroe, an MBA from the University of Arizona, and a BA in Communication from the University of Southern California. He also completed the Professional Program in Producing at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Private Month Mentorship
Each month mentorship kicks off with a preliminary 15-min. call to set expectations and lay out strategy for the month. Writer will have email access to the executive plus 4x one-hour consultations with the exec. Exec will read up to 4 scripts in one month (different drafts of the same script or 4 different scripts) and conduct 4x one-hour story notes calls. Calls can also include feedback on your pitch, branding, or career strategy.
If you pay with the deposit/payment plan, your second half will be due the 2nd week of the Mentorship. If you need a different type of payment plan, email dorian@roadmapwriters.com.
**Please note feature screenplays are limited to 120 pages maximum. Please contact terra@roadmapwriters.com for pricing on a Month Mentorship on screenplays exceeding 120 pages.
What To Expect
After registering, you will receive an automatic Order Confirmation email. Then Roadmap's Director of Consultations, Terra Joy, will get your mentor looped in with you! If you do not hear from Terra or the exec within 3 days of registering, feel free to email terra@roadmapwriters.com for an update.
Before starting your Month Mentorship, please ensure you are familiar with our Code of Conduct.
Cancellation Policy: You may cancel your registration for a refund or Roadmap gift card if you have not yet submitted your material for review. However, once your material has been received, your registration cannot be canceled. Having revised material or a desire to retroactively apply a discount or gift card code are not grounds for cancellation, refunds, or gift card credit. Once your material has been submitted, the only acceptable grounds for cancellation and a refund or gift card credit is an unforeseen, ongoing emergency on the part of either the writer or the exec resulting in more than 6 weeks without any scheduling update from the exec via direct contact or Roadmap, or a sudden change in the exec's ongoing availability. In the instance of an irreconcilable scheduling issue, the writer may still receive a written feedback report from the exec. In this case, the writer is not entitled to a refund or gift card credit as the exec has read the submitted material and provided written feedback in lieu of the call.