If readers aren’t grabbed by your story within the first 15 pages, they’re more likely to stop reading and put the script in the No pile. Submit the first 15 pages of your pilot or feature and receive 15 minutes of story notes during the feedback roundtable as part of the Diversity Fellowship process. This opportunity is limited to 6 Diversity Fellowship candidates, first come first served, but all candidates are encouraged to attend the group session in order to gain insight from the feedback. This will help you create a strong opening/Act One to strengthen your script submission for the Diversity Fellowship, and to help ensure gate keepers and execs stay engaged.
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MARISA MARTINEZ MARQUEZ is a proud Filipina American born and bred in SacTown. Playwright turned screenwriter, her focus on the complications of being Asian while American earned her multiple grants, publications, and awards, including being named 100 Most Influential Filipino Women during her seventeen years in NYC. Her emphasis on representation as a genre writer highlights diverse female leads with supernatural problems who endeavor to do good when there are only bad options.
Marquez is a Roadmap Grand Prize Winner–Coletta Preacely-Garcia Diversity Fellowship and an Unlock Her Potential mentee of Emmy-nominated executive producer Francie Calfo. Along with placing in The Writers Lab, ScreenCraft, PAGE and the Black List & WIF Episodic Lab, her supernatural drama THIRST, about a Filipina teen who inherits the ability to drain water from the living, is on Coverfly’s The Red List. Her series MIND THE GAP, a top BBC Comedy Writers Room contender developed while attending MetFilm School in England, is currently set up with a London based team. Marquez splits her time between LA and Portland, OR where she co-hosts the Paranormal POC Podcast covering the supernatural to the extraterrestrial from the BIPOC diaspora.
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