This session format is available only to writers in our Top Tier Program.
This session includes 2 x 30 minute Zoom meetings.
In the first meeting, the exec will review the feature script OR pilot and bible (if provided) and meet with the writer via Zoom for 30 minutes to provide rewrite notes.
The writer will rewrite their script with the markup switch on and send it back to the exec to read and then meet with the exec via Zoom for a second 30 minutes to receive further feedback on their script.
Relationships first and foremost. They tie into character, but characters are meaning less if they have no connection to other people. So how the characters are connect to others and where the inherent dramatic tension can be mined in that.
Also ideally anything we make should be about something. Not what's happening but what it's about. So for example, BREAKING BAD. If I asked what that is about, most people would say that it's about a high school chemistry teacher that becomes a drug dealer. But that's what's happening not what it's about.
It's about a guy who finds out he's terminally ill and needs to find a way to provide for his family. That core universal need to provide for the people he cares about is why we go along on that journey. Every great show or film has that buried at the center.
Commercial forward grounded fair with elements of sci-fi, fantasy or magical realism.
In addition soapy and emotional propulsive story telling with a lot of twists.
Pieces that are designed not to have commercial value and be more think pieces or purely artistic films.
I believe our business has always laid in the space between art and commerce. That is especially true in this moment. So art for arts sake is hard at the moment.
Jade-Addon Hall is a television executive and independent producer most recently serving as VP of Drama Development at 20th Television where he developed primarily for Disney+, HULU, ONYX, FX, ABC and sold shows to other streaming platforms, including Netflix.
Prior to 20th at Lionsgate TV, he oversaw THE POWER UNIVERSE, RUN THE WORLD, STEP UP, WELCOME TO FLATCH and HEELS. Jade is also known for his previous work at BET, helping to launch BET+, and shepherding multiple shows including TWENTIES, with Lena Waithe and the critical hit AVERAGE JOE now on Paramount+. He has also developed multiple series at Disney Channel and Disney XD.
Most recently he developed and produced the vertical drama FALLEN ANGEL directed by Rel Howrey and starring NE-YO for Cash Kingdom Entertainment in partnership with vertical platform Flareflow.
Hailing from Hillside, NJ, he is a proud graduate of Syracuse University, holding a BA in Psychology and an MFA in Television Radio and Film. In 2021 he was named Man of the Year by the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of Los Angeles, raising a quarter of a million dollars for cancer survivors and research.
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