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!
Take risks.
Elevated Hybrid & Non-Fiction Feature Films, POV storytelling
True Stories
Prestige Biographical & Historical Dramas
Character-Driven Dark Comedies & Satires
Half-Hour Episodic Comedies & Premium TV Pilots
High-Concept Short Films & Episodic Proof-of-Concepts
Meta-Narrative & Self-Reflexive Avant-Garde Scripts
Independent Film Packaging & International Circuit Strategy
Satire
Rom-Coms
Original Stories
Raw, voice-driven memoirs exploring trauma and addiction
Prestige biographical non-fiction and historical manuscripts
Darkly comedic, satirical, and contemporary fiction novels
High-concept narrative non-fiction with strong book-to-screen potential
Experimental, meta-textual, and genre-bending prose
Biographical properties primed for strategic packaging
Horror.
Janaé Rachel Ballot is a Los Angeles-based filmmaker, screenwriter, and development strategist specializing in project packaging, cross-genre structure, and marketplace viability. Raised in an industry family with deep Hollywood roots, she brings an insider understanding of studio dynamics, network expectations, and auteur brand building to her consultation work. Janaé provides writers with actionable, executive-level notes. She equips creators with the exact structural tools and competitive leverage needed to break through the noise.
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.