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!
For me, pitching is about being well-rehearsed without sounding mechanical. It’s essential to research your audience, know your story inside and out, and present it in a way that feels natural—so that no question can throw you off. I also believe it’s important to understand your non-negotiables as a creator. That way, you can stay flexible with the material and collaborate with others to help the story grow, rather than rigidly clinging to your original vision.
I'm currently drawn to genre-bending projects—like PARASITE—that explore rich socio-political themes while remaining accessible to broad audiences. I’m also passionate about coming-of-age stories, whether rooted in adolescence or focused on late transformations, as well as dystopian narratives that reimagine urgent contemporary issues.
As a queer and trans storyteller, I’m interested in complex, layered portraits of humanity. At the same time, I resist work that feels overly discursive or reactionary—stories that seem driven more by political messaging than by nuanced, character-led narratives.
I'm not interested in high-concept stories that simply pair two contrasting characters without any real curiosity or intention behind what that contrast means. If the writer isn't engaged with the deeper realities or emotional stakes, the story tends to fall flat.
Marty Minnich was born in New Orleans in 1989, grew up in a small town in Idaho, and has lived in Mexico since 2012. He studied social work at the University of Oregon before earning a screenwriting degree from the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica in Mexico City.
He wrote the feature-length film THE GIGANTES, which premiered at the Guadalajara International Film Festival in 2021. In 2020, he adapted La Uruguaya, the novel by Argentine writer Pedro Mairal, into a screenplay—currently in development. That same year, he wrote and produced the podcast Nos Cayó el 20, which tells real stories of women during the pandemic, created for Mexico’s National Observatory on COVID-19 and Gender.
From 2021 to 2024, Marty worked as a development executive at La Corriente del Golfo, the production company founded by Diego Luna and Gael García Bernal. In 2024, he joined Pimienta Films (ROMA, PRAYERS FOR THE STOLEN) as part of their development team before accepting the role of Development Director – Mexico at The Immigrant, a premiere studio with offices in the U.S., Mexico, Spain, and Colombia, known for EL CHAPO as well as NO ONE WILL MISS US (Amazon Prime Mexico's top show in 2023.)
Marty currently oversees a slate of more than 30 projects—both fiction and nonfiction, spanning television and feature films. His trans identity and background in social work inform his work with a distinctive perspective and emotional sensitivity, particularly in character development.
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.