Need advice on what to do after finishing your script? Want help with branding, advice on how to best position your material to intrigue a rep or producer, or what project from your list of loglines to focus on next? Submit your full script, your bio, AND a one-pager of loglines for your drafted and soon to be drafted screenplays. Your chosen exec will read this material prior to your one-hour notes and strategy session. You’ll not only discuss story notes, but also what your next steps should be based on your bio, loglines, and goals.
MARKETING BONUS! If you receive a rating of Excellent or Virtually Flawless in at least four out of five categories (Logline and Formatting/Ease of Reading excluded) on your consultation feedback report, we'll do one round of personalized marketing to 5 execs for this screenplay for free!
Questions? Email terra@roadmapwriters.com
TV is storytelling meant to be consumed in your home, and as such, I'm always going to lead character first. Make me understand them, and I'll go on as high concept a journey as you want to take me on.
I’m driven by compelling characters regardless of the genre in which they inhabit. I'm currently drawn to television that feels molded from the classic storytelling models as well as shows that aren't afraid to inhabit multiple tonal spaces. Widow's Bay comes to mind as a form of the latter, while Adults serves as a model for the former. History told through a contemporary lens (such as NatGeo's A SMALL LIGHT) and genre that refracts back on what it means to live today will always draw an interest.
Speculative literary fiction angled towards crafting a world that is not our own to attempt to make sense of our own. To that end, thrillers with a nod towards today's reality will always have space, as will dramas, comedies, and dramedies that find the beauty in the mundane, giving us fully-realized character we think we can know to watch how they choose to do things.
Matt Derr currently serves as a development consultant across film and television, working closely with writers on projects in development and not yet announced. He was most recently an executive in the Scripted Television department for Keshet Studios, utilizing Keshet's international footprint to service a Universal Television first look and independent studio mandates. Credits across broadcast television and streaming/premium platforms include ECHO 3 (Apple), SMALL LIGHT (Nat Geo), THE MISSING (Peacock), and LA BREA (NBC).
Prior to joining Keshet, Matt worked in comedy at HBO on such shows as LOOKING, PROJECT GREENLIGHT, CRASHING, and THE COMEBACK, while collaborating alongside colleagues on a slate of comedic projects.
Matt's career began in talent management at MGMT. Entertainment, working alongside the likes of Keira Knightley, Helena Bonham Carter, and Haley Bennett, coordinating professional efforts and covering incoming submissions, playing an instrumental part in Keira Knightley's work in IMITATION GAME.
After registering, you will receive instructions on how to submit your material in your order confirmation email. Please be sure to select Career Coaching as your consultation type on your material submission form, so that you are able to submit all supplemental materials on the same form. Provide your script, writer bio, and one-pager of loglines (to include Title, Format, Genre, and Comps with each logline). Be sure to note which loglines are for already drafted screenplays, and which are for scripts that have yet to be completed.
After submitting your material, please allow about 3-4 weeks to receive proposed times for scheduling your call with the exec. If you haven't heard from your exec by the 3-4 week mark about scheduling, please email terra@roadmapwriters.com so we know to check in with them on your behalf about their proposed dates/ETA for you.
**Please note feature screenplays are limited to 120 pages maximum, hour pilots 65 pages maximum, and single-cam half-hour pilots 35 pages maximum. Please contact terra@roadmapwriters.com for pricing on a consultation for a screenplay exceeding these page limits.
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Questions? Email terra@roadmapwriters.com
MARKETING BONUS! If you receive a rating of Excellent or Virtually Flawless in at least four out of five categories (Logline and Formatting/Ease of Reading are excluded) on your consultation feedback report, we'll do one round of personalized marketing to execs (up to 5) for this screenplay for free!
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 by Roadmap, 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.