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!
Just relax! The best pitches are the ones that suck you into the story and the characters and leave the listener WANTING to read the script and find out what happens next. Set up the story, characters and world and leave space for questions!
Character driven stories! I'm looking for Half-Hour and 1 Hour Cable & Streaming series that hook viewers in to memorable characters. I'm also looking for Network Procedurals that have edge-of-your-seat weekly cases (open on what that "case" could be - legal, medical, or something we haven't seen yet!) paired with strong character stories that arc over the course of a season. On the feature side, I'm looking for strong thrillers and broad comedies - extra points if they are female focused.
Megan Espinoza was most recently the VP of Development at Gato Grande, an Amazon MGM Studios Company, where she oversaw a diverse slate of television and feature projects, covering English-language content aimed at the US market as well as Spanish-language content aimed at the Latin American and Spanish markets.
Espinoza is currently producing a feature based on the New York Times best-selling novel THE HOUSE IN THE PINES, and past credits include the upcoming Amazon MGM Studios Series VIGILANTE, based on the seminal comic book El Gato Negro, an upcoming Netflix feature from Oscar-nominated director Maite Alberdi, and the hit comedy VALIENDO MADRES available on Amazon Prime Mexico. Before her time at Gato Grande, Espinoza ran development for writer/director Ted Melfi’s Goldenlight Films, where she was involved in the development and production of both television and features. Espinoza started her career in development at WBTV, where she worked in both Comedy and Drama.
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.