Submit your half-hour pilot script and receive a 30-minute story notes call with the executive you choose. You’ll receive specific suggestions on how to elevate your script's dialogue, structure, pacing, characterization, tone, and marketability.
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!
Please boil down your idea to the most streamlined, efficient, tight, punchy version you can muster. Easier said than done, I know!
Half-Hour Cable & Streaming Comedies and Dramedies, BIPOC stories set firmly in underrepresented genres (with BIPOC leads in Sci-Fi, Action, Western, Comedy, Horror, etc.), One-Hour Streaming Dramas. Would love to work with more Black female writers for all the genres I've listed. I LOVE anything that subverts familiar genre tropes!
Examples of shows I gravitate toward: THE BEAR, BETTER CALL SAUL, BLACK BIRD, BREAKING BAD, BUPKIS, FATAL ATTRACTION, I LOVE THAT FOR YOU, INVINCIBLE, THE MANDALORIAN, MAD MEN, MIRACLE WORKERS, PEACEMAKER, POKER FACE, RIGHTEOUS GEMSTONES, THE LAST OF US, THE SOPRANOS, STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS, SUCCESSION, WELCOME TO CHIPPENDALES, WE OWN THIS CITY, WINNING TIME, and of course, REACHER and FUBAR!
Animation (family-friendly)
Dystopian
Fantasy
Hallmark/Lifetime films or TV shows
Holiday
Musical
Romance or Rom Com
Spiritual
Supernatural
YA
Michael J. Gutierrez was born in England to a British mother and New Yorker father, so he said he was always raised to be a polite a**hole. Michael moved to Los Angeles and had barely learned how to tie his shoes (shoutout to the homie Mister Rogers) when his parents divorced. Michael’s father took him aside and bestowed upon the five-year-old the esteemed title of “Man of the House” and instructed him to look over his mother and sister. He took on that responsibility with no questions asked. After graduating film school at Cal State LA, Michael was a finalist in the Disney/ABC, NBC and Universal Animation writing fellowship programs. He was an inaugural fellow in the Circle of Confusion Writer Discovery program and wrote on seasons 1 and 2 of Netflix’s Fubar and seasons 2 and 3 of Amazon’s Reacher, respectively, where he was promoted from a Staff Writer to Story Editor.
After registering, you will receive instructions on how to submit your material in your order confirmation email. After submitting your material, please allow at least 3-4 weeks to receive proposed times for scheduling your call with the exec.
**Please note half-hour pilot consultation material is limited to 37 pages maximum.
Be sure to familiarize yourself with Roadmap's Code of Conduct.
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.