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!
Start off with the teaser of the pilot (or first few minutes of the feature), then introduce me to the characters/world, then where you see the characters going next, and finally the "why now" (why is there an audience for this series or feature and why do they need it now)
Anything that is fun, elevated, and feel-good. The world looks to entertainment now more than ever to give us a spark of joy during the unceratainties of the world and I would love to read something that will make audiences smile.
Horror or post-apocalyptic or tonally dark dramas
Nelson Jimenez is a freelance consultant and a former Director of Scripted Programming at The CW Network. He has contributed to developing over 90 projects and shepherding the creative on numerous current series, co-productions, and features.
His six years at The CW included coverage of the final season of DC's SUPERMAN & LOIS, Supernatural spin-off THE WINCHESTERS, SHERLOCK & DAUGHTER (starring David Thewlis), JOAN (starring Sophie Turner), GOOD COP/BAD COP (starring Leighton Meester), SULLIVAN'S CROSSING, and SIGHT UNSEEN. He also led the family comedy block coverage - CHILDREN RUIN EVERYTHING, RUN THE BURBS, SON OF A CRITCH and the critically-acclaimed EVERYONE ELSE BURNS. In addition, he helped launch the creative of procedural comedy WILD CARDS, THE LIBRARIANS: THE NEXT CHAPTER, and a slate of six romantic comedy features inspired by Harlequin novels.
Prior to his time as a network executive, he spent three years at CAA. There, he was a part of the Multicultural Business Development team, where he led project building for the company's DEI initiatives, including advocating for clients across the Television Lit/Talent spaces and was part of the hosting team behind the annual Amplify conference. Nelson is a graduate of The University of Texas at Austin, where he earned a B.S. in Radio-Television-Film and Corporate Communication.
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.