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!
Anyone looking for representation that comes from a marginalized and/or underrepresented identity or identities who wants to work in the animation industry.
Samantha Goff is an animation industry Manager, Recruiter, Outreach Specialist, DEI Advocate, and Career Development Coach. Self-proclaimed "animation activist," Sam currently works as a Talent Manager with Fourth Wall Management in the animation division.
After achieving a B.A. in Animation from the top-rated Loyola Marymount University School of Film and Television, she worked in animation production - both features and television - with Dreamworks Animation. There she worked on many notable titles such as SPIRIT: RIDING FREE, FAST & FURIOUS: SPY RACERS, and THE BAD GUYS.
After her time working as an animation production professional, Sam transitioned to the Outreach & Engagement department with Netflix’s fledgling (at the time) animation studio. At Netflix she pioneered a mentorship program targeted at uplifting BIPOC talent known as the Foundations Program, helped manage the Early Career Trainee Program in the early career storyboarding and visual development disciplines, and created an internal DEI celebration known as the Unlearning Series.
Today, Sam works at Fourth Wall Management where she helps manage the careers of writers, directors, story artists, and visual development artists. As a manager, she is a reverse recruiter, career coach, producer, and sometimes even a therapist. Outside of her day job, Sam is a mentor and educator in the animation world. She regularly volunteers her time to mentor with organizations like BRIC and Women in Animation. In her speaking engagements, Sam specializes in helping those looking to break into the industry make their applications “recruiter friendly”. She teaches her personal animation DEI activism course, Animated Perspectives, at her alma mater- Loyola Marymount University. She is also teaching an animation practicum course with Cal State Long Beach. She resides in Los Angeles with her wife and their six pets.
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.