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Screenplay & Film Consulting By Susan Kouguell

Month: August 2010

SUSAN’S ASK THE SCREENPLAY DOCTOR COLUMN “Where to Send Your Script”

NEWENGLANDFILM.COM: ASK THE SCREENPLAY DOCTOR column

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“Where to Send Your Script”

When you believe you are ready to submit your screenplay for representation or to a production company, put yourself in the executives’ shoes.  Make sure that your screenplay is really ready for submission and that you are not sending it off because you think it’s good enough as is, and someone else will fix it.   Do not be lazy! Your script is your calling card.  If your script has typos, grammatical errors, copy machine marks, missing pages, sloppy mistakes, formatting errors, and so on, be warned — your script will be discarded and there is a very good chance that the company will never want to read anything else that you send them.

Read more:

http://www.newenglandfilm.com/magazine/2010/06/screenplay

Ask the Screenplay Doctor: Agent Calling

SUSAN’S MONTHLY COLUMN AT NEWENGLANDFILM.COM

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Getting the call, email, or snail mail letter that an agent has requested to read your work is great news…but don’t lose your common sense.  Keep in mind that just because an agent has expressed interest in your work, you should not jump into a relationship without making sure the agent is a good match for you.

Here is a question I get on a regular basis: Can you provide some guidelines on how a screenwriter can choose the “right” agent to represent his or her script?

Read more:

http://www.newenglandfilm.com/magazine/2010/08/agentcalling