Legitimate Film and Television Contacts

I find myself at present stuck in a no man's land, between the hundreds of emerging filmmakers that I know and the legitimate industry.

My problem is not a lack of contacts, it's having very few legit. established contacts who have access to real budgets and who can greenlight projects.

This means that sustaining a career is proving difficult, I've been paid to write a few scripts but i'm still finding it very difficult to capitalise upon that.

I've lost track of the amount of projects that I've been involved with that have gone nowhere. It's par for the course and so is, the scrum towards 'getting paid well for doing what i've trained for and doing it really well'.

That is the Scriptwriter's lot and you have to except that you are often the recipient of the whims of other's, both in terms of all the rejections you get, but also what you are paid to write, when you are a writer for hire.

Hence why occassionally I make my own Movies too (and am stepping up that aspect), because I know a lot of other filmmaker's who love my writing but don't want to make it into Movies.

That's not a polite way of rejecting it, it's a truth, they love my writing, it's from a unique voice (mine) and often contains stunning imagery and distinctive characters, dillemmas and damn good storytelling, but it's just not something they want to make.