THE STORYTELLER

Literary Department

Rights Procurement and Management, Research and Development, Author/Writer Management

 

 

"Start with a cliche, but never end with one."

 

The original impulse of committing a story for the motion picture format has to be really strong in order to sustain the several months, and sometimes years, of labor required to make it a reality. Along the way several brick walls of rejections, objections, and dejections will be presented, which exist only to test the resolve of the maker and the strength of that original impulse.

 

Depending on the support mechanisms and the quality of effort applied in attending to these challenges as opportunities to improve and expand on the original concept, the maker is likely to succeed or fail at producing a film far better than the idea that set the ball rolling.

 

At the very advent, the maker can only pick from what is available within reach. Our literary department is committed to understanding the strengths and aspirations of the maker, in line with their current access to resources and finance, to then match available concepts and ideas that can be adapted to the medium by maximizing on the maker's resources. This allows for choices as well as an expansive understanding of the quality of stories in the genre helping the maker raise the bar with every successive stage of development. Our goal is to improve the odds of raising more finance, get quality attachments, and pool together the best resources for a superior product.

 

In the case of studios, with their need to supply a steady output of a certain number of films every year, we will help with keeping the pipeline flowing and active with well thought out, turn key projects.

 

In the case of directors, who usually lose out on their momentum and rapport with their well oiled production team as well as their hard-earned warmth with the audience from their last release, our literary department can help develop several of their concepts and keep a reservoir of ready-to-go projects lined up so as to minimize the downtime and maximize the director's productivity in their active years.

 

"Real writing is rewriting."

 

The pressures of delivering a product when the demand for it exists and within a said budget makes for a lot of compromises along the way. By investing in the development process, the maker stands to gain heavily from the satisfaction of having a well drafted blueprint to maximize the output of the resource heavy and expensive phase of production and post-production, thus delivering a quality product on time without having to resort to heartbreaking compromises.

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