Big Break Contest
The Contest
Big Break is an annual, international feature and television screenwriting contest designed to launch the careers of aspiring writers. Big Break rewards screenwriters with over $80,000 in cash and prizes, including a trip to Los Angeles and A-list executive meetings. Winners and finalists alike have had their screenplays optioned and produced and have secured high-profile representation as well as lucrative writing deals.
Since its inception in 1999, Big Break has awarded screenwriters with over $390,000 in cash and prizes and invaluable industry exposure. A panel of notable industry professionals conducts the final judging.
Contest Objectives
Our objective is to discover talented screenwriters and help them find success in today’s filmmaking market.
Contest Notables
Visit our Success Stories, our 2012 Winners and Finalists, and this year's prizes!
Don't miss your big break. Enter your screenplay or teleplay today!
What our latest winners are saying:
"Winning first place in the Final Draft, Inc. Big Break Screenwriting Contest has been a fantastic experience, but equally wonderful has been all of the support that the Final Draft, Inc. team has given to each of the top-3 finalists, from meetings with agents, managers and producers, to career advice. It's nice to have someone in your corner. They really want you to succeed!"
Craig Houchin
Ludlow: Winner, Big Break 2012
"Becoming a winner of Big Break was a great experience where doors were opened. I was given many introductions to creative and industry professionals which enhanced my understanding of what it means to have a voice and break through as a working writer. I have also been given tremendous support for my script and received so many prizes on a daily basis, it felt like Christmas morning for a month!"
April Rouveyrol
Life Copy: Second Place, Big Break 2012
"The Final Draft, Inc. Big Break Contest was one of those experiences that I will remember as long as I write words. They flew me to Hollywood for cripes sakes! It was a snapshot of a screenwriter's dream. It gave me a view of the industry from people inside the industry. It was invaluable. Thank you, Final Draft!"
Matthew Snyman
The Whaler's Daughter: Third Place, Big Break 2012
Cash Prizes
Feature Grand Prize
The Big Break grand-prize feature winner will take home $15,000 in cash plus win a trip to Los Angeles and 3-night hotel stay (unless winner resides in or around Los Angeles). The winner will also be a special guest at the unforgettable Final Draft, Inc. Annual Awards Event where the top screenwriters from film and television gather for the Screenwriters Choice Awards and the Hall of Fame. PLUS these great prizes:
•Apple iPad loaded with Final Draft Mobile software
•Breakfast with screenwriter/producer Pen Densham (Riding the Alligator, Moll Flanders, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, producer of Backdraft)
•Admission to the UCLA Professional Program in Screenwriting
•Lunch with Big Break judges and other industry professionals
•Dinner with working screenwriters and producers
•60-90 Minute Career/Meeting Prep Session from screenwriting career coach Lee Jessup
•Admission to the August 2014 Script Pipeline Secret Door Pitchfest
•Admission to any one of John Truby's Anatomy of Story Master Class in 2014
•Admission to any one of Robert McKee Story Seminar in 2014
•Final Draft, Inc. ScriptXpert™ Extended Coverage
•A Custom Query Letter with Labels to 100 producers in your genre and 100 Literary Agents, and a follow-up Email Query Blast from Smart Girls Productions to market your screenplay
•Query Letter or One-Sheet analysis and a personalized, signed copy of The Screenwriter's Bible by Dave Trottier
•Script consultation with a Script Pipeline’s Director of Development for potential industry circulation
•1-3-5 Story Structure Made Simple screenwriting book and The Show Starter reality pitching book
•Plus genre finalist prizes
The winner will have a trailer of his or her script produced by the New York Film Academy and posted on Finaldraft.com. Winner will also receive tuition to the 4-Week Filmmaking class, a $3,150 value. (Travel and equipment fees not included. Please see important NYFA prize guidelines here.)
Television Grand Prize
The Big Break grand-prize television winner will take home $2,500 in cash plus win a trip to Los Angeles and 3-night hotel stay (unless winner resides in or around Los Angeles). The winner will also be a special guest at the unforgettable Final Draft, Inc. Annual Awards Event where the top screenwriters from film and television gather for the Screenwriters Choice Awards and the Hall of Fame. PLUS these great prizes:
•Apple iPad loaded with Final Draft Mobile software
•Breakfast with screenwriter/producer Pen Densham (Riding the Alligator, Moll Flanders, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, producer of Backdraft)
•Lunch with Big Break judges and other industry professionals
•Dinner with working screenwriters and producers
•Pilot Consultation from Jen Grisanti Consultancy including two written/verbal notes and meetings to review the notes and your log line
•One-hour career consultation with Carole Kirschner of Park on the Lot to create a step by step, personalized game plan for leveraging the contest win
•60-90 Minute Career/Meeting Prep Session from screenwriting career coach Lee Jessup
•Admission to the August 2014 Script Pipeline Secret Door Pitchfest
•Admission to any one of Robert McKee Story Seminar in 2014
•Admission to any one of John Truby's Anatomy of Story Master Class in 2014
•Final Draft, Inc. ScriptXpert™ Extended Coverage
•A Custom Query Letter with Labels to 100 producers in your genre and 100 Literary Agents, and a follow-up Email Query Blast from Smart Girls Productions to market your screenplay
•Script consultation with a Script Pipeline’s Director of Development for potential industry circulation
•1-3-5 Story Structure Made Simple screenwriting book and The Show Starter reality pitching book
•Plus finalist prizes
Feature Genre Awards
In order to recognize more outstanding screenplays across different genres, the Big Break Contest will now present an award to the best script in each of the following genres: Action/Adventure, Comedy/Rom-Com, Drama, Family/Animated, Period/Historical/War, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, and Thriller/Horror. Each winner will be awarded:
•$1,000 cash
•Final Draft software
•Final Draft, Inc. ScriptXpert™ Basic Coverage
•A Letter Of Intent from FilmBreak to distribute the film, once completed, to the major Digital and Video-On-Demand outlets
•Three-month membership to Robert McKee's Storylogue
•Industry marketing from InkTip
•Writer brand assessment from Lee Jessup
•Truby’s Blockbuster Genres: How The Top 11 Genres Really Work Audio Course
•One-year Writers Database Membership courtesy of Script P.I.M.P.
•StoryO from Jungle Software
•Masterwriter creative writing software
•Pitch Your Screenplay Like a Pro Ebook and Video by Melody Jackson, Founder of from Smart Girls Productions
•Free Final Draft, Inc. The Insider View webinar of your choice in 2014
•Free Big Break Contest entry for 2014
Television Awards
In order to recognize more outstanding teleplays in different formats, the Big Break Contest will now present an award to the best script in the Half-Hour Spec, Half-Hour Pilot, Hour-Long Spec, and Hour-Long Pilot categories. Each winner will be awarded:
•$1,000 cash
•Final Draft software
•Final Draft, Inc. ScriptXpert™ Basic Coverage
•Pitch Consultation with Jen Grisanti Consultancy for Intensive work on your pitch
•Three-month membership to Robert McKee's Storylogue
•Industry marketing from InkTip
•Writer brand assessment from Lee Jessup
•Truby’s Blockbuster Genres: How The Top 11 Genres Really Work Audio Course
•One-year Writers Database Membership courtesy of Script P.I.M.P.
•StoryO from Jungle Software
•Masterwriter creative writing software
•Pitch Your Screenplay Like a Pro Ebook and Video by Melody Jackson, Founder of from Smart Girls Productions
•Free Final Draft, Inc. The Insider View webinar of your choice in 2014
•One-year Tier 1 subscription to Show Starter Scheduling & Budgeting Plus
•Free Big Break Contest entry for 2014
Success Stories
Since winning the 2011 Big Break, Adam Perlman and Graham Sack have signed with The Gersh Agency for film and television and are developing a film project with Global Produce. Additionally, Adam is a writer for the HBO original television series The Newsroom.
2012 Big Break first place winner Craig Houchin has just signed with agent Joel Millner of Larchmont Literary, and is working with Katonah Pictures producer Chris Salvaterra to package the film of his winning screenplay, Ludlow.
Walt Disney Pictures acquired Labryinth, a pitch by 2010 third-place Big Break winner Larry Brenner.
2010 third-place winner Larry Brenner's script Bethlehem sold to Universal — Click here to read the complete article. Big Break judge Mitch Solomon of Magnet Management has also helped Larry secure writing work for hire in both television and features.
2013 Big Break Contest Finalists Marco van Belle & Kat Wood sign with Zero Gravity Management — Click here to read the complete interview.
2009 top-20 semi-finalist Gia Milani's script All the Wrong Reasons was funded and shot in 2012. It stars Cory Monteith from Glee, Karine Vanasse from Pan Am and Kevin Zegers from TransAmerica and The Mortal Instruments. Milani directed the feature.
2011 Big Break 4th-Place Winner Signed by Silent R Management and CAA. — Click here to read the complete interview.
Rob Frisbee, 2007 Big Break winner, is now making news in the trades with his third writing assignment in the last year and a half. — Click here to read the complete article.
2011 Big Break Top-40 Finalist Christopher DeBaisse scores representation — read more
2007 Big Break second-place winner Nick Horwood has his script produced — read more
2010 Big Break Winner Tejal Desai gains management and an option for his script before he left L.A. — read more
2010 Big Break second-place winner Mick Connolly gains a manager and an agent — read more
2009 Big Break winner Wyatt Wakeman signed by Big Break judge Brian Spink of Realm Literary — read more
2006 Big Break winner Robert Frisbee gains management from Benderspink — read more
2005 Big Break winner Julia Van Develder's The Escape Artist optioned by U.K. production company — read more
2004 Big Break winner Ryland Grant signed by CAA — read more
2002 Big Break winner Shawn Corridan signed by MBST Management, winning script 8 Track picked up by Fox 2000 — read more
2001 Big Break Finalist Brendan Foley has first feature film produced — read more
2001 Big Break Finalist TJ Lynch's film A Plumm Summer produced, starring Henry Winkler, William Baldwin, and Peter Scolari. — read more
2000 Big Break winner Ken Hastings' "Dawg" now known as Bad Boy has been produced and shot by Gold Circle Films.
Judges
The industry judges of the 2013 Big Break Contest will be announced in July. Below is a list of our 2012 judges who determined the top-three scripts and the winner of the 2012 Big Break Contest. Final Draft, Inc. thanks them for their time and passion for supporting scriptwriters.
Adam Novak - William Morris Endeavor
A graduate of USC’s Filmic Writing Program, Adam Novak played a ruthless drug dealer in the 1990 senior thesis video of Boyz N the Hood by classmate John Singleton, which prepared him for the motion picture industry.
Head of the Story Department of William Morris Endeavor for almost 20 years, —read more
Brian Spink - Realm Literary
Brian Spink is a literary manager/producer at boutique management company Realm which he founded in January 2011. Prior to that, he spent over a decade at Benderspink. He represents screenwriters and directors in film and television as well as comic book writers. Feature projects that Brian is executive producing include Abducted at Paramount, Last Voyage of The Demeter —read more
Brooklyn Weaver - Energy Entertainment
Brooklyn Weaver owns Energy Entertainment, a literary management and production company based in Beverly Hills and is a producer on several film projects. As a literary manager, Weaver is known throughout Hollywood for having high-caliber taste in clients and projects and as a top dealmaker. As a producer, in 2012 Weaver executive produced revenge/drama Out of the Furnace —read more
Irene Yeung - VP at Vertigo Entertainment
Irene Yeung is a VP working with Roy Lee at Vertigo Entertainment (The Grudge, The Departed, The Strangers). She graduated from USC's School of Cinema-Television and began her career as an intern at Vertigo, where she worked her way through the ranks to her current position. She was an associate producer on the Screen Gems thriller The Roommate and a co-producer on the upcoming supernatural thriller 7500 at CBS Films. Vertigo is currently in production on the WB thriller Hidden and working on an adaptation of Stephen King's The Stand and It, a remake of OldBoy, and Godzilla.
Julian Rosenberg and Jennifer Au - Literary Managers at Caliber Media
Julian was born and raised in the community of Kitsilano in Vancouver, Canada. His career began at age 18 as an actor, before segueing into producing. By age 21, —read more
Jewerl Ross - Silent R Management
Jewerl Ross grew up in Los Angeles and left Southern California to study political philosophy at Yale. After graduating in 1997, he returned to L.A. to work in entry-level positions at ICM and Paradigm before joining APA as an agent in early 1999. Three years later, after making a name for himself selling spec scripts, Marathon Entertainment hired Ross as a manager. In January 2006, —read more
Mitch Solomon - Magnet Management
Mitch Solomon is a literary manager and producer who runs the production arm of Magnet Management. Among his clients is Larry Brenner, who was introduced to Solomon through the 2010 Final Draft, Inc. Big Break competition. Brenner subsequently sold his spec script Bethlehem to Universal with Joe Roth and Palak Patel producing and adapted Angelology on assignment at —read more
Palak Patel - Roth Films
Palak Patel runs the film division for Joe Roth's company, Roth Films. Roth Films recently produced Alice in Wonderland directed by Tim Burton. They also produced Knight & Day starring Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz. Patel was an Executive Producer on Snow White And The Huntsman. He is currently in post production on Oz: The Great and Powerful starring —read more
Trevor Engelson - Underground Films
Trevor Engelson is a manager and producer at Underground, a company that manages the careers of a number of film and television writers, directors, comedians, and actors. The company’s clients include John Singleton, Jon Lajoie, Jim Field Smith, Joel David Moore, Dito Montiel and Irvine Welsh. Trevor was named in The Hollywood Reporter’s Next Generation 35 Under 35 for his work as a manager. —read more
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Big Break is an annual, international feature and television screenwriting contest designed to launch the careers of aspiring writers. Big Break rewards screenwriters with over $80,000 in cash and prizes, including a trip to Los Angeles and A-list executive meetings. Winners and finalists alike have had their screenplays optioned and produced and have secured high-profile representation as well as lucrative writing deals.
Since its inception in 1999, Big Break has awarded screenwriters with over $390,000 in cash and prizes and invaluable industry exposure. A panel of notable industry professionals conducts the final judging.
Contest Objectives
Our objective is to discover talented screenwriters and help them find success in today’s filmmaking market.
Contest Notables
Visit our Success Stories, our 2012 Winners and Finalists, and this year's prizes!
Don't miss your big break. Enter your screenplay or teleplay today!
What our latest winners are saying:
"Winning first place in the Final Draft, Inc. Big Break Screenwriting Contest has been a fantastic experience, but equally wonderful has been all of the support that the Final Draft, Inc. team has given to each of the top-3 finalists, from meetings with agents, managers and producers, to career advice. It's nice to have someone in your corner. They really want you to succeed!"
Craig Houchin
Ludlow: Winner, Big Break 2012
"Becoming a winner of Big Break was a great experience where doors were opened. I was given many introductions to creative and industry professionals which enhanced my understanding of what it means to have a voice and break through as a working writer. I have also been given tremendous support for my script and received so many prizes on a daily basis, it felt like Christmas morning for a month!"
April Rouveyrol
Life Copy: Second Place, Big Break 2012
"The Final Draft, Inc. Big Break Contest was one of those experiences that I will remember as long as I write words. They flew me to Hollywood for cripes sakes! It was a snapshot of a screenwriter's dream. It gave me a view of the industry from people inside the industry. It was invaluable. Thank you, Final Draft!"
Matthew Snyman
The Whaler's Daughter: Third Place, Big Break 2012
Cash Prizes
Feature Grand Prize
The Big Break grand-prize feature winner will take home $15,000 in cash plus win a trip to Los Angeles and 3-night hotel stay (unless winner resides in or around Los Angeles). The winner will also be a special guest at the unforgettable Final Draft, Inc. Annual Awards Event where the top screenwriters from film and television gather for the Screenwriters Choice Awards and the Hall of Fame. PLUS these great prizes:
•Apple iPad loaded with Final Draft Mobile software
•Breakfast with screenwriter/producer Pen Densham (Riding the Alligator, Moll Flanders, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, producer of Backdraft)
•Admission to the UCLA Professional Program in Screenwriting
•Lunch with Big Break judges and other industry professionals
•Dinner with working screenwriters and producers
•60-90 Minute Career/Meeting Prep Session from screenwriting career coach Lee Jessup
•Admission to the August 2014 Script Pipeline Secret Door Pitchfest
•Admission to any one of John Truby's Anatomy of Story Master Class in 2014
•Admission to any one of Robert McKee Story Seminar in 2014
•Final Draft, Inc. ScriptXpert™ Extended Coverage
•A Custom Query Letter with Labels to 100 producers in your genre and 100 Literary Agents, and a follow-up Email Query Blast from Smart Girls Productions to market your screenplay
•Query Letter or One-Sheet analysis and a personalized, signed copy of The Screenwriter's Bible by Dave Trottier
•Script consultation with a Script Pipeline’s Director of Development for potential industry circulation
•1-3-5 Story Structure Made Simple screenwriting book and The Show Starter reality pitching book
•Plus genre finalist prizes
The winner will have a trailer of his or her script produced by the New York Film Academy and posted on Finaldraft.com. Winner will also receive tuition to the 4-Week Filmmaking class, a $3,150 value. (Travel and equipment fees not included. Please see important NYFA prize guidelines here.)
Television Grand Prize
The Big Break grand-prize television winner will take home $2,500 in cash plus win a trip to Los Angeles and 3-night hotel stay (unless winner resides in or around Los Angeles). The winner will also be a special guest at the unforgettable Final Draft, Inc. Annual Awards Event where the top screenwriters from film and television gather for the Screenwriters Choice Awards and the Hall of Fame. PLUS these great prizes:
•Apple iPad loaded with Final Draft Mobile software
•Breakfast with screenwriter/producer Pen Densham (Riding the Alligator, Moll Flanders, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, producer of Backdraft)
•Lunch with Big Break judges and other industry professionals
•Dinner with working screenwriters and producers
•Pilot Consultation from Jen Grisanti Consultancy including two written/verbal notes and meetings to review the notes and your log line
•One-hour career consultation with Carole Kirschner of Park on the Lot to create a step by step, personalized game plan for leveraging the contest win
•60-90 Minute Career/Meeting Prep Session from screenwriting career coach Lee Jessup
•Admission to the August 2014 Script Pipeline Secret Door Pitchfest
•Admission to any one of Robert McKee Story Seminar in 2014
•Admission to any one of John Truby's Anatomy of Story Master Class in 2014
•Final Draft, Inc. ScriptXpert™ Extended Coverage
•A Custom Query Letter with Labels to 100 producers in your genre and 100 Literary Agents, and a follow-up Email Query Blast from Smart Girls Productions to market your screenplay
•Script consultation with a Script Pipeline’s Director of Development for potential industry circulation
•1-3-5 Story Structure Made Simple screenwriting book and The Show Starter reality pitching book
•Plus finalist prizes
Feature Genre Awards
In order to recognize more outstanding screenplays across different genres, the Big Break Contest will now present an award to the best script in each of the following genres: Action/Adventure, Comedy/Rom-Com, Drama, Family/Animated, Period/Historical/War, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, and Thriller/Horror. Each winner will be awarded:
•$1,000 cash
•Final Draft software
•Final Draft, Inc. ScriptXpert™ Basic Coverage
•A Letter Of Intent from FilmBreak to distribute the film, once completed, to the major Digital and Video-On-Demand outlets
•Three-month membership to Robert McKee's Storylogue
•Industry marketing from InkTip
•Writer brand assessment from Lee Jessup
•Truby’s Blockbuster Genres: How The Top 11 Genres Really Work Audio Course
•One-year Writers Database Membership courtesy of Script P.I.M.P.
•StoryO from Jungle Software
•Masterwriter creative writing software
•Pitch Your Screenplay Like a Pro Ebook and Video by Melody Jackson, Founder of from Smart Girls Productions
•Free Final Draft, Inc. The Insider View webinar of your choice in 2014
•Free Big Break Contest entry for 2014
Television Awards
In order to recognize more outstanding teleplays in different formats, the Big Break Contest will now present an award to the best script in the Half-Hour Spec, Half-Hour Pilot, Hour-Long Spec, and Hour-Long Pilot categories. Each winner will be awarded:
•$1,000 cash
•Final Draft software
•Final Draft, Inc. ScriptXpert™ Basic Coverage
•Pitch Consultation with Jen Grisanti Consultancy for Intensive work on your pitch
•Three-month membership to Robert McKee's Storylogue
•Industry marketing from InkTip
•Writer brand assessment from Lee Jessup
•Truby’s Blockbuster Genres: How The Top 11 Genres Really Work Audio Course
•One-year Writers Database Membership courtesy of Script P.I.M.P.
•StoryO from Jungle Software
•Masterwriter creative writing software
•Pitch Your Screenplay Like a Pro Ebook and Video by Melody Jackson, Founder of from Smart Girls Productions
•Free Final Draft, Inc. The Insider View webinar of your choice in 2014
•One-year Tier 1 subscription to Show Starter Scheduling & Budgeting Plus
•Free Big Break Contest entry for 2014
Success Stories
Since winning the 2011 Big Break, Adam Perlman and Graham Sack have signed with The Gersh Agency for film and television and are developing a film project with Global Produce. Additionally, Adam is a writer for the HBO original television series The Newsroom.
2012 Big Break first place winner Craig Houchin has just signed with agent Joel Millner of Larchmont Literary, and is working with Katonah Pictures producer Chris Salvaterra to package the film of his winning screenplay, Ludlow.
Walt Disney Pictures acquired Labryinth, a pitch by 2010 third-place Big Break winner Larry Brenner.
2010 third-place winner Larry Brenner's script Bethlehem sold to Universal — Click here to read the complete article. Big Break judge Mitch Solomon of Magnet Management has also helped Larry secure writing work for hire in both television and features.
2013 Big Break Contest Finalists Marco van Belle & Kat Wood sign with Zero Gravity Management — Click here to read the complete interview.
2009 top-20 semi-finalist Gia Milani's script All the Wrong Reasons was funded and shot in 2012. It stars Cory Monteith from Glee, Karine Vanasse from Pan Am and Kevin Zegers from TransAmerica and The Mortal Instruments. Milani directed the feature.
2011 Big Break 4th-Place Winner Signed by Silent R Management and CAA. — Click here to read the complete interview.
Rob Frisbee, 2007 Big Break winner, is now making news in the trades with his third writing assignment in the last year and a half. — Click here to read the complete article.
2011 Big Break Top-40 Finalist Christopher DeBaisse scores representation — read more
2007 Big Break second-place winner Nick Horwood has his script produced — read more
2010 Big Break Winner Tejal Desai gains management and an option for his script before he left L.A. — read more
2010 Big Break second-place winner Mick Connolly gains a manager and an agent — read more
2009 Big Break winner Wyatt Wakeman signed by Big Break judge Brian Spink of Realm Literary — read more
2006 Big Break winner Robert Frisbee gains management from Benderspink — read more
2005 Big Break winner Julia Van Develder's The Escape Artist optioned by U.K. production company — read more
2004 Big Break winner Ryland Grant signed by CAA — read more
2002 Big Break winner Shawn Corridan signed by MBST Management, winning script 8 Track picked up by Fox 2000 — read more
2001 Big Break Finalist Brendan Foley has first feature film produced — read more
2001 Big Break Finalist TJ Lynch's film A Plumm Summer produced, starring Henry Winkler, William Baldwin, and Peter Scolari. — read more
2000 Big Break winner Ken Hastings' "Dawg" now known as Bad Boy has been produced and shot by Gold Circle Films.
Judges
The industry judges of the 2013 Big Break Contest will be announced in July. Below is a list of our 2012 judges who determined the top-three scripts and the winner of the 2012 Big Break Contest. Final Draft, Inc. thanks them for their time and passion for supporting scriptwriters.
Adam Novak - William Morris Endeavor
A graduate of USC’s Filmic Writing Program, Adam Novak played a ruthless drug dealer in the 1990 senior thesis video of Boyz N the Hood by classmate John Singleton, which prepared him for the motion picture industry.
Head of the Story Department of William Morris Endeavor for almost 20 years, —read more
Brian Spink - Realm Literary
Brian Spink is a literary manager/producer at boutique management company Realm which he founded in January 2011. Prior to that, he spent over a decade at Benderspink. He represents screenwriters and directors in film and television as well as comic book writers. Feature projects that Brian is executive producing include Abducted at Paramount, Last Voyage of The Demeter —read more
Brooklyn Weaver - Energy Entertainment
Brooklyn Weaver owns Energy Entertainment, a literary management and production company based in Beverly Hills and is a producer on several film projects. As a literary manager, Weaver is known throughout Hollywood for having high-caliber taste in clients and projects and as a top dealmaker. As a producer, in 2012 Weaver executive produced revenge/drama Out of the Furnace —read more
Irene Yeung - VP at Vertigo Entertainment
Irene Yeung is a VP working with Roy Lee at Vertigo Entertainment (The Grudge, The Departed, The Strangers). She graduated from USC's School of Cinema-Television and began her career as an intern at Vertigo, where she worked her way through the ranks to her current position. She was an associate producer on the Screen Gems thriller The Roommate and a co-producer on the upcoming supernatural thriller 7500 at CBS Films. Vertigo is currently in production on the WB thriller Hidden and working on an adaptation of Stephen King's The Stand and It, a remake of OldBoy, and Godzilla.
Julian Rosenberg and Jennifer Au - Literary Managers at Caliber Media
Julian was born and raised in the community of Kitsilano in Vancouver, Canada. His career began at age 18 as an actor, before segueing into producing. By age 21, —read more
Jewerl Ross - Silent R Management
Jewerl Ross grew up in Los Angeles and left Southern California to study political philosophy at Yale. After graduating in 1997, he returned to L.A. to work in entry-level positions at ICM and Paradigm before joining APA as an agent in early 1999. Three years later, after making a name for himself selling spec scripts, Marathon Entertainment hired Ross as a manager. In January 2006, —read more
Mitch Solomon - Magnet Management
Mitch Solomon is a literary manager and producer who runs the production arm of Magnet Management. Among his clients is Larry Brenner, who was introduced to Solomon through the 2010 Final Draft, Inc. Big Break competition. Brenner subsequently sold his spec script Bethlehem to Universal with Joe Roth and Palak Patel producing and adapted Angelology on assignment at —read more
Palak Patel - Roth Films
Palak Patel runs the film division for Joe Roth's company, Roth Films. Roth Films recently produced Alice in Wonderland directed by Tim Burton. They also produced Knight & Day starring Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz. Patel was an Executive Producer on Snow White And The Huntsman. He is currently in post production on Oz: The Great and Powerful starring —read more
Trevor Engelson - Underground Films
Trevor Engelson is a manager and producer at Underground, a company that manages the careers of a number of film and television writers, directors, comedians, and actors. The company’s clients include John Singleton, Jon Lajoie, Jim Field Smith, Joel David Moore, Dito Montiel and Irvine Welsh. Trevor was named in The Hollywood Reporter’s Next Generation 35 Under 35 for his work as a manager. —read more
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