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Thanks again - totally makes sense.

Thank you. I never understood what 'high concept' meant before but I understand what you said. I do think my work is original and now I have a couple of ideas of how to create the money to make my movies and am pursuing them. Still, not out of the woods yet, still be open to selling a...

Yes I was thinking that's the case. But I've seen entities who I thought had some respect/traction in the industry - I think Chaos and Confusion was one of the players there? - line up to get paid for pitches.

Thanks, I'm agreeing with you. Fortunately the responses on to this post have helped provoke some ideas within me, plus some research I was doing anyhow, so I'm going to take another route now. As the saying goes, "Where there's a will, there's a way.". Etc. I didn't know things were quite so...

He he, I like your answer. And you're probably not even being sarcastic at the end. OMG!

Thank you, really interesting and useful information.

Thanks but as a struggling artist that really isn't attractive to me. Plus my understanding is that most of them are waste-of-time/vanity ventures.

But www.Stage32.com gets people to pay to pitch to what I would previously assumed to be successful production companies and agents. Then I think, if they're so successful why are they part of this?

Wow, I never heard of actors paying to get a speaking part before! I used to be a pop artist also and I'm totally sick of people asking me to work for free. Particularly, for example, people who want me to ghostwrite their lives and then grandly suggest that I can take a share of the profits...

Thank you, I'm really benefitting from hearing from you and the others who are answering this thread. To be honest I don't even really want to sell my scripts, I want to direct and otherwise make my movies. I felt like selling a script would be like sacrificing my first born. And it seems that...

Yes but on www.stage32.com, people pay to get opinions from people in the film business all the time. From people who can move their script forward.

Thank you Unknown Screewriter, that's wonderfuld! Will contact. Good luck to you too!

Thank you! Sounds good, will follow your advice.

Thanks, reading this I came up with an idea that could help my movies get made. Wishing you great luck with your hybrid cart system!

Thank you IvonV. I appreciate your post a lot and look, I'm not dismissing experienced people here 'so quickly' as you suggest. I'm listening, I'm learning, and I still think it's a ridiculous state of affairs that screenwriters are often pressed to pay to have their creations considered by...

Thanks, but screenplay competitions really seem such a ridiculous sub-culture of film to me. I want to make money from my screenplays, not pay to get useless attention. Yes I know people will give examples where a rare few who paid to enter film competitions actually got paid some money down the...

Come on now - if a script is good/great/whatever, that's the way it is. Again, why dance around? To me life is the trial and education and selling a script should be like any other business; you like it or you don't, you think this will sell or it won't. You invest accordingly, Why not...

Thank you for your reply miesemann. That just seems such a waste of time - why not just be able to send in scripts to production companies without all the song and dance? And in many cases, money. Not that I disbelieve you. There's a whole lot of nonsense that goes on around the film...

Thank for your reply. I heard it's just as difficult to get an agent without having any industry connections. So what are you supposed to do? It's not like every movie is so great that fresh talent isn't needed either...

Hi - Does anyone know of any production companies who will consider and can pay for unsolicited screenplays? I have a number of scripts of different genres and am finding it time-wasting to search for production companies online accepting unsolicited scripts. It turns out usually/so far...