How to submit a screenplay

Are you entering contests? Answering the request of an agent or production company? Screenwriting contests are about the only places you can send a script without a prior request and not have it summarily discarded. If you want to submit your script to production companies, you have to query them first, and then send it if and when they ask for it.

Querying (and pitching) are arts unto themselves. (How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice. ) You can do it by letter, you can do it by email, you can do it by phone. (You can do it in a house, you can do it like a mouse. I do not like you Sam I am. I do not like green eggs and ham. )

The Script Is Finished. Now What Do I Do?
http://www.scriptsales.com/BkRvwScriptFinished.html

Font is always 12 point Courier. Two brads, Acco #5, an inch and a quarter. Cardstock covers.

http://www.screenwritermag.com/spectips.htm


Format guides

http://www.screenwriting.info/
http://www.scriptwritingsecrets.com/contents.htm
http://www.oscars.org/nicholl/script.pdf
http://lib1.store.vip.sc5.yahoo.com/lib/screenstyle/formatarticle.pdf

Hi Lindsay,

Don't submit it yet. Seriously, if you don't know what font will annoy a screenplay reader, then you've probably done 20 other things that will also annoy the heck out of the reader.

Posting a few pages on the critique board is probably a good next step.

Good luck!

Mac.

Can we be friends????

Is the producer or assistant familiar with your novel, or the overall story?

I have a similar 'card' that I know I can probably pull, but only once. So I am saving it in my back pocket until I really have something that is to my satisfaction.

If the producer is genuinely interested, you might want to make sure that you have the basics covered (structure, format, etc.) I can't tell you level of experience from your original post, so just throwing this out.