year-long
mentorship program

We coach mentees through raising money for their projects. With our help, most mentees raise as much or more than they spend on this program.

I would add, as well, that this program is a small fraction of what film schools cost, but offers individualized attention like no other.

All that said, if joining is financially impossible, that is not your fault, and you should not apply for now.

Film schools focus on mechanics, and this can be the least important aspect of filmmaking.

While we deliver skill building in spades, we also focus on building confidence and community. We hold out high expectations that meet each artist where they’re at.

In film school everyone learns the same thing. This program tailor-fits your needs, goals, strengths – and schedule!

We cost a lot less – and deliver way more.

And for what it’s worth: I’ve had countless film school graduates tell me that what we deliver has done a lot more than film school as far as learning the mechanics go.

Ever go to a film festival? How many (gulp…) unmemorable films, or ones that are painful to watch, have you sat through?

Last time I went to a festival, an audience member said about the film created by my student: “Well, that one was different. You felt like you were watching a real movie.”

All those meh films that flood festival programmers aren’t coming from people without talent. They come from artists who haven’t received the training and support that they needed to reach their potential.

Even the pretty looking ones that were well shot don’t leave a mark, because at the end of the day, the quality of a film is not about mechanics.

We don’t want you to make a film. We guide you in making your best possible film – the one that audiences will go home thinking about. Those are the films that launch careers.

Most of our students show up feeling this way. I felt that way for years while writing scripts and shopping them around, hoping for that magic “sale.” (Plot spoiler: that sale doesn’t come until you’ve produced your own films.)

That said, you can absolutely focus the entire year on building a body of stunning scripts. Mentees who have done that excelled and were supremely proud of their work.

Just be forewarned that most of the mentees who show up not wanting to produce their work end up getting inspired by their colleagues and deciding to take the plunge and bring their writing to life on the screen. Don’t say I didn’t warn you!

Absolutely. Every artist needs coaching, no matter their level of experience. I turn to coaching myself, regularly. We’ve had professional writers and filmmakers join our program to uplevel their skills, and build their body of work in both quality and quantity.

About fifty percent of our mentees have said at one point or another: “I’m the least experienced person here.” How is half the group the “least experienced?” Lol.

It would be a mistake to “wait until you’re ready.” This program is exactly how you get yourself ready. We’ll take you from zero to sky’s-the-limit.

Never written a single word of a single script? Join us and we’ll launch you. Enough with the waiting.

Just heads up that if you’re really, truly a complete beginner, half the group will still be convinced that they have less experience than you 😉