This session format is available only to writers in our Top Tier Program.
Exec will review your pages and meet with you via zoom for 30 minutes to continue elevating your project.
Just relax, my favorite thing to do is talk with other writers about how much they love their ideas. I love to learn about worlds, tell me what you know. Passion is everything.
I am really interested in ripped from the headlines true-story drama, stuff that helps us make sense of the wild and complex world we live in today. My preference is hour-long dramas with dynamic pacing or very tight half-hour dark comedies or satires. On the feature side, I have more general interest, but not looking for epics unless they're truly epic. My interest is in the "inside", psychological portrayals of people involved in big moments. Room for comedy too but I'm looking for something vintage and jokey and super small budget on that front. Manuscripts that lean heavily toward serious literary fiction or short stories.
Not interested in office comedies or sitcoms of any stripe, rote sci-fi or even sci-fi that is too "message"-y. I want smart fun stuff.
Ben Carter Olcott was most recently a Writers’ Assistant on the true crime series CANDY (starring Jessica Biel and Melanie Lynskey). He is currently the Creative Assistant to Robin Veith (MAD MEN, THE ACT) on her overall deal at UCP. His writing has placed as a finalist in multiple screenwriting contests and prose competitions, and additionally has been published in Showcase, Hypocrite Reader, Sharkpack Poetry Review, KGB Bar Literary Magazine, Enclave, and Three Percent magazines.
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