Work one-on-one with an executive at mutually agreed upon times around your schedule. To start, you'll have a 15-minute strategy call with your executive to get the lay of the land for the month. Then, you’ll have email access to your executive throughout, plus four one-hour story notes sessions. Work on a single screenplay or multiple scripts plus get additional notes on your pitch, brand strategy, and career advice - work your mentorship to its fullest potential!
My biggest tip would be to be able to pitch the idea or hook within a couple/few sentences right away. After that, I think it is important to be able to define clear characters and their arcs, and the primary turning points of the story, such as Act I break, Act II break, main obstacles, and resolution.
I am interested in primarily features and feature adaptation from books. I am interested in many genres, but particularly those that make an audience feel something, give them a really surprising gut punch, or cover an interesting part of history. I enjoy comedy, drama, dramedy, romance, historical, true stories, and elevated genre pictures that are about character and theme over spectacle. My primary concern in non-comedy genres is a good solid emotional hook (I wouldn't say I am a YA person per se, but was drawn in by the emotional hook of "I volunteer as tribute" in HUNGER GAMES, for example).
I am not interested in movies that are more of programmers. Many romcoms and action movies tend to fall into this category. I am not opposed to those genres at all, but look for original ways into them.
Jim Miller has been a producer and studio executive for the last 20 years, having co-produced and/or overseen quality, successful movies in all genres, from JUNO to THE HUNGER GAMES.
Jim started his producing and executive career at Mandate Pictures in 2002, where he co-produced and oversaw movies such as JUNO, STRANGER THAN FICTION, HAROLD AND KUMAR GO TO WHITE CASTLE, MR. MAGORIUM'S WONDER EMPORIUM, and a number of genre films for Sam Raimi's and Rob Tapert's Ghosthouse Pictures.
After a year at Temple Hill Entertainment, Jim joined Lionsgate in 2008. At Lionsgate, Jim helped find and was in charge of overseeing each installment of the HUNGER GAMES franchise. He also oversaw movies such as BARB AND STAR GO TO VISTA DEL MAR, ANTEBELLUM, RUN, CHAOS WALKNG, UNCLE DREW, CHILD 44, POWER RANGERS, DIRTY GRANDPA, and WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU’RE EXPECTING, and developed and put together CODA with Sian Heder at Lionsgate before a regime change caused the movie to be put in turnaround.
Jim left Lionsgate in mid 2021 to start his own production company, as part of which he Executive Produced the HUNGER GAMES prequel, THE BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS AND SNAKES. He took a brief 18 month break to run David Talbert's (JINGLE JANGLE) production company at Netflix, before returning to build his own slate in January of 2024.
Private Month Mentorship
Each month mentorship kicks off with a preliminary 15-min. call to set expectations and lay out strategy for the month. Writer will have email access to the executive plus 4x one-hour consultations with the exec. Exec will read up to 4 scripts in one month (different drafts of the same script or 4 different scripts) and conduct 4x one-hour story notes calls. Calls can also include feedback on your pitch, branding, or career strategy.
If you pay with the deposit/payment plan, your second half will be due the 2nd week of the Mentorship. If you need a different type of payment plan, email dorian@roadmapwriters.com.
**Please note feature screenplays are limited to 120 pages maximum. Please contact terra@roadmapwriters.com for pricing on a Month Mentorship on screenplays exceeding 120 pages.
What To Expect
After registering, you will receive an automatic Order Confirmation email. Then Roadmap's Director of Consultations, Terra Joy, will get your mentor looped in with you! If you do not hear from Terra or the exec within 3 days of registering, feel free to email terra@roadmapwriters.com for an update.
Before starting your Month Mentorship, please ensure you are familiar with our Code of Conduct.