If readers aren’t grabbed by your story in the first 15 pages, they may not keep reading. Submit the first 15 pages of your script and have a 15-minute story notes call with the executive of your choice. This call will help you create a strong opening/act one to keep readers going until FADE OUT.
Questions? Email terra@roadmapwriters.com
The premise should be an immediately compelling hook and a concept that feels fresh for the genre and landscape. Character is of course equally important, and the characters must feel three dimensional and nuanced. Lastly, your personal connection to a project should always be in the intro of a pitch!
I am particularly interested in voice-driven character portraits, either half-hour or hour-long female and BIPOC-driven premium dark comedies like ATLANTA, RAMY, I MAY DESTROY YOU, FLEABAG. I am also particularly interested in budget-friendly high concept grounded sci-fi shows and features such as SEVERANCE. On the feature side, I'm additionally interested in high concept coming of age stories and commercial magical realism.
Not as interested in high octane fantasy and period pieces.
Born in Singapore and raised in suburban Connecticut, Melinda knew from a young age that she wanted to change the world with cinema and storytelling. At Harvard College, she studied psychology and economics, and took on development internships at Plan B and Anonymous Content. After graduating in 2019, she moved to LA where she landed a desk at Warner Bros. TV in Drama Development.
Melinda switched to the producing side of things, as the TV Creative Executive at Viola Davis' JuVee Productions, where she worked on development of shows such as an adaptation of Octavia Butler's WILD SEED, an epic Asian fantasy with Gemma Chan attached as EP, an HBO series set in the world of the Black Elite, and an Amazon drama series about Bruce's Beach with Plan B co-producing. In 2022, Melinda became the Director of Development at TM Instruments, a film & tv production company with a first-look deal at Anonymous Contents, and projects set up at Apple TV, Paramount TV, Tyler Perry Studios, and Universal Studios (specifically a reboot of Van Helsing in the Universal Monsterverse).
This past year Melinda pointed staffing of an Apple series writers room . Melinda seeks to elevate and champion the voices of women, people of color, and those in the LGBTQ+ community.
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Questions? Email terra@roadmapwriters.com
Cancellation Policy: You may cancel your registration for a refund or Roadmap gift card if you have not yet submitted your material for review. However, once your material has been received by Roadmap, your registration cannot be canceled. Having revised material or a desire to retroactively apply a discount or gift card code are not grounds for cancellation, refunds, or gift card credit. Once your material has been submitted, the only acceptable grounds for cancellation and a refund or gift card credit is an unforeseen, ongoing emergency on the part of either the writer or the exec resulting in more than 6 weeks without any scheduling update from the exec via direct contact or Roadmap, or a sudden change in the exec's ongoing availability. In the instance of an irreconcilable scheduling issue, the writer may still receive a written feedback report from the exec. In this case, the writer is not entitled to a refund or gift card credit as the exec has read the submitted material and provided written feedback in lieu of the call.