Melinda Li - Hour Consultation

Consultations
$289.00
Formats Interested In
TV
Features
Intellectual Property (IP) for Film/TV Development
Particularly Interested In

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.

Women Writers
Writers of Color
LGBTQIA+ Writers
Neurodivergent Writers
Writers Outside LA
Authors (Fiction)
Feature Genres
Drama
Comedy
RomCom
Sci-Fi
Action
Adventure
Fantasy
Thriller
Horror
Budget Range
All Budget Ranges
TV Formats
Half-Hour Pilots (single-cam)
One-Hour Pilots
Miniseries
Limited Series
TV Homes
Cable
Premium Cable
Streaming
TV Genres
Drama
Comedy
RomCom
Sci-Fi
Action
Adventure
Thriller
Horror
Sub-Genres
Animation (adult)
Animation (family-friendly)
Book Adaptation
Coming-of-Age
Crime/True Crime
Dark Comedy
Documentary Adaptation
Dystopian
Female-Driven
Futuristic
Ghosts
Graphic Novel Adaptation
High-Concept
Irreverent
Latinx
LGBTQIA+
Mystery
Psychological
Revenge
Road Trip
Romance
Satire
Serialized TV
Socially Relevant
Supernatural
Suspense
True Story
Workplace
Young Adult (YA)
Specifically Not Interested In

Not as interested in high octane fantasy and period pieces.

More about Melinda Li

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.

How it Works

After registering, you will receive instructions on how to submit your material in your order confirmation email. After submitting your material, please allow 3-4 weeks to receive proposed times for scheduling your call with the exec.

**Please note feature screenplays are limited to 120 pages maximum. Please contact terra@roadmapwriters.com for pricing on a consultation for a screenplay exceeding 120 pages.

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Questions? Email terra@roadmapwriters.com

MARKETING BONUS! If you receive a rating of Excellent or Virtually Flawless in at least four out of five categories (Logline and Formatting/Ease of Reading are excluded) on your consultation feedback report, we'll do one round of personalized marketing to execs (up to 5) for this screenplay for free!

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. 

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