These monthly coaching programs are for writers looking to expand their knowledge base and learn how to tackle the industry like a pro!
All sessions take place 100% online utilizing free video conferencing software ZOOM so you can participate from anywhere in the world with an internet connection!
Want ongoing career guidance?
The industry is a wild place and you can find yourself going around in circles trying to find the best route forward.
We're excited to introduce a monthly career guidance program with an industry professional with experience at major production companies and studios. Michael is an experienced reader and consultant and will impart her wisdom to her writers every month.
Consistency and networking are crucial in this industry and this program will help you achieve both!
Program Details
This Monthly Career Coaching consists of bi-weekly email correspondence and 1 live virtual roundtable with Michael. This is an opportunity to flesh out your brand, ask industry-related questions, learn about the current industry landscape, get networking tips and figure out the best way to position your material in the marketplace. You can even bring in feedback you received from other execs and have Val help you figure out how to best implement them.
Note: if you register after the month begins, you will start your program the following month.
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Michael K. Dwyer is a hapa-haole Producer-and-Screenwriter with over a decade of film industry experience. A native of San Francisco, California, Michael graduated from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts on the Dean’s List as well as the literary honors program Thematic Option.
In 2012, Michael began working for former Columbia Pictures and Sony Chairman Mark Canton, who he assisted on seasons 2 through series finale of the hit show Power, as well as tentpole films like THE LAST WITCH HUNTER. Michael also worked briefly as an assistant at the film/music/tech crossover company MX Productions for Christina Aguilera and Matthew Rutler, who had a television deal at Lionsgate Television.
Michael returned to working for Mark Canton (300, DEN OF THIEVES) as a Creative Executive at his new independently financed venture Cinelou Films, where he worked on independent films like Robert DeNiro’s THE COMEDIAN, Jennifer Aniston’s THE YELLOW BIRDS, Ridley Scott’s PHOENIX FORGOTTEN, and Joe Dante/Mick Garris’s fan-favorite horror anthology NIGHTMARE CINEMA. During this time, he also managed the active slates of Mark Canton’s multiple film and television ventures.
In 2019, Michael left Cinelou as Director of Development, and found a home as the Head of Screenplay and Business Development at Atlanta’s Blackhall Entertainment Ventures, and then at Los Angeles’s Ravendesk Entertainment.
Michael is currently Head of Screenplay Development and Business Strategy at Ravendesk, where he has set up Comic and Table-top RPG projects in the trans-media spaces. During Michael’s tenure at Ravendesk, he has overseen the company’s growth as it purchased 15+ comic and tabletop-RPG titles, set up an independent first-look development and production deal, as well as secured agency representation for the Company’s slate of IP. Now Ravendesk has a television project fully independently financed for production, and several IPs in deep development across all mediums.
At the end of 2022 Michael formed an independent film production company A GROUP OF FERRETS with his former colleague at Cinelou Films, David Hopwood (POWER, FREAK BROTHERS, DEN OF THIEVES). Their company has a very small slate with director packaged material, targeting independent genre films in the 3-8 million dollar range, as well as action-hybrids in the 12-15 million dollar space.
To kick off 2023, Michael joined the brand new motion-capture animated company Precariat Productions (Writer/Director/Producer team behind the indie film CANVAS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1hfxtfq4LE) as the Head of Genre development, where he is spearheading the company's expansion into the fully animated television arena and indie genre mo-cap feature spaces.
Michael also screenwrites in the genre hybrid, historical, AAPI, and dark comedy spaces.
Cancellation Policy: You may cancel for a full refund up to 5 days prior to the start of the program. Cancellations requested after this period will be ineligible for refunds.
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