SELLING YOUR SCREENPLAY: Executive Producer Jeffrey Giles Discusses the Independent Film Market for Screenwriters
Ashley Scott Meyers talks with Executive Producer Jeffrey Giles about his long career as an independent producer and sales agent. We talk about strategies for how screenwriters can break into this market.
This week I talk with Executive Producer Jeffrey Giles about his long career as an independent producer and sales agent. We talk about strategies for how screenwriters can break into this market. Jeffrey hired me a couple years ago to write Snake Outta Compton, so we dig into that film as well as some of his other many productions.
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You can also read a transcript of this episode.
Links mentioned in the show:
- Jeffrey Giles on IMDb
- Jeffrey Giles on Twitter
- Jeffrey Giles on Facebook
- Jeffrey Giles website
- Snake Outta Compton Trailer
- Snake Outta Compton on IMDb
- David Goyer Bafta Interview
- The SYS script analysis service
- Our free guide, "How to Sell Your Screenplay in 5 Weeks!"
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Ashley Scott Meyers is a screenwriter and blogger / podcaster. Since beginning his career as a screenwriter in the late 1990’s he’s optioned more than two dozen feature screenplays and sold a half dozen. And he’s done it all without an agent or manager, instead opting to use his pragmatic screenplay marketing guide which he teaches at SellingYourScreenplay.com.