Let's-Do-Lunch -- Services & Networking For Screenwriters

Let's-Do-Lunch

Lunch with a development exec at a Let's-Do-Lunch event opens
the door to a new career in Hollywood for a screenwriter.

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EXT. EARTH, WIND & FLOUR - ESTAB. - DAY

Along Wilshire Boulevard at 22nd Street in Santa Monica, just minutes from the ocean, a VALET waits to park the cars of the writers arriving for Let’s Do Lunch.

Fifteen SCREENWRITERS, armed with one-page synopses, take their parking tickets and enter-

INT. EARTH, WIND & FLOUR - 10:30 AM

Greeted by the inviting smells of roasting garlic and baking pizza, writers head past the sawdusted floors and wooden tables of the quaint and funky café to–

INT. EARTH, WIND & FLOUR - PRIVATE ROOM - CONTINUOUS

Small, intimate with wooden floors and four tables draped with tablecloths. Writers meet and greet before being invited to take their seats in readiness for a refresher course on pitching from SANDI STEINBERG on "Creating the Short Pitch".

Following this mini-seminar, each writer practices pitches with either Sandi, BONNIE or ANDY.

At 11:45, production executives begin to arrive and sit at one of the tables, while screenwriters take their assigned seats and order an entree from a pre-set menu.

AND LET THE PITCHING BEGIN

At each table, five writers and one executive are seated.

For 40 minutes over salad and rolls, writers pitch to the first exec

The main course is served just after the execs switch tables. Five new writers promote their stories to them for the next 40 minutes.

The executives change tables once more and for the last 40 minutes, over dessert, they hear pitches from the five writers they have yet to talk to.

From 2:00-2:30 execs and screenwriters network.

At 2:30, all in attendance bid their goodbyes, having made new contacts and feeling excited about new possibilities.

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