Film Courage: What are the different ways a writer can find an agent?
Carole Kirschner, Entertainment Career Coach, Speaker & Author: It’s a question I get asked all the time. There are a number of ways, one is to enter a contest and come in first. If you are a quarter finalist that’s not going to do anything. As I said before, if you’re a quarter finalist in the Shmegegge Film Festival nobody is looking at that. If you are in a very prestigious competition and you come in first or second, agents and managers will find you. The annoying thing is that agents (when you say How does somebody get an agent?) they say Don’t worry, when you’re ready we’ll find you. There’s a lot of truth in that no matter how annoying it is.
Another way is if it’s television and you can get into one of the network fellowships they will introduce you to agents and managers. If you can find a mentorship program they will introduce you to their agents or managers.
If you do a one woman/one man/one person show and you put it up and it has a fantastic reaction, that’s how…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
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Carole Kirschner spent fifteen years as a television development executive. A former Vice President of Television for Steven Spielberg’s first Amblin Entertainment and a Comedy Development exec at CBS, she’s had the privilege of working with some of the most respected writers in the industry.
Switching to the other side of the desk she became a consultant and created and runs the CBS/Paramount Writers Mentoring Program, which has helped launch the careers of more than eighty television writers of color, including 14 showrunners. Because of her work with CBS she was asked to help writer/producer Jeff Melvoin as he developed the curriculum for the WGA Showrunner Training Program and as the Director has been running the Program for 18 years.
Ms. Kirschner, through her career coaching practice, Carole Kirschner Entertainment Career Strategies (carolekirschner dot com) works primarily with screenwriters who are stuck or need help navigating the political landscape. She recently launched the successful online course, “How to Pitch a TV Show That Sells” and is gearing up for her new online course, “Get the F Unstuck: Break Through and Create Your Ideal Hollywood Career” in late spring. She is also an international speaker and her book, Hollywood Game Plan: How to Land a Job in Film, TV and Digital Entertainment is taught in colleges across the country.
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