Screenwriters' Agency and Management Company, South Africa
To Submit Your Script:
Step 1:
Send us an email or a message here on FB if you want to send us a script and we'll forward the Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) to you to fill in and sign. The NDA is a document in which you promise us you own the work and we promise not to share it without your permission. Step 2:
We send you the admin fee
invoice that's either R130 (for short films and webisodes) or R150 (for feature length films and TV concepts / scripts). Step 3:
When you've paid the invoice you send the proof of payment to [email protected] and your film's / show's synopsis, treatment and script. Step 4:
It takes us between 4 to 6 weeks to send feedback regarding representation because of the influx of scripts. NOTE:
Although the initial R150 (per feature or series - web and TV) or R130 (for short films or webisode) cover the reading, it does not mean we will represent you. DIRECTORS, PRODUCERS, ACTORS, BROADCASTERS & DISTRIBUTORS:
You do not pay for inquiring about screenplays. In your great search for the perfect screenplay, you only need to sign a standard Non-Disclosure Agreement. MORE ABOUT US AND WHAT WE DO:
Our agency is quite different from the international standard agency. We not only read your scripts and analyse it to see who we can sell it to and then sell it lock, stock and barrel, we follow your instructions on whether you want to retain certain rights or be co-producer, etc. and we negotiate the contracts on your behalf, which overseas is done by an entertainment lawyer separate of the agency. We also have a department for Writers-for-hire where we help you to further your professional scriptwriting career. When you read tips about agencies you will often see that you shouldn't trust an agency that requires a Readers' fee or that operates from a small office in the middle of nowhere. Our office is a virtual office because it is cost effective and our Readers Fee is an admin fee to register your script on our database, which our agents have access to. We have to analyse your script first before we can offer representation and base our decision on the script's quality, character depth, genre, market segmentation allocation (audience), current calls for scripts, etc. If we cannot represent you we will give advice and reasons why not. We also, if you agree to it, keep your script's logline in our database and if a call comes in that is inline with what you have written we contact you and negotiate a way forward for representation. If we sign you up as client you don't pay us to be your agent. We receive a commission of 15% for the total price of your script / show concept for the packaging, marketing and sale, plus, if necessary, proofreading your subsequent drafts and rewrites for the producer who buys it. Rest assured that we have your best interests at heart and in so doing work closely with the Writers' Guild of South Africa who is a full member of the International Association for Writers' Guilds (that includes Britain's guild and America's WGA West and East, etc.). Please feel free to ask us more about our processes and even concerns you have regarding the industry by sending an email to [email protected]
