I have been pitching literary managers for some time now. My fellow budding filmmakers and video producers, if you want to get stories made into feature films or TV shows or whatever format our visual stories will take on in the next 10 and 20 years, right now there are still a lot of gatekeepers surrounding the industry. The data suggest that directing your own material is the best way for a no-name like me or you to break in. Nonetheless, some of us will still want to pursue this avenue of getting an idea in front of a literary manager to be made into a film. Even JJ Abrams started off as a screenwriter and seemingly countless other filmmakers that are creating visual stories even today. Here is a list of things that you should not be doing in the course of these cold pitches.

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