In my search for the best possible contest to enter (can't afford them all), the one seemingly legitimate contest I found that doesn't identify themselves publicly in any way/shape/form is The Tracking Board. Does anyone know their background and why the cloak and dagger routine? It appears that the site is owned by a low level producer named Rock Shaink Jr. despite him flatly denying that in several tweets to Franklin Leonard:
https://twitter.com/franklinleonard/...32125765169152
There's also this previous thread that shows Rock Shaink quickly had Deadline edit their post and remove his name in regards to a Lunch Pad winner:
"The script gained some buzz by being tapped as a finalist in the Tracking Board/Launch Pad contest run by Rock Shaink, who’ll produce the film with Wick."
http://messageboard.donedealpro.com/...t=76876&page=6
What gives? Why would every single industry script contest, script hosting, and script analysis site (which it also appears they offer) publicly identify themselves except this one? It also appears there is a great deal of collusion going on in regards to their contest. If you look at the number of scripts that have won either the Tracking Board RECOMMENDS or the Launch Pad Contest, the name Rock Shaink is quite frequently attached as a producer. Seems very fishy. I love the fact that Black List (Franklin), Virtual Pitch Fest (David Zuckerman), Inktip (Jerrol), even Great American PitchFest (Signe) and so on and so on ALL identify themselves and are fully transparent.
It appears that Rock Shaink Jr. is a writer as well. Here's a somewhat humorous review of his film at Sundance:
https://www.popoptiq.com/sundance-20...into-sundance/
Furthermore, tblaunchpad.com is registered to a "Ted Smith" which, in addition to sounding like a fake name, shows zero association in any other web reference to the contest or anywhere on IMDBPro. Very strange.
Can anyone shed some light here?
https://twitter.com/franklinleonard/...32125765169152
There's also this previous thread that shows Rock Shaink quickly had Deadline edit their post and remove his name in regards to a Lunch Pad winner:
"The script gained some buzz by being tapped as a finalist in the Tracking Board/Launch Pad contest run by Rock Shaink, who’ll produce the film with Wick."
http://messageboard.donedealpro.com/...t=76876&page=6
What gives? Why would every single industry script contest, script hosting, and script analysis site (which it also appears they offer) publicly identify themselves except this one? It also appears there is a great deal of collusion going on in regards to their contest. If you look at the number of scripts that have won either the Tracking Board RECOMMENDS or the Launch Pad Contest, the name Rock Shaink is quite frequently attached as a producer. Seems very fishy. I love the fact that Black List (Franklin), Virtual Pitch Fest (David Zuckerman), Inktip (Jerrol), even Great American PitchFest (Signe) and so on and so on ALL identify themselves and are fully transparent.
It appears that Rock Shaink Jr. is a writer as well. Here's a somewhat humorous review of his film at Sundance:
https://www.popoptiq.com/sundance-20...into-sundance/
Furthermore, tblaunchpad.com is registered to a "Ted Smith" which, in addition to sounding like a fake name, shows zero association in any other web reference to the contest or anywhere on IMDBPro. Very strange.
Can anyone shed some light here?
Comment