Re: Imagine Impact Using AI to Select Candidates...
Finalact4 -- I hope I'm wrong! But I don't think so.
Sundance Lab is an example of the older system. They ask a brief set of questions and ask you to submit the first five pages of your script. They get around 10-12k entries for the feature film labs. Interns eyeball those pages and then make requests for full scripts. I've heard they ask for full scripts from about 3-5% of the entrants. From the full script round, they do phone interviews and then pare it down to a smaller set of folks who get in person interviews. And then they make the final cut.
This lab is doing the same process, but is using automation to cut down the first round and videos to help with the phone/in person interview step.
It's not necessarily nefarious -- Sundance probably used the in-person interview for the same reasons. It just feels less obvious.
I do think there is a legitimate chance to get into the II lab if your pages are fantastic AND you have the right profile for the lab. But I don't think the selection process is just on pages alone.
The problem with the Imagine Impact process is that they could miss some good candidates if they fall outside the parameters whereas the Sundance Lab process is less likely to miss candidates.
I've done the Sundance process four times, and my full script has been requested twice. So I know someone actually read my pages, at least when I submitted. As my application in general was pretty average.
Finalact4 -- I hope I'm wrong! But I don't think so.
Sundance Lab is an example of the older system. They ask a brief set of questions and ask you to submit the first five pages of your script. They get around 10-12k entries for the feature film labs. Interns eyeball those pages and then make requests for full scripts. I've heard they ask for full scripts from about 3-5% of the entrants. From the full script round, they do phone interviews and then pare it down to a smaller set of folks who get in person interviews. And then they make the final cut.
This lab is doing the same process, but is using automation to cut down the first round and videos to help with the phone/in person interview step.
It's not necessarily nefarious -- Sundance probably used the in-person interview for the same reasons. It just feels less obvious.
I do think there is a legitimate chance to get into the II lab if your pages are fantastic AND you have the right profile for the lab. But I don't think the selection process is just on pages alone.
The problem with the Imagine Impact process is that they could miss some good candidates if they fall outside the parameters whereas the Sundance Lab process is less likely to miss candidates.
I've done the Sundance process four times, and my full script has been requested twice. So I know someone actually read my pages, at least when I submitted. As my application in general was pretty average.
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