Question for past Nicholl QFs/SFs/Fs

[ATB]

Originally Posted by figment

I listed my QF script as "Action/Drama/Crime" and it is more of a "Thriller/Drama/Crime."

Should I email Nicholl and ask if I can get it changed to "Thriller" as the primary genre before lists go out in a few months?

Can it be called an action movie at all? Is there any action?

If not, that could be misleading to a reader.

[JoeGillis]

Originally Posted by NoNeckJoe

What happens ATB is that people contact you for your logline and base the decision to request on that. So yes, logline is God at Nicholl as well.

This is exactly true. I get contacts about loglines, but then hear silence.

[JoeGillis]

Originally Posted by ATB

Never had someone email me about the logline. I had a lot of requests when I quartered in 2009 and all of them asked for the script straight-up.

Logline was not God for Nicholl, then.

My first placement at Nicholl was in 2004 and that is so far back, I can't remember how things worked back then. I do know the last several years, I've had companies contact me (from my Nicholl placements) asking me to send them the logline of my screenplay. A very few requested the script outright.

[ATB]

Originally Posted by JoeGillis

My first placement at Nicholl was in 2004 and that is so far back, I can't remember how things worked back then. I do know the last several years, I've had companies contact me (from my Nicholl placements) asking me to send them the logline of my screenplay. A very few requested the script outright.

Fair enough. Always confused me as to why they didn't care about the concept.

But I think it has something to do with this distinction: managers vs. producers.

Maybe (and I say this with emphasis), just maybe, a management co. is looking more at the writing than at the concept. And maybe, just maybe, producers are looking more at concept than at the writing.

And now, looking back at the requests I had in 2009, most were from managers/management co's. That may explain why I never received a request for a logline.

[JoeGillis]

Nicholl is to be commended for having the screenplays read, and then having the best screenplays (subjectively speaking of course) advance, regardless of logline/concept. But there is only so much they can do. You can lead a horse to the water, but you can't make them drink. And producers rely (in my opinion) far too heavily on logline. Just my opinion.