Intern - Motion Picture Literary
Agency For The Performing Arts
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Part Time Unpaid Internship
Agency For The Performing Arts | Fall 2018 | NYC
Seeking two interns for the Fall. The interns will come to APA (Agency for the Performing Arts) once a week to pick up reading materials, typically a book, for coverage. The coverage will be done at home and on the students' own time. They will then sit with Lucy Stille (Literary and Motion Picture Agent) in her office for one hour a week to discuss the previous week's reading. The goal of this meeting is to determine if the property is something that we should take on for film and TV, so students will learn what elements we look for in identifying commercial material. If we decide that the material does have film and TV potential, the interns will participate in mapping out a strategy for how to present the material to the marketplace.
We will cover the following topics:
What is the difference between an independent project and a studio project?
What producers are appropriate?
How do we decide that?
What are book scouts?
Are there elements that would enhance the material significantly and increase its chances of being optioned/sold?
What is the best way to approach the talent? This involves a discussion of the agent/manager landscape.
What is the best way to pitch the project?
What is an effective pitch?
What is the process once a project goes to market and how does an agent ''work'' that process?
This internship gives students an understanding of how an agency approaches material and allows them to see what happens to a piece of material when it hits the marketplace. Interns will generate sample coverage that could later be used in applying for a job at a studio or production company. They will learn how to make actor/director lists. They will develop their own abilities to pitch and talk about material.
About Lucy: Lucy Stille has represented storytellers in the film and television business since 1985. Her clients include writers/directors John Sayles and Raymond DeFelitta, Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Nilo Cruz and bestselling authors David Baldacci, Tami Hoag and Erik Larson.
She began her career at Playwrights Horizons in New York, and went on to work as a publishing agent at Sanford J. Greenburger Associates. She moved to Los Angeles in 1985 and ran the boutique agency Schorr, Stille before helping to create the Paradigm agency in 1993. During her twenty years at Paradigm, she helped it grow from a boutique agency into the fifth largest agency in Hollywood.
After moving back to New York in 2008, Lucy is now a literary and motion picture agent at the Agency for the Performing Arts, where she continues to work to develop new voices for film and television as well as seek out underlying literary material that could be the basis for film and TV series. She has launched the careers of numerous writers and directors, and has always been passionate about nurturing new talent. As part of that commitment, Lucy has taught at both USC's Stark Producing Program and NYU's Tisch School for the Arts.
ACADEMIC CREDIT IS REQUIRED.