Creative Executive, Film

This is a Full Time Job

Creative Executive, Film The Confluential Company
Role Description
The Confluential Company seeks a Creative Executive, Film. This position requires a track record of successful film development and proven industry relationships. You must have the ability to identify exceptional material and give creative guidance and feedback to top level talent on concepts, IP, pitches, and scripts. Comprehensive knowledge of and experience working with top-tier film talent, as well as talent from a variety of artistic mediums, required. You will be joining a self-motivated, passionate, and highly collaborative team environment. This position reports to the Head of Film.

Responsibilities
• Work with the film department to manage the creative strategy on projects in development, helping writers shape stories from concept through script.
• Work closely with writers to develop story and scripts. Participate in notes calls and meetings.
• Read and Cover Submissions
• Build and maintain relationships with creatives, executives, managers, and agents to scout emerging voices/potential collaborators
• Create and maintain a comprehensive writer database covering samples, credits, script notes, meeting notes, and representation.
• Conducting research as needed and maintain general tracking of industry players, overall deals, trends, and the competitive landscape.
• Create writer, department head and talent lists based on the needs of a project.
• Coordinate and interface with other departments including but not limited to: marketing,business affairs, legal, PR, creative, production, and post-production teams.
• Cover set on our projects in production if need be (set experience is a plus, but not mandatory)
• Sourcing and support of creative projects.

Qualifications
• At the minimum have spent 1 year successfully on the desks of SVP/EVP/Pres of studio divisions
OR someone who has worked for 1-2 years with a studio film producer.
• Extremely organized with a high attention to detail.
• Knowledge of industry talent and trends.
• Have exceptional artistic vision and creative skills to develop an original film
• Broad network of writers, producers, and artists
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Excellent story skills.
• Promptness & sense of urgency; you understand the importance of being on-time and acting with
urgency on all matters.
• Solutions-oriented: no problem is too small or too big to handle.
• Can-do attitude: you are energized by chaos and thrive in environments with ambiguity.
• Highly organized and comfortable in a fast-paced environment, ability to prioritize large volume of
projects.
• Must be detail oriented, proactive, organized, and can follow-up often and in a friendly and
courteous manner.
• Bachelor's degree is highly preferred, but not required.

About The Confluential Company
Founded by multi-hyphenate filmmaker Tommy Oliver, The Confluential Company is an entertainment production company devoted to championing projects that are inclusive and celebrate our shared human experience. We are deeply committed to authentic storytelling, where those who should be telling a given story will be the only ones doing so in anything with which we're involved.
We create across film, TV (scripted and unscripted), and documentaries, and our past projects include the AFI Audience-Award winner Juice WRLD: Into the Abyss, the critically acclaimed HBO documentary 40 Years A Prisoner (TIFF), the ground-breaking docuseries Black Love on OWN (now in post on season 6), the Sony thriller The Perfect Guy (opened #1 in the country), and the award-winning indies 1982 (TIFF), Jinn (SXSW), and Kinyarwanda (Sundance). A few of our upcoming projects include The Perfect Find starring Gabrielle Union for Netflix, Die Like A Man starring Cory Hardrict, an Untitled NFL Story with Joel Kinneman and Jon Bernthal, and a four-part series for Hulu.