Kate was an ambitious and passionate writer whose dream is to write screenplays for famous producers and directors when she came to Lagos. She met two or three producers who read her scripts and returned it because the story didn’t work for them. Kate could stake her life on it that the producers used her story but since she doesn’t have the financial muscle to fight legally, she left the screenwriting career on the shelf for good.
That is the story of many Nigerian aspiring writers but I am one of the few blessed one who didn’t get ripped off at the inception. I am so blessed that my first writing engagement fee was a verbal contract and the man paid on the due date.
Many years have passed but cases of rip off still happens everyday. I feel that every writer’s journey doesn’t have to be stalled by fraudsters and sequel to that, stellarmovies.com, a screenwriting agency was born to be the first contact point for green screenwriters.
The vision is to provide a sense of direction for their lives and an assurance about the future. If stellarmovies.com is to do a walk-protest, banners will have slogans like, ‘don’t dupe screenwriters’, ‘screenwriters; the foundation of every movie’ and stuffs like that.
The walk has begun already, so call on every Kate you know to remove their screenwriting skills off the shelf, dust it and bring it to the altar of creativity and competence and character.
“For every screenwriter who has a story to tell, your voice will be heard”.
