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Welcome to the Film Connection. We are now over 5 1/2 years old and everyday operations are now shifting between Santa Monica and Oakland each month. Our address and phone is listed on our Contact page. We are the same as the Screenplay Writers Connection, but have changed our name to reflect the expansion of our service. Besides assisting screenplay writers connect with producers, production companies, agents, and managers, we help anyone connect with with film distributors, directors, casting directors, entertainment lawyers, and film festivals. We are now have about 1700 producers and production companies and 900 film agents and managers in our database, with most receptive to e-mails. This includes an e-mail only list of about 600 agents and managers who represent film actors, actresses, and directors, so they can refer scripts to their clients. We have recently added databases with about 250 film festival contacts, 500 film distributors, and over 4000 directors. We can also connect you with about 100 casting directors and 200 entertainment attorneys. The founder of the company, Gini Graham Scott, has recently recently set up a film and TV production company, Changemakers Productions, with offices in Los Angeles and Oakland, California to produce films based on her scripts. The company is working with various production companies on these projects. The first scripts being packaged are Flare Up, New Identity, and Unbalanced, with plans to film next spring in Oakland and Los Angeles. Casting is now underway for Unbalanced.
Our clients not only include screenplay writers, but the U.S. Department of Commerce used our service twice to send out a query for two delegations of senior film executives coming from Hong Kong to the U.S. A noted musician based in England, Adrian Williams, used our service to score a commission to score a film, The List, a full-length romantic comedy by Marcus Folmar, directed by Brandon Sonnier. You can see more details, including clips from the movie, on Adrian's Website. We organized a Film Fair Gala to introduce the business community to the film community and to the Oakland International Film Festival, and Creative Director Gini Graham Scott presented a program on "How to Connect with Film Producers, Production Companies, Agents, and Managers." The Gala was attended by about 150 people, including top political and business leaders in Oakland. As an event high point, Gini Scott received a Certificate of Export Achievement from the U.S. Department of Commerce for her success in finding new clients from China and Mexico for the Screenplay Writers Connection at the Filmart Fair in Hong Kong. The fair was co-sponsored by the Oakland Film Commission and U.S. Department of Commerce's Export Division. Here's a copy of an Oakland Tribune article, which we set up for the Film Fair Gala and Festival. Our worldwide clients are growing, too. We now have clients in China, Taiwan, Mexico, Russia, Indonesia, Australia, the U.K. and Canada, as well as the U.S. You can see our growing number of comments from clients in our Kudos section -- over four dozen, including from the U.S. Department of Commerce and a noted film director and a music composer. This Web site is a companion site to PublishersAndAgents.net, which connects book writers with publishers and agents and writers of articles and columns with syndicates and news services.
Ben and Dale Midgley recently sold their book Golden Circle Secrets to John Wiley. The book is about applying the "golden rule" in business to gain more success.
Also, our company was featured in a Wall Street Journal article and you can see some quotes from this on the Publishers and Agents site. Just go to the latest news there. In other news, we have greatly expanded our query service to connect anyone to the media with about 15,000 contacts in our database. See details at www.newsmediaconnection.com. We also launched a new site to connect game and doll designers with the toy industry. See details at www.gameandtoyconnection.com. We set up a site about a year ago to connect entrepreneurs with venture capitalists and other investors at www.venturecapitalconnection.com. We have a database of over 6000 VCs and private investors and have gotten a great response from our first clients. You can see testimonials from them on our Web site. Our service to connect songwriters to music publishers, record labels, agents, and managers at www.songwritingconnection.com now covers all music genres, including pop, country, gospel, rock, blues, jazz, folk, urban, and hip-hop. Since our first writing service launched nearly 5 4 years ago, over 900 clients have used our services to find interested film producers, production companies, agents, and managers, as well as book editors and literary agents. An agent we work used the service a half-dozen times to query producers and production companies about film rights and scripts based on novels his agency represents. A Chinese director used our service to contact U.S. producers, production companies, and agents about joint production in the U.S., and the U.S. Commercial Service of the U.S. Department of Commerce used our service twice to set up meetings for senior executives of Hong Kong film companies when they came to California.
Additional script information is at www.changemakersproductions.com.
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Based
on repeated requests for sample letters and tips on how to
One
of our clients scored with a hit book about Hollywood -- You'll Never Nanny
in this Town Again by Suzanne Hansen. It recently came out with Crown and
hit the best seller lists. 
Henderson
Wurst
published her book Able!: How One
Company's Disabled Workforce Became the Key to Extraordinary Success
with BenBella
Books. Sue Farren's book The Fireman's
Wife was published by Hyperion in March 2006.
Also, using the service ourselves resulted in
seven deals with
producers
and agents.
We had several producers option a proposal for a television show based on our international contest and book
division
in 2004. We also had several options for
the book