Jobs at Open Screenplay

We evolved to tell stories. Thirty thousand years ago, many human species roamed the earth, but only Homo sapiens survived. Anthropologists believe it’s because our minds evolved the ability to imagine and tell stories that inspired and enabled our survival. We’re a species of storytellers, yet movies and TV shows, the most powerful medium of storytelling, are very exclusive. Our minds are structured to tell stories and they’re filled with unique ideas, but we can’t do much about it. Why? Hollywood is an industry surrounded by gatekeepers. There are enormous barriers to entry for new storytellers and screenwriters. In fact, 50,000 screenplays submitted to Writers Guild of America every year, but only 0.3% are made into films. All the while, screenwriting is a lonely pursuit. Furthermore, sourcing quality screenplay is difficult and costly. Studios & networks employ humans to vet screenplays and a human can process an average of 2 screenplays per day. Such a process is exposed to frequent human error & subjectivity. Meanwhile, there’s a $63 billion demand for entertainment content. In 2017, tech companies (Netflix, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, YouTube) alone spent $15 billion dollars on content and the market grows in size every. How will this demand be met? Open Screenplay aims to satisfy the voracious appetite for original, quality screenplays by using crowdsourcing, elegant design & structure, A.I. & big data in one platform that will increase the flow of quality content and drive enormous revenue. By releasing story structure to the world and walking its users through the screenwriting process, Open Screenplay brings together people from across the globe with different backgrounds, experiences, and stories to collaborate on writing screenplays.