For filmmakers, videographers, and editors

Your first paying commercial client in 90 days. Or I work with you free until it happens.

You can make the work. Nobody ever showed you where the money sits. Watch the short breakdown, then apply for one of ten founding seats.

The 9 Minute Breakdown

Video drops this week. The full written breakdown is on this page below.

The First Client System: Position, Map, Approach, Close. Two live group calls a week. Every template I use. Ten seats, founding cohort, application only.

Apply for a founding seat

Takes 4 minutes. Costs nothing. I reply personally within 24 hours.

15+ years in the film industry · Founder, The Screenwriters Lab · Live calls twice weekly, recorded always

Why talented filmmakers stay broke.

Here is what every talented filmmaker does. You build a reel. You post it. You wait. You make a website that says you do video production. And nothing happens, because video production is not a thing any business owner wakes up needing.

Meanwhile the money is real. Local and regional businesses spend thousands per project on video that is worse than what you would make. The person who got the job was not better. They were findable, specific, and easy to say yes to.

The national brands you dream about hire through agencies, almost never direct. But the regional layer: healthcare groups, home services companies, real estate teams, franchises, and the agencies serving all of them, is reachable by you, this month, with no ads and no following.

Four steps, in order.

01

POSITION

We kill the words I do video and build your one line offer: one outcome, for one industry, priced like a professional. This alone is why identical talent gets quoted at five hundred or five thousand.

02

MAP

Together we build your thirty business target list from the reachable money in your region. Not dream brands. Businesses that already spend on video and answer their own phones.

03

APPROACH

The outreach system that books conversations without ads, without posting daily, and without feeling like spam. The exact first message, the follow up cadence, and the portfolio of one page that makes saying yes easy.

04

CLOSE AND KEEP

Price the first deal without panic, run the shoot like an agency, and turn client one into clients two and three through the referral system.

What happens after you apply

01

Apply.

Eight questions, about four minutes, costs nothing.

02

Book your call.

If it fits, you pick a 15 minute slot the moment you finish applying.

03

Decide.

You get a clear yes or no within 24 hours, and everything you need to start.

Live, together, twice a week.

The Strategy Call

Two hours live each week. Teaching plus hot seats: your positioning and your target list reviewed in the room.

The Execution Call

Two hours live each week. We write and send real outreach together, review responses, and work your active deals.

The Template Vault

The target list builder, outreach scripts, pricing calculator, proposal template, and shoot day checklist. Every document I use.

Between Calls

A private community space and async reviews. Questions answered daily. Every call recorded, so you never fall behind.

Land your first paying client in 90 days. Or stay in free until you do.

This is not a refund guarantee. It is stronger. If you do the work and the client has not landed by day 90, you stay in the program at no cost until it happens. Doing the work means: attend or watch both weekly calls, complete your thirty business map by day 14, send twenty outreaches a week from day 15, and log your activity weekly. That is the whole contract, written into your enrollment, in plain language.

This fits if

  • You can shoot, edit, or direct at a professional level
  • You have at least one piece of work you are proud of
  • You can give the calls plus 3 to 5 hours a week to outreach
  • You want commercial clients, not festival luck

This is not for

  • Complete beginners still learning the craft
  • Anyone hoping clients arrive without doing outreach
  • Anyone who cannot attend or watch the weekly calls

Ten seats. That is real, not a tactic.

Two hours twice a week with real attention on your deals does not stretch past ten people, so the founding cohort is capped at ten. Founding members get the lowest price this program will ever have: when the founding cohort produces its case studies, the price goes up, and that is not marketing, it is just what happens to things that work. The application is free and takes about four minutes. If it fits, I reply personally within 24 hours with everything, including the founding terms.

Apply for a founding seat

Asked and answered.

You will notice there are no testimonials on this page. That is because this is the founding cohort, and I refuse to invent proof. What you are buying is fifteen years of industry judgment, a system with a deadline and witnesses, and a guarantee with teeth. When the founding ten land their clients, their stories will sit right here. That is the point of joining now.

Brandon, Founder, The Screenwriters Lab

Your first client is not a mystery.

It is a system, a deadline, and a room. The application takes four minutes.

Apply for a founding seat