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Aaron and Malik at the First Team Networking Event 2009

First Team is a mini-Hollywood.

Everything you do in mainstream Hollywood, you do in First Team. You make connections, follow-up with contacts, read scripts, watch reels, and take meetings.

The difference is we make Hollywood manageable.

We bring together talented alumni writers, directors, and producers who are interested in similar projects. We make it easy for participants to find fellow filmmakers who want to collaborate and get projects off the ground.

What’s more, we cultivate relationships with industry affiliates, who want to work with our teams.

Make no mistake – we don’t silver-platter anything. We don’t hand out contact info sheets. We don’t relay messages to other participants. We don’t assign teammates. We don’t mediate disagreements between teammates.

First Team is a professional organization run by working industry professionals. We provide an opportunity and a support structure to help our participants launch their projects.

We kick everything off at our First Team Networking Event.

First Team Networking Event

Selected SCA network alums bring their ideas and enthusiasm to the Robert Zemeckis soundstages. They participate in a speed-networking session. Writers meet directors and producers and “thrice-versa” for mini-meetings. We’ll hold approximately 1,900 meetings in 2.5 hours. It’s intense and exciting.

The networking event is MANDATORY. No exceptions. If you’re getting married, adopting a child from Russia, or celebrating your grandmother’s 100th birthday on July 17th – congrats! We encourage you to apply next year.

Actively seeking micro-budget scripts and ideas

We want micro-budget projects! We feel our program can fill this niche very well.

The micro-budget category is any film that can be shot for $500,000K or less. Micro-budgets generally have limited locations and cast. Films to reference include Paranormal Activity, Hard Candy, Open Water, Brick, Primer, Pi, Following, Tadpole and Pieces of April.

The micro-budget category is the only category we’re accepting ideas/pitches as well as finished scripts.

For all higher budget pitches, we are only considering completed scripts. All scripts must have a completed first draft by July 17th.



The application deadline is Friday, May 21st!