Welcome to TalentScout International Management
Taking winning screenwriters to the top since 1999. All of our clients have stood out from their peers and competitors and received our studio-quality mentoring and script development.
Built From The Best
Founded by Dr. Alex Ross, TSIM has been selling scripts to the international entertainment industry for decades. He has been an agent of acclaimed writers and former co-agent of Quentin Tarantino, and previously an MGM Script Analyst. He has a doctorate on why films succeed and fail has lectured on film at Oxford and Yale Universities.
Partnered with WriteMovies
WriteMovies have been running successful global screenwriting contests since 1999, once described by MovieMaker Magazine as having ‘a virtual monopoly on… the concept of world cinema’.
Built Upon How The Industry Works
We put exclusive insights and input into our clients’ projects from Hollywood writing experts, with approaches and tools you won’t find anywhere else.
Highly Experienced Mentors and Dealmakers
We’ve helped thousands of writers to improve their scripts and work with the industry since the 1990s.
Industry-Quality Insights
We provide free Consultancy/Mentoring reports to show our clients the current standing of their project in the marketplace and our advice compared to what producers and commissioners are looking for.
Current Clients
All our clients have stood out in a WriteMovies contest or in our dealings with them in other contexts.
Nicholas Horwood - BAFTA nominee
HOLLYWOOD, CA – JANUARY 07: Writer Nick Horwood arrives at Final Draft Annual Awards presenting The Hall Of Fame Screenwriters Choice Awards and Big Break Contest screenwriting winners at Paramount Theater on the Paramount Studios lot on January 7, 2014 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Beck Starr/WireImage)
NICHOLAS HORWOOD is a BAFTA nominated screenwriter. His horror THE GOOD PEOPLE was selected for the 2011 Brit List, and his horror-comedy LANDFILL was selected for the 2014 Bitch List (a list of Bechdel Test qualifying screenplays). His thriller KINDHAWK has director Tina Gharavi (Netflix’s QUEEN CLEOPATRA) attached to direct.
Contact talent@atalentscout.com to connect with Nicholas now.
Brendan Kelly (OZ, CON AIR)
Former long-term sparring partner to Mike Tyson, Brendan Kelly memorably appeared in HBO prison drama OZ and supporting John Malkovich’s villain in CON AIR – and nowadays he’s a accomplished writer of crime and mafia stories! Contact talent@atalentscout.com to connect with Brendan now.
Vanisha Renee Pierce - multiple award winner
A shameless blerd and bookworm since the age of five, Vanisha Renée Pierce is a sci-fi and fantasy novelist and screenwriter obsessed with genre mashups, sci-fi noir, breakneck action, and TV writing.
She holds an M.S. in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an MFA in Theatre Arts & Generative Dramaturgy from the University of Arizona, and is an aspiring polyglot.
She currently teaches Theatre at Democracy Prep Endurance High School in Harlem and is the mom of the most awesome little human ever. Every story she writes sits at the intersection of the BIPOC and the bleeding edge and combines the sable with sci-fi.
Her published works include The Books of Ezekiel novel series, The Camille, EverDark, and she’s currently working on the first novel of her brand new BIPOC survival horror series, Surrogate.
Find out some of her successes here and what marks her out here! Contact talent@atalentscout.com to connect with Vanisha now.
Jeremy Thompson
Jeremy Thompson is the indie horror fictionist whose mind and fingers united to birth The Phantom Cabinet, Let’s Destroy Investutech, Victor Dickens and the Silent Minority, The Land of Broken Sky, Toby Chalmers Commits “Career” Suicide, Toby Chalmers Hits a New Low, and Outréverse. His stories have appeared in magazines and anthologies such as Year’s Best Hardcore Horror Volumes 2 and 4, Into the Darkness Volume 1, DarkFuse, Journal of Experimental Fiction, This Book Ain’t Nuttin to Fuck With, and Brewtality, and been collected in Sweet Chuckling Morbidity and A Carcass of Genre. A San Diego State University graduate, Jeremy resides in Oceanside, California.
Contact talent@atalentscout.com to connect with Jeremy now.
Michael Rhodes
“I taught science and English in several states as my young family moved for graduate schools. One weekend I went to a marine park on Vancouver Island. A traumatized orca wouldn’t perform so the trainer banged a cowbell on the side of the concrete tank to punish her. Appalled, I suddenly felt an excruciating pain in my ears, and a profound empathy for the confined orca. The show canceled, I walked alongside the pool in the now empty arena, and inexplicably, I began to sing to her. No, I began to keen. Slowly she rose in the pool and joined me in a painful duet. Somehow, in images, she conveyed the horror of living in a concrete prison with her extraordinary, heightened senses, and being forced to hear free orca out in Puget Sound, knowing she could never join them. An audience raced to observe us, and the frantic orca dove to privacy. I returned to Washington. One day I called the park to see how she was doing. She had drowned attempting to escape.
I began my first story at night after the children went to bed. I tried to imagine the orca escaping, but she always died. When I submitted the script in Hollywood I kept hearing about an upbeat orca tale about to be released. Free Willy. I put my orca story on hold for a few decades, and raised children.
Later, while traveling to record questions for a science radio program I found time to write. The orca matured into a humpback whale. Four editors later, two additional scripts, many contests, and many awards followed. In the next installment of the bio, Steven Spielberg returns to the sea.”
Contact talent@atalentscout.com to connect with Michael now.
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Why us?
We’ve been selling scripts and other works to the international entertainment industry for decades and develop writers of ANY age and experience level. If you’re considering film school, you don’t have to leave the house or go $100k into debt! No one gives you an industry writing job because you went to a specific film school. You get one because of the quality of your writing sample. Our complete course is a fraction of the $100k cost of Film School and available from home wherever you are, in your own time!
NOBODY is better qualified than our founder Dr. Alex Ross in why films succeed and fail. He's:
- A top former agent who represented Quentin Tarantino, Andrew Niccol etc and other top writers,
- Producer of a theatrical feature film that was distributed by Warner Bros,
- Creator of an entertainment company he sold to Sandra Bullock,
- A BAFTA member,
- Founder of WriteMovies.com, described as having a ‘virtual monopoly… on the concept of global cinema’ by MovieMaker Magazine,
- A collaborator with multi-award-winning directors, and,
- In 2020 he completed a DOCTORATE at Oxford University, on why films succeed and fail. He has a unique insight, based on thousands of case studies, on the key replicable elements which make a film succeed. Since then he’s gone on to lecture on film at global elite universities – Oxford University and Yale University – and been regularly featured in Newsweek magazine!
Looking to be represented?
Enter your script to any WriteMovies service – it’ll automatically be considered for representation, and if it gets any of the winning places in our contests we’ll guarantee representation!
Enter at WriteMovies now to be considered for representation!
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Enter above, then email WriteMovies your script.
Email us at info@writemovies.com to enter after payment, or to discuss your needs and get a personalized offer!
Payment is also available in $CAD, $AUD and £GBP.
Promoting great global storytelling since 1999.
Since we were established in Hollywood in 1999 we’ve been the company who help you choose the best scripts and projects, develop them to their fulfil their potential, and get them sold and produced, with two Oscar-nominated writers among our notable success stories. Our acclaimed services and contests mirror how your script will fare in the industry right now.
I wanted to write a short note to say how much I enjoy working with WriteMovies. The professional way in which you work with the writers and the analysts makes the experience of giving and receiving screenplay notes a painless one and as a result allows the creative process to flow smoothly. Any writer looking to move their script to a higher level can’t go wrong by turning to WriteMovies for feedback.
