About Coverfly Archives - Page 2 of 2

Aug 02

Announcing Coverfly Pitch Week

By coverfly About Coverfly, Announcements

We’re very excited to announce Coverfly Pitch Week.

Pitch Week is a free-for-writers initiative that pairs talented emerging writers with industry professionals for virtual general meetings. These virtual meetings allow writers to pitch themselves and their projects to industry pros (agents, managers, and producers).

Coverfly Pitch Week is unique in two simple ways:

Coverfly Pitch Week is free.
Coverfly Pitch Week is merit-based. Writers opt-in to having their profile reviewed on Coverfly, and we select the top writers for Pitch Week.

Managers and agents who choose to hear pitches from top Coverfly writers understand that the writers they’ll be hearing from are talented and uniquely ready to have their work optioned or sign with a literary agent and/or manager.

We quietly launched our first Pitch Week in January 2019. We set up 160 virtual meetings between about 50 writers selected from The Red List and 20 representatives from companies such as CAA, Good Fear, Circle of Confusion, Zero Gravity, Lee Stobby Entertainment, Cartel Entertainment, and Management 360, among several others. We have since run three additional Pitch Weeks and facilitated writers signing with reps, landing paid assignment work, and optioning their projects.

Now, we’re opening it up to all Coverfly members to apply to have their profile and work reviewed. We'll be running this event 2-3 times per year - so be sure to apply every few months. Are you interested in practicing your pitch and meeting industry professionals who are looking for talented emerging writers? Apply for free now!

See what writers are saying about Coverfly Pitch Week:

"Coverfly's Pitch Week was a great icebreaker to gain access to the people who make things happen- it's a good opportunity to be read and considered, everything else is up to the quality of writing."
Brock Newell

"Coverfly is unique. They actually care. They care about their writers and want to do what they can to facilitate their success. So grateful to have a platform to be "heard.""
Beth Curry

"The chance to chat briefly with legit lit managers for free seemed too good to be true. But it was just as promised. A great opportunity for screenwriters trying to break in."
Clint Williams

"The Coverfly Pitch Week is a great way to connect with reps from the comfort of your own living room, and given that you've only got 12 minutes, having that comfort zone helps make the most out of your limited time."
Ned Farr

"I love Coverfly! Submitting my work to various contests and placing or winning them is great, but driving up that Coverfly score is almost more gratifying. A great score draws attention and, in this industry, that is what we are all looking for."
Karl Archer

"Coverfly has been an absolutely incredible experience for me from top to bottom! Not only has it provided me valuable exposure and reads through the Red List, it’s also afforded me some invaluable opportunities to connect and meet with some amazing executives! Not to mention the fantastic staff at Coverfly who have been nothing but caring, wonderful and unwavering in their support! Oh yeah, and did I mention it’s all FREE? I am so grateful to have Coverfly in my corner!"
Aarthi Ramanathan

"Coverfly keeps expanding their free services, helping to connect writers with managers, agents and producers in search of powerful material to represent and produce. It's a fantastic matchmaking service that benefits both sides of the industry."
Cari Daly

"Coverfly is responsive, attentive, and really cares about their writers. I feel like they take an active interest in me and my career."
Robin Fusco

"Coverfly is a fantastic service! It's obvious that the Coverfly team have a sincere passion for helping new talent breakthrough!"
Mukilan Thangamani

"Coverfly has been great as a site where I can show that I'm a writer that's less of a risk to take a chance with, and won't waste anyone's valuable time."
Erik Sternberger

"Kudos to Coverfly! This organization is extremely classy. I felt like they had my back every step of the way. "
Heather Ragsdale

"Coverfly is great for streamlining the process of submitting my scripts, but for them to proactively set up ACTUAL manager meetings through 'Pitch Week' was a totally unexpected benefit that takes the service to another level. Looking forward to seeing this continue to grow as a resource and opportunity for writers."
Gareth Smith

"Coverfly raised the profile of my scripts for the past year. Now Coverfly Pitch Week has given me an extraordinary opportunity to introduce myself and my work to some top reps in a relaxed setting. Thanks much, Coverfly!"
John Dummer

"After only a year of entering contests, I am certain much of the success I’ve received was directly related to Coverfly. My script is not the norm, so their support has helped it move up the ladder at a significantly faster pace. They actively promoted me as a writer and have set up meetings with top representation. They have also invested their time and energy coming up with ways to support me as a filmmaker. If you get taken under their wing, Coverfly offers a writer, free of charge, more than you could ever ask for."
Nicole Jones

"Coverfly Pitch Week was an unexpected surprise...just having the chance to connect with managers was really fantastic. I appreciate Coverfly doing all they can to help writers."
Ervin Anderson

"This was a great opportunity to pitch to managers and make introductions that typically aren't open to writers. Thank you for making the connection."
Rich Orstad

"Coverfly is a refreshingly democratic and merit-based ranking system that encourages writers to improve and to branch out while giving them an effective platform to be seen by decision makers. Can't wait for the next Pitch Week!"
Carlo and Erin Carere

May 23

Love1

Coverfly Data Use and Privacy Updates

By coverfly About Coverfly

Judging by how boring this blog post title is, there's a good chance you won't read beyond this first sentence - but you should be interested in how Coverfly handles your data! Please read this post for a quick summary of our data policy.

TL;DR: we're GDPR compliant which means we're committed to protecting your data to the highest standards.

In our effort to provide the best quality service to all our users (writers, administrators and industry professionals), we've made some updates to our Data Policy and Terms of Service. All of these updates merely clarify how and when we use your information. You can read our full Data Policy here, and we've distilled some of the key points for easy reading:

We won't sell your data to a third party or advertiser.
We will only collect and use data that is essential to providing you with our services.
We give our users full control to choose how, when and if their data is displayed or shared.
Projects are only included in our database that is searchable by industry professionals if and when you choose to add them to the searchable database. By default all projects are private and not searchable.
Additionally, because some producers, managers and agents have asked to be able to search by a writers' and/or characters' gender, sexual orientation or ethnicity, we may allow users to optionally include this information in their user profiles.

As you probably know, Coverfly is a submissions management platform for third party organizations, and for our users who choose to create Coverfly accounts to track the status and history of their project submissions via Coverfly's Writer Dashboard. Coverfly is also a database of unproduced screenplays to which writers may opt in, and which vetted entertainment industry professionals (such as agents, literary managers and producers) may search for projects, writers and filmmakers.

Coverfly's organizational partners (film festivals, screenwriting competitions, labs, fellowships, writing workshops and conferences) each have their own terms of service and data privacy policies. We recommend that all our users make themselves familiar with the terms of service and privacy policies of each organization to which they submit their information via our Services. We have reached out to each of our organizational partners urging them to have clear, transparent, fair and compliant data and privacy policies.

We're dedicated to complying with global standards of data use and transparency, such as The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which is a regulation in EU law on data protection and privacy for all individuals within the European Union, as well as exporting user data outside of the EU. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to email our team at any time for a prompt response: support@coverfly.com.

Jan 25

Love1

A Brief Introduction to Coverfly for Writers

By coverfly About Coverfly

What is Coverfly?

Coverfly is three things:

Writer Dashboard – a writer-centric platform designed to help emerging screenwriters track successes across competitions, fellowships, labs, festivals and talent-discovery platforms
Partner Dashboard – a software platform for screenwriting competitions, festivals, fellowships, labs and writing retreats to manage submissions, readers and evaluations
Industry Dashboard – a universal database of unproduced film and TV screenplays (by default screenplays are private until and unless writers choose to opt in) that vetted industry professionals can peruse for screenplays and writers they may be interested in optioning, purchasing, signing or producing

We realized that even the best writing programs only actively promote their winners. Coverfly is an opportunity for you to take the best of your contest and coverage evaluations and aggregate them into a composite metric that can help you gain exposure and can help the industry easily gauge your project’s potential quality.

Ultimately, our intent is to help you put your competition successes to work. Coverfly is free to use for writers and doesn’t have any of its own competitions. We explain how we make money later in this introduction.

The Coverfly Rank

The metric we’ve designed to quantify your projects’ evaluations is called a Coverfly Rank.

Without diving into the details of the algorithm, it’s important to note that the Coverfly Rank is not a metric of quality, it’s a metric of confidence of quality, which increases with strong scores or placements. Read more about the nitty-gritty of the algorithm.

Your Coverfly Rank and data are completely private by default.

By default, your project submission data is only visible to you. It is completely private and cannot be seen by industry members unless you choose to make it discoverable to the industry, and it does not affect your performance in (nor is it used by) Coverfly partner competitions. The Coverfly Rank is a combination of your scores and rankings from all contest entries and evaluations that are currently partnered with Coverfly. We’d love to have it include 100% of festivals and are rapidly adding new ones, but we don’t currently have the bandwidth to manually add all results. With that said, you can add all your successes as a note next to any project on your Writer Dashboard.

If you choose to make your project discoverable, we may promote it to the industry and it may show up on The Red List.

Coverfly has staff dedicated full-time to promoting the top discoverable projects in our database to producers and managers. We also have dozens of producers, managers, and agents browsing public projects on our industry-facing dashboard.

Discoverable projects and their scores may also appear on The Red List, which is a public leaderboard of all public projects in the Coverfly database. Only vetted Industry members may download your project or contact you about your work.

This is completely free for the writer, and it is not how Coverfly makes money. We think if we can turn competition successes into career success, writers will want to enter competitions through Coverfly and no other platform.

Your Writer Dashboard

You can use the Writer Dashboard to sync all of your entries and placements into one place and build out your Coverfly Rank. Since many programs are already using Coverfly as a management platform, all of those individual placements are instantaneously added to your projects page and sometimes affect Coverfly Rank. It is completely up to you if you want to make your project discoverable and ranked, and all future entries to contests and festivals partnered with Coverfly will be added to your dashboard unless you delete your account.

Cost and Fees

Coverfly is free to use for writers.

We charge programs a fee for using our platform. We also have features that make judging fair and easy – like normalization of scores to help balance “tough” or “easy” judges. As a hosting platform, Coverfly is free for unlimited scripts versus Inktip or Black List. One way Coverfly makes money is by charging writers a small fee to update a contest submission draft mid-contest – this is a totally optional feature that allows writers to send in an updated draft to the judges instead of completely resubmitting. The goal is to get programs the best drafts, to prevent writers from having to pay full cost for a resubmission, and to allow Coverfly to keep hosting and tracking free.

Say Hello!

Coverfly is a writer-first platform, and we are committed to introducing new features and improving existing ones. If you have ideas or feedback that would make your Coverfly experience better, or just want to say hello, don’t hesitate to reach out to support@coverfly.com or via our support channel.

Happy writing!