Authors

At the beginning of 2025, I took part in the Scriptdock Pitch Event with my co-author @Linus_Liyas and an idea for a comedy series. I was really impressed by the format. There were various inquiries about our material and discussions. To our delight, we finally found a production company as a partner who optioned our material. I can only recommend ScriptDock to anyone - whether you're a writer or a producer.

I have participated in the scriptdock pitch event several times now because it offers an excellent opportunity to present your material in a targeted manner and make it visible—both to industry experts and within the community. The platform allows projects to gain attention without exposing them to the risk of premature public presentation.


This has helped me establish valuable contacts in the industry.


I find it particularly helpful that the pitch doesn't just exist in a vacuum. The courses on scriptdock allow you to develop your material in a protected environment with the support of other authors.

I find the structure and the questions of the training very helpful and they accelerate me forward in my work. I have the feeling that I am being guided along the core theme, and that following the tasks and answering the questions actually unfold the material as if by magic.  

The fog disappears and a path of concrete writing and research lies before me. I'm glad to be a part of it. Thank you for the training. For me it's been a great support.

I wanted to thank you and the October training, I got into the Netflix writing program with the project I worked on with your feedback at the training! Thank you guys! I don't think I would have had the push to submit without your feedback!


For me it's great that this workshop offers a protected space and helps you not to stray from the path. There is always feedback and suggestions, and they are like a machete in the jungle to find the path of how you really want to tell the story. Also, I know that fear of having send something to potential partners and then sinking into self-doubt.(...) And what works against self-doubt is only continuous writing and training. So thank you for this workshop. I think it's a super good thing!


Es hat mir wirklich Spaß gemacht und ich würde es gerne wieder machen. Ich fand es toll zu sehen, wie andere Leute an die Loglines und Szenen herangegangen sind - das hat mich auf eine Menge Ideen gebracht. Mir gefiel auch das Feedback, das der Trainer und die anderen Teilnehmer gaben

A great opportunity to practice your writing in such a concentrated way with other people's material and to force yourself to dive into genres that are outside your comfort zone.
Even though I came out as an absolute "Dune" fan, I surprisingly found the work with the musical material of "Cyrano" and also the work with King "Richard", a Bio Pic, to be the most enlightening.

The basic training helped me a lot to develop my screenwriting skills and prepare me for the follow-up courses at scriptDock.

The training itself is always state-of-the-art with a selection of brand-new scripts to work on.

I particularly enjoyed working with the coaches Paula and Carmen, who worked in a professional atmosphere that was both trusting and sensitive, and an empathetic approach to the weak points in the scenes and loglines and always motivate us to improve.

The variety of texts was really good and the comments from others are helpful! It was a good atmosphere.

Despite having worked with screenplays throughout my career, only started writing continuously on my first screenplay last year. By the end of October, I had an unfinished treatment and synopsis and felt pretty alone.

The Screenwriting Marathon was a great opportunity to clearly formulate my goals right at the beginning: I was still doubtful about writing a first draft of my material. By stating the goal of writing 90 screenplay pages in front of other like-minded people, the weekly calls, the shared crises and achievements, and with the support of Paula and the other writers, I reached my goal. Playfully, without pressure with a lot of inspiration!

I attended the pitch event right after that with my project and am currently revising the version. And I was allowed to try out a scene on the Scriptdock tableread during the Berlinale to see if the comedy works in front of an audience. It does. Thanks for that. My story wants to become a movie.

The weekly submissions totally helped me, often I wrote only last minute, but got done! And then there was helpful and inspiring feedback.

I decided to take the training on the spur of the moment and am immensely grateful for it - for so much openness and willingness to listen to / read from each other, receive and give constructive feedback, grow and develop with each other. The goals and deadlines set in the group gave me the necessary motivation to actually meet them, as I felt a certain responsibility towards the others. The result was a steady, joyful progression of our very individual stories.

I found it well structured and I liked starting with the focus on the world. Despite having very little time, I learned a lot from this training.

I started out with texts and spent a lot of time re-writing them, which made them more mature. I didn't get around to reading that much. The feedback I received was nice and specific, I knew exactly what to work on.

It was important for my process to write every day, the characters started talking eventually. The structure was great! There are still questions left to answer, but there seems to be a path. 

Every writer functions differently: for me reading actual bibles and pilots was more helpful than reading books about screenwriting. In addition, it was great receiving feedback from a variety of talented people. Sometimes inspiration is ignited by friction :-)

What I like about the pitch format is the challenge to me as an author to present my own material really well - that spurs me on. And the people at Scriptdock do a great job of preparing and digitally converting the material, while supporting, motivating, and accompanying the authors - I have complete trust in you.

The pitch event was a very good opportunity to pitch ones film or series concepts in a protected setting, and to be visible to producers.

For me it resulted in a contact with a producer with whom I am still in exchange. 

Thank you for this great opportunity, which I will gladly take up again!

Dear Paula,

I just read your feedback. Thank you very much for that! I find your words very motivating - and very constructive and useful, as they reflect well what works and what does not yet! Since the story is very fresh and I tell it for the first time, I was also a little afraid of how the first reaction will be. After all, you're kind of the first viewer of this film! Now the fear is taken away from me, thank you also for it! (...)

I think I can see very well from your review what I can do concretely to make it more comprehensible for the viewer.

Thanks Paula for inventing the screenwriting marathon!

Paula, Wow! Am still at work but just flew over your notes and find them very, very great! Thank you so much! You'll get yours soon too and I'll reply here again in detail too! Thanks a lot! Such great feedback makes this platform alive!

For me, the weekly reading of scripts, the training to write loglines and the exercise to capture the tonality of a script by writing another scene in the same style was very useful. To focus on constantly working on the logline has worked for me, because a good logline is a prerequisite for selling a script on the market. The task of writing scenes in a certain tonality gave me the idea for a new screenplay. Thank you for that. 

Thank you so much for your review - I find it very helpful and motivating - just like the other times before! Really, you've got it down! In fact, after this month, I actually feel like I've rocked it down. But that's okay. I can definitely feel the story now and see everything in front of me - and of course, the first treatment version is more like a collection of material. But I'm proud of it. Because a month ago I knew nothing about it.


During the training in the Pirate package, I developed the series “Eva's Paradise”. At the pitch in Berlin in February, I was able to make some interesting contacts, including producer Tamara Kollmeder (Colourgraphie GmbH). We now have an option agreement and we are working together on the realization of the script. Without Scriptdock's well-structured program and Paula's great support, I would never have got this far. That's why I booked the Pirate package again.

The Pirate program, which lasted several months, had given me the structure on the one hand and a safe space on the other to develop a story in just a few months. The decisive factor for me personally was the fact that I continuously received appreciative feedback from Paula and was also able to establish close contact with another “pirate” with whom I was always in exchange. This feeling of community and continuous feedback really motivated me. 

The material I developed was accepted for the pitch wild@heart by the Bundesverband Regie, where I was able to further refine the core of the material in a workshop lasting several days. The next success was treatment funding by Kuratorium junger deutscher Film/Kinderfilm! 

If I get the feeling again that I have an idea for a material or simply want to stay in training, I would become a "pirate" again at any time. The idea for the material came to me during the first exercises in basic training! That's how it was for me.

After your feedback, Paula, I had a few days of "disorientation". But then I got the hang of my story and reworked it. "Frisian Ice", as the title now reads, is more absurd but much more stringent than the old version. I hope so. LOL! Therefore: Many, MANY thanks again for your very well-founded, constructive feedback!

I'm thinking about just booking the Freibeuter again for next semester and going the whole way again.

This whole flow is very helpful for goal-oriented writing.

Thanks to the pitch event in June, I was not only able to pitch my material at the live event in Munich, but also make contact with a production in Berlin through a reading request. The reading request was followed by phone calls and a personal conversation that has now led to a development contract. A great start to the new year!


Production Partners

I thought the pitch event was very successful all in all.

I like the concept that I can read several short pitches without having to give feedback directly to everyone. I can approach the authors I'm interested in and easily get into an exchange.

All of the projects that I requested were released to me very quickly, and the authors also always responded to queries quite quickly - I found that very pleasant. The same applies to the technical side: I understood everything well and found my way around the website very well.


With this in mind, I'm already looking forward to the pitch event in January.

I think the Scriptdock platform is important for us as producers, as it allows offers professionally prepared material that represents a wide variety of genres, perspectives and programs. You can get in touch with authors whose work is already convincing on a pitch basis at a low threshold and thus approach people in a more targeted way. Thus the often noncommittal first meetings lead directly to a concrete exchange about the ideas and, from my point of view, are also perceived as more productive in the further course.


From an authors perspective, I find the platform beneficial because the material is developed, mirrored and discussed together, which results in a selection process that also helps potential partners to make decisions. Any gaps in development can be closed before the material is made available, which also helps the first impression and review by producers and increases the chances of success.


The training of authors is a key point for me in developing professional concepts here that are tailored to the industry and are therefore more convincing at the formal level alone.