Los Angeles screenplay bank eyes Bollywood

Script P.I.M.P (Pipeline Into Motion Pictures), one of Los Angeles’s largest story bank for screenplays, is eyeing Bollywood.

Chadwick Clough, CEO and founder of Script P.I.M.P, said that he had been running a successful script writing competition in the US for the last nine years, which had grown into one of the largest story banks for screenplays in Los Angeles.

“Over 80 of the writers I have discovered have signed agents and managers, five scripts have been produced into Hollywood feature films and the winner of last year’s competition was recently signed by Warner Bros to write the movie He-Man,” he said.

Clough said he had always kept a keen eye towards the other powerhouse of filmmaking — Mumbai.

He said he had researched the Indian screen writing industry and had been contacted by over 100 Indian companies looking for scripts.

“So I knew there is a demand for a competition/company like ours and that screen writing in India is maturing to the quality and discipline of international films,” he said.

Script P.I.M.P has joined hands with ‘ScriptWalla’, a script writing workshop started by well-known script writer Kamlesh Pandey and Ben Rekhi from Hollywood.

Clough said Ben Rekhi was a close friend.

“We are still sorting out the workflow between Script P.I.M.P and ScriptWalla. I am excited about the possibilities of bringing what I have learnt and done into a new market,” he said. He said like ‘ScriptWalla’, Script P.I.M.P had similar beginnings as a writer’s workshop before it grew into a competition.

He said the advantage that ‘ScriptWalla’ students have is that this is the first workshop of its kind to take the time to develop and train writers in the professional craft of screenwriting.