Join the Heist: How to Pitch Fabricated Crime
Filmmakers, producers, and weirdos with a script: here's what to put in your first message so we can actually say yes.
Every week, someone tells us about a project they want to make. The best messages have one thing in common: they make it easy to picture the movie and the plan. Here's what we like to see in the Join the Heist form.
Tell us what you're trying to make
One or two sentences. Genre, tone, and the hook. If it fits on a poster tagline, it fits in a message.
A nun with a gun and a bad habit for justice.
That's our own example, and it's eleven words long. You can do it in more, but you shouldn't need many.
Give us a ballpark budget
We work on independent budgets. A rough range is more useful than a precise number, and "I don't know yet" is a perfectly good answer as long as you tell us. Knowing the scale lets us suggest the right way to help, if we can.
Say when you want to shoot
Even a season will do. Timelines tell us whether the project is a good fit for the crew, the cities, and the calendar we already have.
Mention where you are
We split our time between Denver, Los Angeles, and Wyoming, and we work with crews and collaborators nationwide and across the Caribbean. If your project is somewhere else, say where. It's not a dealbreaker.
What helps
- A script, treatment, or one-sheet, if you have one.
- A link to previous work. A short reel beats a long résumé.
- What you actually need from us: a producer, a crew, equipment, a technical solution, or just a second opinion.
What doesn't
- A pitch that's three paragraphs of backstory before the movie.
- "We'll figure out the budget later," with no range at all.
- Attachments we can't open.
Submitting a finished film
If your film is already made, submit it through FilmFreeway. The contact form is for projects in the works.
Tell us what you're trying to make. We read every message.