LA-based screenplay bank eyes Bollywood

Mumbai: Close on the heels of the path breaking deal between Reliance Entertainment and Steven Speilberg`s Dreamworks, one of Hollywood`s biggest screenplay banks, Script PIMP (Pipeline into Motion Pictures), is making it`s foray into Bollywood.Chadwick Clough, CEO and founder of Script PIMP told reporters that he has been running a successful script writing company in the US for the last nine years which has 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 has always kept a keen eye towards the other powerhouse of filmmaking, Mumbai. He said he had researched the Indian screen writing industry and has been contacted by over 100 Indian companies looking for scripts. "So I knew there is a demand for an organization like ours and that screen writing in India is maturing to the quality and discipline of international films," he said. Script PIMP has joined hands with `ScriptWalla`, a script writing workshop started by well known script writer Kamlesh Pandey and Ben Rekhi from Hollywood. Clough said that there is a new unexplored market in India and he is excited about the new developments happening here in the field of scriptwriting. "I am excited about the possibilities of bringing what I have learnt and done into a new market. There is a renaissance happening in Hindi cinema similar to what happened in the US in the 60s and 70s," said Clough. He said that like `ScriptWalla`, Script PIMP had similar beginnings as a writer`s workshop before it grew into a competition. He added that 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. Bureau Report