Start with a free first look.
Send the script before you buy anything. Within three business days a reader sends back half a page: the logline as we read it, what the script is in one line, and one paragraph on what is working. No score and no verdict. If The Read is the right next step, the note says so. If it is a different package, or none yet, the note says that instead.
One script per person. Feature, pilot or short. PDF only. A person reads your script and writes every note. The file stays inside Goldsmith Production Services, is never used to train anything, and is deleted 90 days after delivery unless you ask us to keep it. We use your email to send the first look and nothing else unless you ask.
The road from script to fundable
Most filmmakers don't need everything at once. Development is a ladder. You climb only as far as your project needs, and every rung credits toward the next one.
STEP 1
The Read. Find out what you have.
Send us your script. You get one-sheet coverage back in five business days: a logline you can say out loud without apologizing, a synopsis, the bones of the script (what we see in it and what we love about it), and the production red flags: continuity problems, structural issues, and anything in these pages that will hurt you on the day. The cheapest way to find out what you actually have.
The Read carries a plain guarantee. If the one-sheet tells you nothing you can use, tell us within 30 days of delivery and we refund it the same week. One refund per script.
STEP 2
Blueprint. Understand and price it.
Everything in The Read, plus a full script breakdown with every scene, character, prop and location organized, a blank budget with every line item that will cost you money, and an estimated budget at union and standard rates. This is the spine. It's the moment your movie stops being a document and starts being a plan. Back in ten business days.
STEP 3
Workbook. For the film you're actually going to make.
Everything in Blueprint, plus character bios, location bios and prop bios built for production use, and the director's working material: what's inside the script and how to go about it. Back in fifteen business days.
STEP 4
Production. Take it to set.
Everything in Workbook, plus a treatment and a shot list with basic coverage for every scene, the thing your schedule and your setups are actually built on. Schedule and budget that you can build from. Back in twenty business days, dated at kickoff.
This is the financing-ready package.
Every tier credits into the next. You are always paying the difference, never paying twice. Credit is good for 90 days from delivery.
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If you do want notes
We don't tell you whether your movie is good. No pass, no consider, no recommend. That's a taste business, and we're a service business. But if you want reactions, Roundtable Coverage gives you three readers, three sets of coverage, plus a development recommendation drawn from all three, so you see what's actually landing and what only landed for one person.
The premium add-on: the Director's Prep Book
Every scene of your movie, laid out so you can think about it before you're standing on the day with 40 people waiting. Intention for each character in each scene. What the scene is trying to accomplish. The most important thing in it. The questions a director should have answered before the truck arrives, with the space to answer them in your own hand. This is the document we built for our own feature, and it is the difference between showing up with a shot list and showing up with a movie in your head. Added to a Workbook or Production package.
Services & pricing
Priced by page count. A short film shouldn't pay feature prices.
The Read
$29
$49
$79
$109
Blueprint
$195
$295
$450
$595
Workbook
$395
$595
$900
$1,195
Production
$695
$1,095
$1,650
$2,150
Package
Micro Short (under 20 pp)
Short (20-60 pp)
Feature (60-150 pp)
Epic Feature (over 150 pp)
Director's Prep Book: +$450, added to a Workbook or Production package.
Roundtable Coverage: $249 for a feature, scaled for shorts.
Development sessions: $100/hour, block of three for $270.
Turnaround: The Read in 5 business days, Blueprint in 10, Workbook in 15, Production in 20, dated at kickoff.
48-hour rush on The Read: +$29 for a short or micro short, +$49 for a feature or epic feature.
The clock starts when the script and payment land, counted in business days, Austin time. If a script needs longer, we say so before the clock starts, and you can walk away at no charge. TV pilots are priced by page count like everything else here.
Courses & Resources
for Film Makers
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How to Get On a Film Set
Free course. What a first day asks of you, how a set runs, and how to get asked back.
How to Write Your First Screenplay
$9.99 course. Take an idea to a finished script, one step at a time, with a workbook you keep.
How to Prep Your First Film
$9.99 course. The director's prep, from the first read to the night before day one, so you walk onto set ready.
Where to Send Your Film
Free guide. Forty-one pages on how festival tiers work, what a fee waiver is worth, and a dated calendar through June 2027.
Annual Festival Report, Gold Edition
$9.99. All 109 festivals, with each premiere rule quoted word for word, the full deadline calendar and a 57-box submission checklist.
All eight courses
$29.99, one payment. Every paid GPS short course: write it, pitch it, cast it, paper it, prep it, schedule it, shoot it, produce it.
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