My Best Cover Letter Ever

Dear XXX,

First and foremost, you should know that film is my life. Twice, I have faced starvation and homelessness to make my career in Hollywood. While that career has been volatile, it has also been marked by unique and exemplary accomplishments. Mine is an optimism borne of hard lessons, and I’d love to put my relentless positive attitude and resilient focus to work for some good people. My origins are in the theater, and my creative focus is consistently on people rather than any one point of spectacle.

Financially, my market knowledge and research skills are as strong as they come. For the last seven years, I’ve raised private investment dollars for independent feature films. My most recent contractee, Unified Pictures, also afforded me the opportunity to run all company social media, as well as conduct extensive development duties from market research to scriptreading. When I left, it was to develop features for a consortium of Russian investors interested in American film. That work has kept me busy for the last six months, and now we have a mid-budget film with a very well-known action director moving through the financing process.

Meanwhile, I’ve been developing content of my own. Currently, I have a science-fiction script and a horror script both in front of acting and directing talent – as well as seeking financing in China and India. On a smaller scale, I’ve been organizing a microbudget independent fantasy with a social-media based audience called Sam Bailey. Based on the online support of our audience, Sam Bailey is currently in negotiations for a platform release with independent exhibitors – prior to the attachment of either star cast or financing.

My resourcefulness and my eye for marketable content that defies expectation are my greatest strengths, and I’m very excited about every opportunity to leverage those qualities in a way that challenges and inspires my film community to grow and thrive. My more selfish creative needs are being satisfied, and what I need most right now is the opportunity to show the rest of my community how flexible and open I am when it comes to empowering those around me.

My eye for both content and opportunity is affording me the chance to lead some very ambitious projects very early on in my career, and to balance the scales and support my growth I need to show the community how selfless I can be. Give me that opportunity, and I promise you service and collaboration that will elevate your company and your creative efforts to a new level.

Yours truly,
Tennyson E. Stead