Submit to our first festival! The Industry Next focuses on inclusion in the entertainment industry. One grand prize winner in each category receive mentorship meetings with our lineup of industry names, and acquire the opportunity to speak at our fall 2020 entertainment summit in Los Angeles! We want to highlight YOU as a creative! It all culminates in our 2020 Ermantourage entertainment panel and mixer night on November 14, 2020 for a day of  panels, Q&A's, and talks. To be held at a private event space in Hollywood (or virtually, dependent on the pandemic at the time).

We are donating a portion of your registrations to both the Equal Justice Initiative and the Innocence Project in their endeavors to promote criminal justice reform.

Winner to be featured for a Q&A at a Ermantourage's fall 2020 entertainment summit.

Projects of finalists will be screened/read by leading names in the entertainment industry, including judges and mentorship meetings. Mentors to be announced.

Winner to have a featured interview in digital magazine Vents Magazine.

Recorded table read of your material with actors, and with special guest development executives in attendance. 

Mentors for grand prize winner:

1. Jen Chambers is the SVP of Development for TV and Digital Media at Legendary Entertainment, where she is tasked with finding, developing, and selling a wide range of hour and half-hour projects for broadcast, cable, and streaming. Prior to her job there, she was Vice President of TV at The Mark Gordon Company and previously worked at eOne Television (Hung, Rookie Blue, Rogue), Maverick TV where she oversaw development including the FX series The Riches, and the Fox Network where she worked on series such as House, Wonderfalls and The OC. Jen started her career in the TV Lit department at the Paradigm Agency in Beverly Hills.

2. Emagine Content, management company

3. TBA

Finalists' scripts to be judged by Trevor Wall of The Mission Entertainment!

Trevor Wall began his entertainment career as an awkwardly shy Squanto in a very problematic kindergarten Thanksgiving play. Being born and raised in Southern California not only afforded him the luxury of never experiencing a real winter, but also made the dream of working in Hollywood that much more tangible. As an only child raised by a cinephile single mom, he watched hundreds of hours of classic cinema that taught him everything he knows about the human condition (for better and for worse). Trevor went on to study filmmaking in high school for free and in college for several thousands of dollars that he will likely never pay off. After interning at various production companies (Overbrook Entertainment, Voltage Pictures), he started working at The Mission Entertainment as the assistant to Andrew Coles (Queen & Slim, Twenties). Trevor’s continued to fail upward at the company now as a Creative Producer — fighting for those underrepresented stories that deserve to be told on screens big and small. When Trevor’s not making his mom proud working in Hollywood, you can find him wandering a local art museum during the day and moonlighting as a masked vigilante at night.