Online Panel: Crafting Your Pilot Script
Do you want to learn how to get your TV pilot noticed? Your pilot scripts are your calling cards: they can get you into a program, get you an agent, get you a meeting, and hopefully get you a job!
Learn from industry pros as they describe what they look for when they read a pilot. Find out what stands out to them and what they think early-career writers need to pay more attention to.
Our panel will feature literary agent Anna Archer (Lucas Talent), Karen Bracken, Director of Development & Production at Lark Productions, showrunner Michael Konyves (Wild Cards), and Lea Marin, Director of Development Drama at CBC. It will be moderated by 2023 Scripted Series Lab alumna Kay Shioma Metchie.
Details
Thursday, July 24, 2025
5:30pm PT
On Zoom
Free Event
Participants
Anna Archer – Panelist
Anna Archer is a literary agent at Lucas Talent. She has been working on behalf of writers, directors and picture editors who work in film and television for 20 years, representing her clients and their projects in the major entertainment industry centers in Canada and in Los Angeles. Her roster is a creative mix of established writers, story editors, picture editors and directors peppered with interesting and talented emerging writers. She is fortunate to work with some of the top creative people in Canada, working across all genres including live action drama, animation and documentary/lifestyle. Prior to moving to Vancouver, Anna worked in the publishing industry in London, England for approximately 10 years..
Karen Bracken – Panelist
Karen Bracken, Director, Development and Production at Lark Productions, is a senior producer and development executive with over a decade of television and content creation experience in both Canada and Ireland. Joining Lark Productions in 2016, she works across the company’s scripted and unscripted development slate, helping take them from pitch to screen. Before moving to Canada, Karen worked with independent production companies in Ireland on document and factual series for local broadcasters RTÉ and TG4.
Michael Konyves – Panelist
Michael Konyves is the creator/showrunner/executive producer of the series Wild Cards currently in production on Seasons 3 and 4 for CBC and the CW. He was the creator/showrunner of the Montreal-set Netflix/CityTV crime series Bad Blood starring Kim Coates, Anthony Lapaglia, and Paul Sorvino, for which he won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Writing in a Drama Series. He also wrote the feature film Barney’s Version starring Paul Giamatti, Rosamund Pike, and Dustin Hoffman, which earned him the WGC award for Best Screenplay and the film also garnered various awards at international film festivals including a Golden Globe award for Best Actor. He also wrote the feature film The Last Knights starring Clive Owen and Morgan Freeman and was a Supervising Producer on Law & Order: Organized Crime for NBC/Universal. He has developed series for CBC, Bell Media, Corus, Rogers, Showtime, Hulu, CBS, FOX, Sony, and Netflix among others.
Lea Marin – Panelist
Lea Marin is the Director of Development, Drama, for the CBC, and is responsible for driving and overseeing the quality and diversity of the drama development slate including recent productions, Saint-Pierre, Wild Cards and Allegiance. A graduate of the Canadian Film Centre’s Producers’ Lab, prior to joining the CBC, Lea was a Senior Producer with the National Film Board of Canada where she developed and produced several documentaries and interactive projects. Some of her credits include Ever Deadly co-created by Tanya Tagaq & Chelsea McMullan, and Charles Officer’s Unarmed Verses.
Kay Shioma Metchie – Moderator
Kay Shioma Metchie is a writer, director, and actor born and raised in Vancouver, Canada. Raised in the film industry from an early age, her love of storytelling started from watching her father work on TV shows and Sci-Fi TV movies. She started in acting, training in theatre performance, before moving into Film and TV. She’s worked in the Vancouver Film Industry for 10 years, starting as a Script Supervisor on MOWs and TV Series before becoming a Supervising Producer and eventually moving into writing. She’s had the pleasure of working on multiple Canadian TV series, including Sight Unseen, Wild Cards, and Yaga. Her short film, Weeds Are Flowers, Too, was part of the 2022 Crazy8s Film Festival, and has played across North America in Whistler, New York, and Texas, just to name a few. She’s also in post for her Canadian Arts Grant funded short film, Split Ends.
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