... So little time

So, I have just over three weeks left in my summer break.

Thus far in summer I have seen one amazing horror film (It Comes At Night), one surprisingly decent horror film (47 Meters Down) and one rather atrocious horror film (Wish Upon).
It Comes At Night was a very quiet and very human movie. Very inspirational for the aspiring horror writer or auteur. 
47 Meters Down, while a bit derivative (any movie made about a shark after Jaws is going to be), was very intense for being a PG-13 movie. Perhaps I've seen too many horror films, perhaps I've written too many script... Or perhaps I'm just that savvy, but I totally called the twist ending.
And Wish Upon could have been some great Faustian horror (a la "The Monkey's Paw"), but instead it was the type of movie a 14-year-old shows at a sleepover. The third act was way too rushed and fell apart very quickly.

But none of that matters.

The good news is that tonight (despite taking time out to go see Wish Upon) has been very productive.

I re-vamped and revised my query letter for Personal Demons.

I re-wrote my synopsis for Personal Demons so that it outlines the key events of the story in (marginal) detail, but is not overwrought or exhaustive.

And I finished my research for the Greenlight My Movie VIP companies.

Now, in doing my research, I noticed that a lot of the companies had open submissions on their sites.

Renfield Productions had that. Apparently they are a company owned by Joe Dante. However, their website says that they are not currently accepting submissions and will resume once they are “caught up”. Joe Dante’s involvement (and their name being an obvious horror reference to Bram Stoker’s Dracula... even their logo being a fly supports this) would warranted an “APPROVED!” stamp from me. But given the note on their main page, I'm going to hold off on them.

I then submitted a query to Parallax Talent Management (who also have an open submissions policy).

Here's what they put on their queries page:

http://www.ptmla.com/queries/

I suppose the benefit to submitting to companies with an open submission policy via GMM and not just sending out a cold query is that they get to see you and experience your passion for the project (or in case an executive with the company thinks you’re attractive and might want to sleep with you and offer you a career boost as payment).