TV author Katja Meier has revealed that, when she pitched her script thought to manufacturing firms as a part of a scheme for feminine writers aged 40+, she was requested to make her feminine protagonist 20 years youthful.
Meier advised The Guardian newspaper she pitched her thought to a number of manufacturing firms with the backing of the UK arm of the Writers Lab programme, however her preliminary enthusiasm turned to dismay:
“You’re pondering, ‘Oh my God, the script got here out of a programme for ladies over 40, and I’m sitting right here being advised the one technique to get it made is to make my lead girl 35? It was actually heartbreaking.”
Meier says that she tried to argue that her target market of girls aged over 50 would respect the story, however this fell on deaf ears.
“In a single pitch any individual advised me: ‘Yeah, we don’t actually consider that ladies over 50 are a legitimate viewers’,” she says with fun. “And I used to be identical to, ‘Are you f***ing kidding me?’”
As a substitute, Meier arrange her personal firm Zenka Movies and borrowed cash to fund the filming in March 2024 of her pilot of $hare – the story of a 59-year-old girl who inherits a British-Swiss mining firm.
The director advised The Guardian she hopes to lift cash to make the collection via launching the pilot on unbiased streaming service Olyn.
The newspaper experiences that ladies made up 23% of creators of authentic TV collection in 2023/24 (figures from the Centre for the Examine of Girls in Tv and Movie).
