For writers
Most studios return scripts unopened. Participating studios pay Gatehouse to receive them instead, so there’s finally a proper route in. It’s free. Your script stays locked with your own password, the studio sees only a summary you’ve approved, and nothing scores or rejects your work.
Salt Lines
Locked · nothing shared yet
What happens to your script
Your script is read once, by a computer, to draft a summary you then edit. After that it’s locked with your password. It’s never used to train anything.
A computer writes a summary for you to approve and checks it isn’t too close to something already in the works. It doesn’t score you, rank you or reject you. People at the studio decide what they want to read.
It’s locked with your password. Not us, not the studio — unless you unlock it for them.
The studio sees a summary you’ve edited and approved. Nothing else, without your yes.
A dated receipt for every script and draft. Your own record of what you sent, and when.
Straight answers
Because they’d return it unopened — most studios won’t accept scripts any other way. This is their official route in, linked from their own website.
The studio pays for the service. Sending a script costs you nothing — no fees, no subscriptions, no paying to be seen.
The studio’s terms, in plain language. They include a release: sending a script doesn’t create a deal, the studio doesn’t have to read or buy it, and studios often develop similar ideas on their own. Read it before you send — we keep a copy of exactly what you agreed to.
You can ask. A neutral reviewer checks the record and tells you plainly whether anyone at the studio read your summary or unlocked your script — and when their project began. Similar ideas happen independently all the time; this way you get the facts, not a guess.
Always. If a studio asks for your script, you decide whether to unlock it. Every yes is recorded on your side too.
How it works for you
Look for the official submissions link on a participating studio’s website.
Confirm who you are, read and sign the terms, upload your script and set its password. Your receipt arrives straight away.
Read the two-to-five-page summary we draft. Change it until it’s right — it’s what the studio sees.
If the studio asks for the script, you decide whether to unlock it.
Northlight has read your summary of Salt Lines and would like the script.
If you agree, enter your password to unlock it for Northlight only. You can say no; nothing changes on your side.
You decide
A studio sees only the summary you approved. If they want the script, they ask — and only your password can open it. Every yes is recorded on your side too.
Honest expectations
We’d rather tell you now than have you find out later.
Look for the official submissions link on a participating studio’s website.