What is NetStudio?

Love entertainment? Want to make it in screenwriting, or decide what gets made? Then go for it here at NetStudio where you can collaborate with our planet-wide community of writers and reviewers and create the script of your dreams.

How does it work? Let's start with the behind the scenes action.

For starters, NetStudio taps a showrunner - a seasoned pro in screenplay writing, development and/or production - to take a script from concept to final draft and give you writers and reviewers creative feedback along the way. Short and sweet are the magic words. Once produced, a script should play under five minutes.

Next, the showrunner chooses a script genre and opens the floor to pitches. That sets the clock ticking for the "Pitch Stage," which usually takes a few days to a couple of weeks. During this Stage, members can submit their Pitch ideas to NetStudio. While some of you are pitching ideas, others are licking their chops as they review and rate which pitches they like most.

Once the clock runs out, the Pitch Stage is closed and the winning pitch is selected. Then it's on to the next stage. And the next and the next, until all five stages are completed:

Pitch: A brief, high level concept for a script.
Plot: The sequence of events that take place in a script.
Character: The people in a script that bring the story to life.
Dialogue: The conversations between characters in the script.
Writer's Block: An obstacle that must be overcome to complete a script.

The winning submission in each Stage influences all Stages that follow. Once all five Stages are completed, a winning reviewer is determined and the Showrunner does his/her magic and puts together the final draft of the script.

This is where NetStudio shares the love. Winning writers for each Stage are awarded a prize, which may be cash, and get a writing credit. And the winning reviewer, the member who has most actively reviewed and rated submissions through all Stages of a script's development, also wins a prize and gets a credit!

Wait...it gets better. All completed scripts get a shot at being professionally produced by NetStudio and/or its producing partners and distributed on NetStudio's website!

So join NetStudio now and start submitting and rating! It's free. It's easy. And remember...that script of your dreams is only a few clicks away.

Manoj Narang, Founder
Manoj is the founder of NetStudio.TV and Chairman of its Board of Directors. An experienced entrepreneur, he has founded seven high-technology businesses over the past several years in addition to having held senior-level technology, research and trading positions for top Wall Street firms, including Goldman Sachs, CSFB and Citibank. Manoj received a B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science in 1991 from M.I.T., along with a Concentration in Creative Writing.

Bernadine Santistevan, CEO
Bernadine serves as Chief Executive Officer of NetStudio. She has extensive management, strategic and operational expertise garnered from executive roles in several early stage technology and media companies, as well as experience as a venture capitalist for GE Capital. Her consulting clients have included top venture capital firms, private equity companies, hedge funds and Fortune 500 companies, including GE Capital's Private Equity Group, Microsoft, Bear Stearns, Ritchie Capital and Wasserstein Perella.

Bernadine is also a seasoned script writer, film director and producer. She recently completed production of The Cry, a feature film based on a Medea-like ghost in the Latino community known as "La Llorona." Bernadine is currently writing the script for her next feature film, which she will also direct, as well as completing a children's fantasy book called The Day Belle Crashed Into Diego's Tree.

Bernadine has an MS in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford, an MA in International Studies from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA in Finance from The Wharton School of Business. She also has a certificate in filmmaking from New York University.

Chris Marcantel, President
Chris began his career in show business as an actor. Upon graduating from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, he quickly found work in the New York theater scene and in regional Theater. Chris originated roles in plays by Craig Lucas and in the Tony award-winning "Torch Song Trilogy" by Harvey Fierstein.This led to numerous television roles and the opportunity to co-star with such Hollywood luminaries as Mildred Dunnock, Warren Oates and E.G. Marshall. He played the son of Colleen Dewhurst in the CBS movie, "Baby Comes Home" and was a series regular in "Nurse," where he was Michael Learned's son, Chip. On "Kate and Allie", Chris guest-starred as the sleazy Howie. Due to its theme of sexual harassment in the workplace, the episode is archived at the Museum of Broadcasting.

In addition to his work in primetime television, Chris has had contract roles on the soaps, "Another World," "Guiding Light" and "Loving." When his character, Curtis Alden, was found face down in a sensory deprivation tank in an insane asylum on "Loving"...Chris decided it was time to make the switch to directing.

Chris studied directing at NYU. He then entered the director's program for ABC daytime television, where he directed the "The City." Now a member of the Directors Guild of America, he has also directed "The Guiding Light" and has produced or directed dozens of commercials and videos. Chris is also a producer of short films, including "Supertalk," starring Billy Crudup and Kathleen Chalfant.