...the gateway.....

Those of you that know me might be aware that for some time I have been working on a screenplay, based on one of my plays from the olden days.....anyway, having recently finished the second draft of the screenplay, a full and detailed treatment and a pretty tight one page outline, I decided it's time to start getting the work out there. An Aussie actor living/working in Hollywood has been sniffing around the story for some time and as recently as the first week of Sept, 2011 responded to my update about the progress of the work with an email stating that 'I still like this project, where are you at with financing...' the truth is that I'm at the bottom of a very large and ominous hill. An incline so great that the summit is barely glimpsed through dense cloud cover...
So, I told him as much but asked that if he provide a letter of intent then perhaps investors will throw in some coin. Naturally, as is his wont, a response has not been forthcoming. No money - no honey. So, I'm starting now to try and contact people, calibre artists/producers/directors that at the very least I can send the One Page Outline to....It's proving impossible to do so. Any contacts I have who are connected to the people that I am trying to contact simply won't assist in orchestrating even an online meeting. And I have to say I feel a bit let down by this. I'd like to imagine that should I ever be in a position to offer help, I would do so. And it's not like I haven't had work produced in the past. Even if much of it is in theatre and some tv, I do have some professional credits. Today I phoned an agency in LA as I'm trying to get to an Aussie director. I'd love him to at the very least, read the One Pager. I knew I wouldn't get past the receptionist but at least I could ask how I could go about trying to get the Outline into his hands. I was told that '...the gateway needs to be opened by a referral...' It sounds like I'm entering a portal into another universe and perhaps I am. But as of late like Dr Who I'm just tumbling through space, trying to find the way...