Script Coverage · From the Director's Chair
A professional's read on your screenplay.
A person reads it. Not just software.
A working director reads your draft — and tells you the truth.
You're too close to your own draft to see what's quietly killing it. Tools that score it in seconds and call it "compelling" are flattery on a timer. You need a working director who reads it cold and tells you the truth — what plays, and what dies.
One clear verdict. The biggest problem named first. The fixes that move the script forward.
A tiered read, free to start and as deep as you want. Every read's blind — no brief, no notes.
The quick pass Free
The Mara Test: a binary, zero-sycophancy gut-check on Claude Opus 4.8 — green or red, one line on what's working and one on the fatal flaw. No cost, no commitment.
Every script meets Mara. Few survive.
She takes no brief. She reads what's there, and reads it cold.
The Mara Test · Red or Green
The full read
I read it myself: the full written report — premise, structure, character, dialogue, market position, and the verdict: Recommend / Consider / Pass, biggest wound first, prioritised fixes.
The partnership
The full read, a call to go deep, and a follow-up read on your rewrite.
Scott Hartford-Davis
Four decades in the director's chair on Australian film and television — Police Rescue, Water Rats, All Saints, Big Sky, Home and Away, four TV features, 547 directing credits in all. I've been in the writers' rooms and on the floor when the pages got up on their feet, so I know what plays and what quietly dies. You get that judgment, straight.
Awards & Recognition
- New York FestivalsSilver Award
- Australian Directors Guild (ADG)Award Winner
- Australian Directors Guild (ADG)5 Nominations
The Diagnostic
"Is this working?" gut-check
Full Coverage
A draft going out the door
Development Partner
A script you're rewriting
Feature scripts and pilots. TV bibles and treatments by arrangement. Rush available.
Run the free Mara Test — green or red, in minutes.
Want the full picture? Pick a tier and send the script. You pay, the clock starts. No brief, no notes — I read it cold.
You get the report — biggest problem first, prioritised fixes. The Development tier adds the call.
Choose your read, add your script, and go. Every read is delivered by email — the free test and the Diagnostic arrive in your inbox automatically; Full Coverage and the Development Partnership come from me, personally.
Please select a read above.