Connecting exceptional stories with producers, investors, distributors, commissioners, and creative leaders through structured discovery, industry engagement, and deal facilitation.
Every year, thousands of exceptional stories are written, submitted, shortlisted — and praised. Yet very few become films.
Between discovery and production lies a neglected stage — the deal-making process. A screenplay can be discovered today and still be nowhere six months later. Not because it lacked quality. Because interest was never converted into opportunity.
Open Story Market is building the infrastructure that helps stories move from creators to audiences through discovery, collaboration, financing, production, and distribution. Not a festival. Not a competition. A marketplace.
A year-round marketplace where stories are profiled and discoverable by producers, investors, distributors, and collaborators across every market.
High-level conversations shaping the future of storytelling, creative economies, cultural influence, and the structures that help stories reach global audiences.
Selected projects presented before industry stakeholders — producers, investors, film commissioners, and distribution decision-makers.
Structured one-to-one and multi-party meetings designed to facilitate partnerships, option agreements, financing conversations, and co-production arrangements.
OSM is not another pitch competition. It is a structured progression — from discovery to deal — with a system actively working to convert interest into opportunity.
Stories are profiled, curated, and made discoverable to the right industry stakeholders.
Producers, investors, and distributors review projects before the event and request meetings.
The OSM system matches aligned stakeholders — writers, producers, investors — and schedules structured meetings.
Selected projects are presented live before industry decision-makers in the Story Showcase.
Business conversations — not pitches — where rights, financing, and partnerships are discussed.
Stories that were discovered move toward financing, development, and production.
A 3-day global virtual marketplace bringing together writers, filmmakers, producers, investors, distributors, film commissioners, and creative leaders from around the world.
Curated project showcases, profile browsing, and initial connections. Stakeholders explore the selected story portfolio and identify projects of interest.
Live pitches, panel conversations, and first meetings. The OSM Global Story Forum opens its sessions. Stakeholders begin structured conversations.
Deal Rooms open. Business conversations on rights, financing, co-production, and development. Where stories become opportunities — and opportunities become agreements.
The OSM Forum convenes industry leaders, cultural economists, creative thinkers, and decision-makers to examine how stories move — and what structures help them reach global audiences.
"Discovery is not enough. What happens after someone says 'I'm interested'?"OSM Founding Thesis — Open Story Market
Contributors & Participants
Global contributors and industry leaders currently being curated across Africa, Europe, North America, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. Participants include producers, film commissioners, creative economy specialists, distributors, investors, and cultural leaders.
The Deal Room is the most important room in the story market. It is not open to everyone. It is reserved for people with the ability to create real opportunities — producers, investors, distributors, streaming platforms, commissioners.
Every participant enters with a structured meeting schedule. Every conversation is oriented toward one outcome: moving the story forward.
Whether you are a writer with a story ready for the world, a producer seeking your next project, an investor looking for creative IP, or an industry leader shaping the future of storytelling — OSM is built for you.