The storytelling industry is global. Yet the systems through which stories are discovered, financed, developed, produced, and distributed remain fragmented. OSM exists to help solve that problem.
The challenge is rarely a lack of talent.
The challenge is a lack of infrastructure.
Together, they create a more structured pathway through which stories can move from concept to production — and ultimately reach audiences.
A year-round digital platform connecting stories with opportunity. Writers submit projects. Industry participants discover, evaluate, and engage — year-round, without waiting for an event.
Explore the MarketplaceThe annual global gathering of the OSM ecosystem. Three concentrated days bringing together storytellers, producers, investors, distributors, film commissioners, and thought leaders from around the world.
Explore the ForumThe Marketplace operates throughout the year. It is designed to help stories become visible to the people most capable of advancing them — without waiting for an annual event.
Writers create accounts and submit pitches, scripts, treatments, and supporting materials. Projects are profiled and made visible to industry participants on the platform.
Producers, directors, investors, distributors, and film commissioners browse curated projects, filter by genre, budget, territory, and stage, and identify opportunities aligned with their mandates.
When a project draws interest, industry participants can formally express it and request a structured meeting — creating a clear pathway from discovery to conversation.
Deal Rooms are not reserved for the annual event. When meaningful interest is established on the platform, structured deal conversations can begin at any time of year.
Who the Marketplace serves
Submit projects, build profiles, connect with industry decision-makers, and move stories beyond traditional submission pathways.
Discover curated projects, find collaborators, and initiate development conversations with creators whose work aligns with your slate.
Access structured storytelling opportunities with clear project profiles, budgets, rights information, and development status.
Identify compelling content earlier in its journey — before it reaches the open market — and establish relationships with creators and producers.
Promote territories, co-production opportunities, and incentive frameworks to an engaged global community of storytellers and producers.
Discover projects seeking a directing vision, connect with writers and producers, and explore material aligned with your creative direction.
The objective
Move exceptional stories beyond submission — and toward meaningful opportunity.
The OSM Global Story Forum is the flagship annual event of the OSM ecosystem — a curated virtual gathering bringing together the global storytelling community for dialogue, discovery, and deal facilitation.
Explore the future of storytelling — examining where the global story economy is heading and the forces shaping it.
Examine emerging opportunities and challenges — financing, distribution, technology, policy, and cultural access.
Foster international collaboration — connecting storytellers and industry leaders across geographies, languages, and traditions.
Showcase selected projects — giving curated stories a live platform before the widest possible audience of decision-makers.
Facilitate industry engagement — structured meetings, deal rooms, and conversations that convert interest into opportunity.
Support the advancement of promising stories — helping projects move toward development, production, and distribution.
Forum discussion pillars
"The Forum serves as the annual meeting point for the wider OSM community — the moment the year-round work of the Marketplace converges into live dialogue and shared purpose."OSM — Open Story Market
Who participates
OSM is not built for one type of participant. It is designed as a shared infrastructure — where every role in the storytelling ecosystem has a meaningful place and a structured pathway to opportunity.
Move stories beyond traditional submission pathways. Reach producers, investors, and distributors through a structured global platform.
Discover curated projects and collaborators aligned with your slate — surfaced through a structured marketplace rather than informal networks.
Access structured storytelling opportunities with clear project profiles, rights status, and production readiness — removing friction from creative IP investment.
Identify projects earlier in their development journey — before they reach the open market — and build relationships at the right stage.
Promote territories, co-production frameworks, and production incentives to an engaged global community of storytellers and producers.
Contribute insight, participate in Forum dialogue, and help shape the intellectual direction of a growing global storytelling community.
A writer develops a script, pitch, or treatment ready for the world.
The project is submitted to the OSM Story Marketplace and profiled for industry visibility.
Producers, investors, distributors, and commissioners discover the project through structured browsing and matching.
Stakeholders express interest and request structured meetings — creating a clear, traceable pathway from discovery to conversation.
Selected projects are showcased at the annual OSM Global Story Forum before the widest possible audience of decision-makers.
Deal Rooms open — structured conversations on rights, financing, co-production, and development that convert interest into agreement.
Stories that were discovered, developed, and financed move toward production — and ultimately reach audiences.
OSM is designed not simply as a place to submit projects.
It is an ecosystem that helps stories progress through meaningful stages of advancement — with infrastructure actively working at each stage to convert interest into opportunity.
A pitch is not the destination. A pitch is the beginning of a conversation. The real question is what happens after someone says: "I'm interested."
OSM is built to answer that question.
The future of storytelling will not be determined solely by creativity.
It will also be determined by the systems through which stories move.
The creators, investors, producers, distributors, institutions, and audiences who participate in those systems will help shape the stories that influence culture, society, and the world.
Right now, those systems are fragmented. Discovery is separated from development. Development is separated from financing. Financing is separated from distribution. The result is a global storytelling economy rich in talent but constrained by infrastructure.
OSM is being built to support a more connected, transparent, and globally accessible storytelling ecosystem — one in which exceptional stories have a structured pathway forward, regardless of where they originate.
This is not a festival. It is not a competition. It is infrastructure — built for the long-term advancement of global storytelling.
The OSM Pitch Room is a structured space where selected projects are presented to producers, directors, investors, distributors, broadcasters, streamers, and studio executives — on the platform year-round and at full scale during the annual event.
Active in the Marketplace
Feature Film · Drama
Seeking Producer · Africa
TV Series · Thriller
Seeking Broadcaster · Europe
Documentary · Environment
Seeking Investor · Global
Animation · Family
Seeking Studio Partner · Asia
Sample projects for illustration. Live projects visible to registered participants.
A three-day virtual global marketplace for writers, producers, investors, distributors, broadcasters, and creative leaders. Register your interest now and secure your seat.
Join the OSM platform as an early access participant — or express your interest in contributing to the OSM Global Story Forum as a speaker, panellist, or industry voice.
Contributor participation is curated. Most contributors are invited directly, though expressions of interest are welcomed for consideration.