🏆 The Creative Floor Awards First Awards Deadline: 06 March
📅 Full dates and entry details are live on the site: https://thecreativefloor.com/awards
Best of luck to everyone entering, and thank you for supporting work that changes careers and lives through our Talent & Diversity Fund.
🗳️ New for 2026: Public Vote categories
Anyone can judge. Literally anyone.The real question is whether our award-winning jury knows better than the internet. We’re about to find out.
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📘 Agency Tales: The Book
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🎙️ This episode: From Adland to Netflix
❄️ This week, we head to Chicago (because London clearly isn’t cold enough) to sit down with TJ Cimfel, Chief Creative Officer at Avalere Health. Alongside the day job, TJ has made four feature films. The latest, Don’t Move, launched on Netflix in 2024 and went number one in 68 countries for two weeks. No big deal. So naturally, I asked him to break down exactly how you do that.
🛠️ This episode is a step-by-step guide to getting a feature film made:
• Getting an agent
• Selling a script
• Working with platforms like Netflix, Apple, and Disney
• What actually matters
• What’s mostly nonsense
• How much success comes from smart strategy versus sheer persistence
🚫 No highlight reel. No myth-making. Just the real process.
💡 If you’ve got a film idea sitting quietly in the back of your head and no clue where to start, this episode is for you. Even if you don’t, you’ll want one after this.
📓 Get your notebook out. This one’s unmissable.
⚠️ Light swearing. Parental advisory. You’ve been warned.
Not all awards are created equal.
🔗 Links mentioned in the episode:
Academy Nicholl Fellowships: https://www.oscars.org/nicholl
The Black List: https://blcklst.com/
TJ’s next film with Mila Kunis and Ridley Scott: https://deadline.com/2026/01/mila-kunis-nightwatching-scott-free-1236691811/
Message TJ: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tjcimfel/
