What We Do
We put our select list of clients at the forefront of the global film & television literary & IP marketplace.
With a discerning eye for material, robust intelligence gathering, and a comprehensive, results-oriented approach, we work on behalf of producers, studios, management firms, financiers, writers, directors, and other creatives to find, acquire, and develop compelling books, articles, podcasts and life rights from around the world that will delight and captivate audiences on screen.
We're Intellectual Property & Literary Scouts.
With writers, we develop original ideas into distinctly-voiced short fiction, novels, journalism and other stories that are thought-provoking, elevated, and commercial.
We work with partners in publishing and film & television to bring these works to readers and the screen.
We help the film/tv & publishing worlds tell the best versions of the stories audiences love.
Our scouting clients enjoy business & creative advisory services as part of our comprehensive offer, and we also work on limited, specific projects to help other creatives realize their vision.
Mac Hawkins
Founder / Principal
Mac is the founder of Pragmatic and leads its global IP scouting, advisory, and story development practices. He founded Pragmatic to help producers find great material to adapt and he started the company in 2010 after working in representation, editorial, development, and strategy across publishing and film & television at Paramount Pictures, WME, and HarperCollins in New York and Los Angeles.
He’s acquired, sold, and developed stories on the screen and the page for two decades. His American and international clients and partners have included major studios, Oscar and Emmy-winning producers, writers, directors, actors and other creatives. Originally from Louisiana (with a stop at Loyola University New Orleans for a Philosophy B.A. that he definitely uses every day...), Mac lives in New York and finds his way to Brussels often.
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Beau Dealy
As the Director of Literary Affairs, Beau manages research of the publishing market, providing dynamic insights into active submissions, media rights sales, and other book industry intelligence. He also scouts intellectual property from newspapers, newsletters, magazines, fiction journals, podcasts, and social media. He started his career at ICM Partners (now CAA), where he read books and screenplays for Oscar- and Emmy-winning filmmakers.
Beau graduated with honors from Georgetown University, earning degrees in government and Spanish (though he's not as quick with his Spanish as he used to be). He dreams of opening a bookstore-cinema-pizzeria in Ojai, California, a place he's visited once.
Director, Literary Affairs
Your Inside Voice
Pragmatic is a film & tv literary scouting advisory. From inside the publishing and media worlds, we help producers, studios, and other creatives find, acquire, and develop literary material and IP—books, articles, podcasts, and so much more—for the screen.
Along the way, we read. A lot. No, really, more than anyone should. But we love it because we love stories. And we love talking about them. Your Inside Voice is our way of saying thank you to all the storytellers whose tales delight us, whether we’re working on them for screen development or not.
In our (free!) monthly newsletter, we whisper to you about the things that are worth your time. You’ll hear from us about one newly published book that we've fallen in love with. We’ll also dig into our crates for another book or two that we've been fans of for a while and want to tell you about. And here and there, we'll bring to you articles, experiences, and cultural moments that we just can't keep to ourselves. Check it out here, and subscribe today!
Contact Us
413 West 14th Street, 2nd Floor
New York, New York 10014
T 1 212 380 3135