Specialties: Film direction, screenwriting, copywriting, creative direction
Work History
Freelance Writer
Fandango
February 2014 - Present
Write a wide variety of movie-related content for the website, including photo galleries, quizzes, and interactive features.
Author
lynda.com
2013 - Present
Wrote and presented the online course Screenwriting Fundamentals. This course is designed to help writers, filmmakers, and artists flesh out their movie ideas into three-act stories that are both suspenseful and unpredictable.
Owner
Cassava Films
April 1997 - Present
Wrote and directed the feature films "Foreign Correspondents" (1999) and "Claustrophobia" (2003). Also produced "Claustrophobia".
"Foreign Correspondents" was the first film in history to employ crowd-funding, via the award winning website forcor.com.
"Claustrophobia" was distributed in the U.S. and Canada by Lionsgate Home Entertainment.
Also wrote and directed several short films, including "The Closest Thing to Time Travel" (2006), which was the Grand Prize Winner in an international competition sponsored by Getty Images.