Please select one of the consultants below for full biographical information:

Alex Ross (Founder of Writemovies.com)

Educated at the universities of Heidelberg, Cambridge and the ESCP/EAP business school in Paris. Alex Ross is fluent in four languages.He attended the London International Film School for two terms, became student president then dropped out in order to help run a chain of art house cinemas in the UK. He started his filmmaking career by workingfor Ismail Merchant on "Maurice" (with Hugh Grant). Alex moved to Los Angeles in 2001. After a year in the M.G.M story department, he worked as a story analyst for Sally Field, Dick Clark and others. Subsequently he became an agent at the Gray/Goodman agency which represented Quentin Tarantino, Christopher De Vore (Elephant Man) & Mardik Martin (Raging Bull). He subsequently founded Fortis Entertainment, a management company, and discovered Andrew Niccol who wrote and produced "The Truman Show" and directed "Gattaca", "Simone", "Lord of War" etc. Sales of screenplays & books by writers discovered by the company having reached $8 Million, Alex sold Fortis Entertainment to a well known actress in 1998 and spent the rest of that year teaching at various universities, film schools and colleges in the UK. His interest in fostering and developing new writing talent led to him being asked to become a consultant to the National Academy of Writing of Great Britain, (headed by Lord Bragg)in 2000. That same year he founded www.WriteMovies.com which has become an important entry point to the industry for new talent not just in the US but UK, France and Germany. In 2004 his company started off an internship program for British students to come and spend eight weeks working in the industry in Los Angeles. In addition to having been interviewed on prime time network T.V. by Dateline N.B.C, his career has been covered by: The Hollywood Reporter, Daily Variety, The Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker, Reuters, Newsday, The London Times, Daily Mail and others. Alex became a member of the British Academy (Bafta) in 2004. In 2006 he produced the romantic comedy "The List" starring Wayne Brady, Sydney Tamia Poitier, Brad Dourif, Illeana Douglas, Tatyana Ali, Flex Alexander, Malcolm Jamal-Warner, Concetta Tomei, Erica Gimpel and Matthew Glave. His company rossWWmedia, Corp. has several projects in development and is due to shoot "Smoked" in Los Angeles in September of 2007. This is to be followed by an adaptation of the best selling German novel "Das Soldatenkind" ("Soldierboy"- the story of the youngest soldier in the second World War, he was 8 years old) in early 2008. Alex is represented by TalentScout Management of Beverly Hills

Edward S. Feldman

• K-19 The Widowmaker (2002), Producer
• 102 Dalmatians (2000), Producer
• Truman Show, The (1998), Producer
• 101 Dalmatians (1996), Executive Producer
• Jungle Book, The (1994), Producer ... aka Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book (1994)
• My Father the Hero (1994), Executive Producer... aka My father, ce héros (1994) (France)
• Forever Young (1992), Executive Producer
• Honey, I Blew Up the Kid (1992), Producer
• Doctor, The (1991), Executive Producer
• Green Card (1990), Executive Producer
• Wired (1989), Producer
• Near Dark (1987), Executive Producer
• Golden Child, The (1986), Producer
• Hamburger... The Motion Picture (1986), Executive Producer ... aka Hamburger U. (1986)
• Hitcher, The (1986), Executive Producer
• Explorers (1985), Producer
• Witness (1985), Producer
• Hot Dog... The Movie (1984), Producer

Tom Craig

1980-1986: Warner Brothers - Story Analyst/Story Editor films include: Gremlins, Accidental Tourist 1986-1988: United Artists - Vice President of Production films include: Rainman, Prince of Tides, Child's Play 1988-1998: Universal Pictures - Senior Vice President of Production films include: White Palace, Career Opportunities, Bird On a Wire, King of the Hill, King Ralph, Dragon Heart, Heart and Souls,Beethoven, Leaving Normal, Shakespeare in Love 1998-present: Topa Films, Independent Producer

Peter F. Saphier

Independent producer. In development: CHIPPENDALES, Disney/Barry Sonnenfeld; CREATION, Kenneth Branagh; AMATEUR NIGHT AT THE APOLLO, Debbie Allen/Dreamworks. 1998-1999: Prelude Pictures - President Produced LOST IN SPACE with New Line Cinema and BLACKDOG with Universal Pictures. 1987-1998: Paramount Pictures - President of Tricor Entertainment 1983-87: Taft Entertainment - Senior Vice President in charge of Motion Picture & Television Acquired RUNNING MAN (Arnold Schwarzenegger), initiated development of THE ABYSS (James Cameron). 1981-83: Martin Bregman Prods. - President. Co-produced SCARFACE, executive produced EDDIE MACON'S RUN, produced THE FOUR SEASONS (CBS-TV). 1972-81: Universal Pictures, Universal Television - Vice-President Supervised over 150 projects, including: JAWS (found and acquired novel for studio), THE DEER HUNTER, RESURRECTION, MARCUS WELBY M.D., BARETTA & THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN. Responsible for talent deals with: Al Pacino, Sylvester Stallone, Michelle Pfeiffer, Alan Alda and Clint Eastwood. 1970-72: Universal Pictures - Production Executive. Clint Eastwood Films including PLAY MISTY FOR ME and HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER.

J Todd Harris

Was raised in and around New York. He graduated from Stanford in 1981. He managed a regional repertory theatre company called TheatreWorks in Palo Alto from 1981-1984, before attending Stanford Business School, where he earned his MBA in 1986. He got his feet wet as production executive for the original Showtime movie Heads, starring Jon Cryer, Jennifer Tilly, and Ed Asner. After producing his first film, Denise Calls Up, in 1994, he formed Davis Entertainment Classics, of which his is president. After producing six more films (including Sundance entries Lewis & Clark & George and Tim Hutton's directing debut Digging To China), he expanded his work to include partnering with actor Tim Daly in Daly-Harris Productions, which produced the 1998 Showtime Original Movie Execution of Justice, starring Tim Daly. He also produced Rites of Passage and Dudley Do-Right in 1998 for Universal Pictures. He lives with his wife lyricist Amy Powers and son Jasper Lee, born October 1998.

• Heaven's Pond (2003) (producer)
• Latter Days (2003) (executive producer)
• Happy Hour (2002/I) (producer)
• Burial Society, The (2002) (executive producer)
• 29 Palms (2002/I) (producer)
• Liberty, Maine (2001) (executive producer)
• Jeepers Creepers (2001) (co-producer) ... aka JEEpERs CrEEpers (2001) (USA: video box title)
• Tick Tock (2000) (producer)
• Sordid Lives (2000) (producer)
• Partners in Crime (2000) (producer)
• Little Richard (2000) (TV) (executive producer)
• Urbania (2000) (producer)
• Dinner at Fred's (1999) (executive producer)
• Rites of Passage (1999) (producer)
• Seven Girlfriends (1999) (producer)
• Dudley Do-Right (1999) (producer)
• Digging to China (1998) (producer)
• Bad Manners (1997) (producer)
• Lewis & Clark & George (1997) (producer)
• Cadillac Ranch (1997) (producer)
• Denise Calls Up (1995) (producer)

Dr. Armando Aranda

Born in México City, he was actively involved in the movement of independent film-makers that used the super 8mm home-movie format as a vehicle to challenge the boredom of the official Mexican film industry during the 1970s. In 1975 he entered the newly established National Film School of México (Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica), where he met the great surrealist master Luis Buñuel and several important film-makers such as Roman Polanski, John Huston, Frank Capra and Sergio Leone. His short films, shot at the film school, revealed a raw, minimalist aesthetic, nurtured by his closeness to Buñuel's cinema and the theatre and writings of Samuel Beckett. Never intending to become a commercial film-maker, he dabbled as scriptwriter for the Mexican Public Broadcasting Service, while pursuing both his training as a physician and the writing of poetry. In the early 1980s went to the University of Cambridge in England, in order to read for a Ph.D. in science. Yet, he became an active member of the London Screen-Writers Workshop and ghost-wrote specific sequences for TV movies and series. Through friends in both Cambridge and London, became involved in cultural journalism, writing features and criticism on science, music, poetry and art. His first book of poetry was published in Cambridge in 1985 and from then on, his poems have appeared in literary magazines, anthologies and art publications in England, France, Germany, Switzerland, USA and México. While pursuing his scientific career in France, he also joined the College Internationale de Philosophie where he met some of the founding figures of post-modern thought such as Jacques Derrida. In 1989, his novella-monologue ‘At the Edge of the Ocean' was read in México City by Mr. Anthony Quinn. In late autumn of 1989, his "plaquette" of poems ‘Seven and one for Sam' was sent to the already ailing Samuel Beckett, by Beckett's publisher Jerome Lindon, head of Les Editions de Minuit. Just a few weeks before dying Mr. Beckett wrote to Mr. Aranda acknowledging their aesthetic and philosophical fellowship. Since then, Mr. Aranda has been professionally involved in scientific and philosophical endeavours, but he is also advising major publishing houses and culture and arts foundations.

Lawrence Gray

In the 1980s and 1990s, Lawrence contributed episodes to several UK TV series, won the PAWS Award for Drama, sold a twelve part sci-fi TV series to Limehouse Studios and a six part Comedy Drama Series to the BBC. He moved to Hong Kong where he wrote newspaper and magazine articles, published short stories, and wrote scripts for Indian and Chinese movies. He won the 2006 Hong Kong Film Finance Award for best Hong Kong Film Project, and wrote Lifeline, a thirteen part TV drama series produced by Mediacorp in Singapore (2007). He was chairman and a founder of The London Screenwriters' Workshop, which for ten years was Europe's largest Screenwriter organisation. He founded and is Chairman of the Hong Kong Writers Circle and is Creative Director and a partner in Idol Films Ltd., a Hong Kong film production company with offices in Hong Kong and Mumbai. He has taught screenwriting at The University of London, and sundry other colleges around London. He has also taught screenwriting in Singapore and Hong Kong.
www.idolfilms.com

Stephan Gray

Founder and principal of Gray Fox Films, (2003-present); Former co-partner of GRAY/GOODMAN, INC., one of the fastest-growing talent and literary agencies (1985-2001).
Gray/Goodman’s clients have included:
Academy Award Winner QUENTIN TARANTINO, screenwriter/ director (Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Reservoir Dogs)
Academy Award Nominees CHRISTOPHER DEVORE, screenwriter (Hamlet, The Elephant Man)
GENEVIEVE BUJOLD, actress (Coma, Anne of the Thousand Days, Dead Ringers).
MARDIK MARTIN, screenwriter (Raging Bull, New York, New York)
DON CARMODY, producer (Chicago, Gothika ,The Whole Nine Yards)
GORDON WEBB, producer (Kindergarten Cop, Dave, Twins)
DENNIS JONES, producer (Honey I Blew Up the Kids, Pacific Heights)
DEREK KAVANAUGH, producer (Dances with Wolves)
JOHN SCHOFIELD, producer (Naked Gun 27, The Smell of Fear)
GRAY FOX FILMS has slated its initial project “Sunset Plaza” a dark comedy spoofing L.A. and the entertainment industry. It is expected to be shot in Los Angeles in September, 2005. Other projects in development: ”The Apprentice” and “Slipknot” written by filmmakers Cary Solomon and Chuck Konzelman; “Family Maintenance” by J.D. Stark; “Luke’s Redemption” by Francisco Bello; “Earth” by Miro; “When Stars Collide”, a romantic comedy by Joseph Sigalas.
Among Mr. Gray’s accomplishments as a literary agent, he oversaw negotiations with Universal executives Josh Donen and Jeff Korchekfor the screen rights to the novel, The Return of Philo T. McGiffin, by best-selling novelist David Poyer. Universal Studios paid $200,000 against $500,000 acquiring the project for Badham/Cohen.

Julia Verdin

British Producer JULIA VERDIN has established herself as one of Hollywood’s leading independent Producers. Julia produced the critically acclaimed 2004 Newmarket release STANDER, a British/Canadian/South African co-production starring Tom Jane, Deborah Unger, Dexter Fletcher and David O’Hara directed by Bronwen Hughes (‘Forces of Nature’). Julia is a Co-Executive Producer on MERCHANT OF VENICE, directed by Michael Radford, starring Al Pacino, Jeremy Irons and Joseph Fiennes witch was released to great critical acclaim by Sony Classics December 2004, and Co-Producer on RIDING THE BULLET based on a Steven King story directed By Mick Garris starring David Arquette, Jonathan Jackson, Erica Christensen and Barbara Hershey, released theatrically autumn 2004 Other projects in development include LOLA MONTEZ, a wonderful period piece based on the true story of Lola Montez a renowned 19th century courtesan/dancer who led a very flamboyant life, involving herself with many of the top artistic figures of the era culminating with her relationship with King Ludvig of Bavaria and through her political influence on the king creating civil war there. SUMMERHILL to be directed by top British director Gilles McKinnon based on the true story of the British school, Summerhill that the Government tried to close down but were circumvented by the pupils who took them to court and won. FLESH AND SOULS, a horror thriller to be directed by Morgan J Freeman. Julia is also the director of British company Seven Arts Films and is actively developing several projects for the company including NEUROMANCER based on the William Gibson bestseller to be directed by Joseph Kahn, WAVELENGTH to be directed by Dennis Dugan a fish out of water comedy to be shot in Ireland. WHITE LILY to be directed by Greg Widen to shoot in Russia, DOG SOLDIERS 2, a sequel to the successful DOG SOLDIERS movie. to be directed by Rob Green set to shoot in Budapest March 2006. LOST LAGOON, an action adventure film to be directed by British director Tony Hickox. Julia started her producing career as head of production for the U.K. Company WASA Films. During her four years at WASA, Julia was involved in setting up THE FOURTH PROTOCOL, based on Frederick Forsythe best seller, starring Michael Caine, Pierce Brosnan and Joanna Cassidy. Julia then went on to produce SPYTRAP, a comedy directed by Arthur Sherman and released in the U.S. by Hemdale. Following this, she produced THE OPEN WINDOW, directed by Rupert Wainwright for Chanticleer, which premiered on Showtime. Before leaving WASA, Julia also developed two projects, A WITCH IN NEW YORK and JUNK JOHNSON, which were picked up by Orion and Pathe/MGM. In addition, Julia produced a short film for Philips Interactive Media of America and produced and hosted the international entertainment TV show HOLLYWOOD UPDATE. She has also produced segments and acted as one of the lead presenters for the British entertainment series INVITATIONS. Prior to her producing career Julia started in the film business as an actress and appeared in several British films and popular British TV series.
Additional credits:

• I Witness
• Green Mail
• The Shipment
• The Contaminated Man
• STYX
• In Pursuit
• Ballard of the Nightingale
• Lone Hero
• Black Point
• Slipstream
• Infinite Darkness
• Past Perfect
• The Set Up
• Temptation
• Matters of Trust
• Detour
• Perfect Assassins

Mike Tarzian

Mike’s long list of credits ranges from directing feature films to producing television movies to creating commercials. Recently, he directed his first feature film, Screech of the Decapitated, which is will be released in January 2005 and served as the line producer for the independent Officer Down. He is now working on writing and producing a new program for the How To Channel/Do-It-Yourself Network called Furniture Lab. As a veteran Line Producer, Mr. Tarzian has worked on films such as Groom Lake (directed and produced by William Shatner), Time of Fear (directed by Alan Swyer), Shoot or Be Shot (produced by Ralph Winter and directed by Randy Argue), Tap Water (directed by Oliver Darrow), The Santa Trap (produced by Steve Austin, Jonathan Bogner, and Steve Janokowski) and The Perfect Wife (produced by Pierre David and Noel Zanistch). Michael has worked on documentaries such as The Harbor View House (written and produced by Markus Whittman) as well as on short films like the award winning Opie Gone Mad (written and directed by Andy Lee Johnson and produced by Ralph Winter) and Gimme the Finger (written and directed by Jill Garson).

Cathy Tudor

Formerly a director of content editing for DVR, Inc., Cathy Tudor is the founder and managing editor of One Woman's Writing Retreat. Her site was voted one of the top 101 Web sites for writers by Writer's Digest Magazine in 1999. Amongst others, she has interviewed bestselling authors Noah Lukeman, Rahna Reiko Rizzuto, and M. J. Rose. Cathy's site began as a personal sanctuary, using her skills to teach other writers how to utilize the Web. The site soon evolved into an online community where writers, agents, editors, filmmakers, and publishers could network, discuss craft, make announcements, and inspire other artists at every level of their development in a cozy and nurturing environment.

Peter Schaden

Geboren 1968 in Wien. Handelsakademie, Matura 1987. Journalistische Tätigkeit. Seit 1990 Kulturveranstalter, unter anderem Organisation von Lesungen in Wien, Berlin und München. Mitarbeit bei Kulturinitiativen und Kulturzeitschriften. Seit 1992 Herausgeber der Kulturzeitschrift FREIE ZEIT ART. Seit 1992 Organisator des Wiener Werkstattpreises für Literatur.

Hélène Monsché

Après des études littéraires puis de droit, Hélène Monsché a travaillé en tant que juriste dans le milieu du droit du cinéma, notamment dans le domaine des relations commerciales entre les studios hollywoodiens et l'Europe (achats de droits de remake, financement de productions et autres). Elle a également été formée comme analyste de scénarios pour les studios.