Alex Ross
Fred T. Kuehnert
Tom Craig
Bill Froehlich
Lisa Alexander
C.T. Atherton
Peter F. Saphier
Dr. Dr. Aranda
Hélène Monsché
Peter Schaden Patrick Ewald Lawrence Gray Richard Stefanik

                        Who we are...

Alex Ross: founder of WriteMovies.com was educated at the universities of Heidelberg, Cambridge and a Grande Ecole in Paris. He is fluent in four languages and has a working knowledge of another three.  He spent ten years as a Literary Agent, then Manager in Los Angeles. He started off in the M.G.M story department, then worked as a story analyst for Sally Field and Dick Clark. 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". Sales of screenplays & books by writers discovered by the company having reached $8 Million, Alex sold Fortis Entertainment to Sandra Bullock in 1998. In 2000 he was asked to become a consultant to the National Academy of Writing of Great Britain, (headed by Lord Bragg). 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 was recently a panelist at the Las Vegas Screenwriting Conference and has also be invited to participate in the L.A. Screenwriting Expo and given lectures and seminars at Chapman College, UCLA and various colleges in Europe.
HONORARY BOARD MEMBERS:
Fred T. Kuehnert: (Head of Production):          Executive Producer in the development, production and distribution of the Academy Award winning film “The Buddy Holly Story” (Columbia Pictures), characterized by film critics Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel as "the best Rock n' Roll film ever made."         Prior to entering the entertainment business, was a principal with Charter Financial Group, a Houston, Texas-based real estate and venture capital firm with licensure as both a real estate and securities broker.         Served as President of its wholly owned entertainment/media subsidiary, Houston International TeleVideo, managing ventures in cable television, recorded music, home video distribution, as well as independent motion pictures.         Theatrical films produced independently while in Texas include “The Aurora Encounter” (New World Pictures), “The Lamp” (Skouras Pictures/Artisan), as well as the critically acclaimed documentary film "That's Black Entertainment" (PBS), which was awarded the CINE Golden Eagle. In addition, was responsible for the packaging of several films for the tax shelter market.         During 1992/1993, after relocating to Los Angeles and in association with the Motion Picture Corporation of America, produced the Civil War film “Grey Night” (aka The Killing Box) (MGM/Showtime Network/Turner Pictures), directed by George Hickenlooper.         During 1995/1996, secured private financing, independently produced six action genre films including “Red Steel”, “Hotwired”, “Blood Justice”, “Malibu Nights”, “Diamonds in the Rough” and “Running Hard”, directed by Serge Rodnunsky and distributed internationally by Orion Pictures.         During 1997/1998, arranged private financing and independently produced “Cold Night Into Dawn” and “Cypress Edge”, distributed internationally by Showcase Entertainment and domestically by MTI Home Video.         Produced “Beneath Loch Ness”, directed by noted special effects producer Chuck Comisky, which premiered at the American Film Market, 2001 and has been licensed in all major international territories, as well as in the U.S. by Miramax Films.         Recently arranged completion financing and served as a creative consultant for Kevin VanHook’s comic book adaptation to film,  “Frost: Portrait of a Vampire,” starring Gary Busey for Showcase Entertainment.         Projects in advanced stages of development include “Ton Up Boys”, which has been characterized as “Billy Elliot” on a motorcycle; “My Father’s Son”, a drama about father-son relationships (Kingman Films); “Free Fall”, a teen “Cuckoo’s Nest”; “Nature of the Beast”, a creature feature about the search for a mythical large cat (with Peter Elson’s Global Cinema Group and Chuck Comisky); “Deep South”, an urban horror/thriller set in the swamps of the Mississippi River that is to be directed by Talun Hsu; and “The Fallen Ones”, a story about the discovery of a prophetic giant with Kevin VanHook.         Has spoken on all aspects of independent film making at film festivals, universities, film schools; has been quoted in national print media. Included in Who’s Who in Entertainment and recognized by The Hollywood Reporter as a major independent film producer.         Former Advisory Director to the Texas Film Commission, the first President of the Motion Picture Council of Houston, and has served as a motion picture expert witness on numerous occasions.   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
Bill Froehlich: Bill Froehlich has been a successful filmmaker in Hollywood for over twenty years. His professional beginnings were as a Disc Jockey and a Repertory Theatre Actor/Director during his college years. After graduating summa cum laude/valedictorian from Ithaca College, his first job in Hollywood was in the mailroom at Universal Studios, which he left to Co-Produce the Feature Film, Olly, Olly Oxen Free, starring Miss Katharine Hepburn. This was followed by a two-year stint as a Production and Development Executive at MTM Enterprises under its legendary president, Grant Tinker. Following the MTM experience, he wrote and produced a Television Movie for CBS entitled If Things Were Different starring Suzanne Pleshette, Tony Roberts and Don Murray that was the highest rated MOW for CBS that season. Since then, he has written ten Television Movies including the final Hart To Hart movie entitled Til Death Do Us Hart with Robert Wagner and Stephanie Powers, which was filmed in Munich. He has produced, written and/or directed Motion Pictures with the involvement of such stars as Paul Newman, George Clooney, Kurt Russell, Anthony Hopkins, Burt Lancaster, Jack Lemmon, Peter Falk, and Ron Howard. His feature documentary on auto-racing entitled Circuit, is considered by magazines, Car and Driver and Motortrend, to be "the best movie on racing ever made." He made his Motion Picture Directorial Debut with the cult comedy classic and horror spoof Return To Horror High for New World Pictures, which after its successful theatrical run remains one of that studio’s best video sellers. His work in Television has also included Producing ten different Series and writing eight Series Pilots. He started the original Mike Hammer Series starring Stacy Keach, and did such hits as Scarecrow and Mrs. King, starring Kate Jackson and Bruce Boxleitner, and MacGyver, starring Richard Dean Anderson. Limited-run series included Leg Work, starring Margaret Colin and Academy Award Winner Frances McDormand; A Fine Romance, shot in Europe as the first international co-production; and Pointman, starring Jack Scalia. Most recently, he was Co-Executive Producer/Show Runner of Freddy’s Nightmares; Poltergeist, The Legacy; The Outer Limits; and The Sentinel. Currently, he is Writer/Creator/Executive Producer of ATL, a pilot for a new NBC series and he is set to Direct the Independent Feature Film Production of Premonition, a psychological thriller, based on his screenplay, for Baio/White Productions. Mr. Froehlich is a member of the DGA, WGA, SAG, IFPWest and The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
C.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 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 Tricor Entertainment  1983-87 Taft Entertainment: Sr. VP 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.
Dr. 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.
Patrick Ewald: is Senior Vice-President, Development and Production of sister companies Jon Voight Entertainment and Crystal Sky, LLC which has a 12 picture, 3 year co-financing/co-production output deal with Paramount Pictures. Prior to that, Mr. Ewald was head of development in the entertainment company, Pfilmco, which produced such films as THICK AS THIEVES starring Alec Baldwin, Delroy Lindo, and Rebecca DeMornay, BEAT starring Kiefer Sutherland and Courtney Love, and THE BIG BRASS RING starring William Hurt, Irene Jacob and Nigel Hawthorne. In addition, he was President of his own independent production company, Rogue Entertainment, which was sold to October Films in 1998. Mr. Ewald has produced or co-produced seven films which include DARK ASYLUM, THE PRINCESS & THE BARRIO BOY, ADDRESS UNKNOWN, CHARLIE’S GHOST STORY, ARTHUR’S QUEST, THE PRINCE AND THE SURFER and THE MILLION DOLLAR KID.
Lawrence Gray: was chairman and a founder of The Screenwriters' Workshop (Europe's largest Screenwriter organisation), wrote for 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 has been travelling in Asia for the past ten years and currently writes an occasional humorous column for The iMail, one of Hong Kong's leading newspapers, has published short stories in Dimsum Magazine and founded and runs the Hong Kong Writers Circle. He has taught screenwriting at The University of London, and sundry other colleges around London. He has held screenwriting classes at The Hong Kong Fringe Club, and regularly gives writing workshops in Hong Kong. He writes the notorious Wild East Newsletter, which can be subscribed to at his community website at http://lawrencegray.com
Richard Michaels Stefanik: was a Screenwriting Fellow at the American Film Institute then worked at several Hollywood studios, including Paramount Pictures and Walt Disney Productions. He has studied the Meisner Acting Technique and is now a member of the Playhouse West School and Repertory Theater in Hollywood. Richard was awarded a M.A. degree in Philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley and also studied Philosophy, Logic and Mathematics at Oxford University. Richard recently completed teaching a UCLA Feature Film Development Workshop: Making Megahit Movies, based on the content of his website: http://www.megahitmovies.com  a rewritten and updated version of a previous book on story structure, Structures of Fantasy, which analyzes the dramatic and comic elements found in commercially successful movies. Structures of Fantasy has been selected by the Writers Guild of America (WGA) Mentors Program for inclusion in the Recommended Screenwriting Books list and is described as "one of the best books on story structure. Lisa Alexander: Lisa Alexander was a producer of the Emmy Award winning mini series, ‘The Mists of Avalon.’ An epic re-telling of the Arthurian legend, it starred Anjelica Huston, Julianna Margulies and Joan Allen, and was based on the bestseller of the same name. Nominated for a total of nine Emmys in 2002, including Best Longform, it was the highest rated mini series ever with over 25 million viewers. Lisa is also a produced writer who has authored both fiction and non-fiction, documentary films and original screenplays. She began her film career in development. As Vice President of Academy Award winning actor James Coburn’s production company for over six and a half years, she worked at Viacom and developed over 70 projects. Many of these were with major networks, as well as films with such studios as Warner Brothers and Interscope. In her consulting career, she has taught workshops and counseled hundreds of clients one-on-one through the process of writing a screenplay. She has a B.A. in Writing from Columbia University and an M.A. in Clinical Psychology and Myth from Pacific Graduate Institute.
Membre du conseil: 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.
EHRENDIREKTION: 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.