James Fernald

• Innovative motivational approach of presenting the craft of writing for film to students.
• Mentoring students for nearly 100 fiction film projects annually
• Unique PR and marketing research to increase student applications, such as shooting student productions at high schools around Denmark, with plans to go international.
• Spearheaded international alumnae outreach via social media, creating an international group with over 2500 members, and smaller groups in over 25 countries.
• Designed and promoted reunions for over 100 alumnae annually, both in Ebeltoft and Copenhagen.
• Developed worldwide network of alumnae from over 30 countries via gatherings in their home cities with screenings of their films.

• Unique international storytelling workshop at locations around the globe, including Bermuda, Portugal, Poland, and Lithuania.
• All workshops conducted with Jan Harlan, the venerable and acclaimed producer of Stanley Kubrick's later works.
• Energizing multi-media and discussion format with delving, productive development of participant's projects.

• Represented by A-level Los Angeles talent and literary agency
• Wrote 21 feature length screenplays many of which went to the top of the studio ladder and have been seriously considered for production.
• Latest project, an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic short story "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz", is under consideration at major Los Angeles studios and production companies
• Have a large fanbase of film producers and studio creative executives in Los Angeles and New York.

• Covered hundreds of feature-length speculation scripts annually. Chose projects for possible development.
• Pitched, developed and oversaw recruitment of writers for adaptation projects.
• Helped clients to translate creative vision into reality.
• Worked with esteemed Australian writers to develop their projects in Hollywood.
• Worked with agents, producers, and studio executives on developing projects

• Worked with celebrated producer Polly Platt creating a feature film division of LA's biggest independent TV production company.
• Solicited and chose screenplays for possible production
• Assisted in developing projects with our in-house writers

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