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Alex Ross has 15 years of experience working with major Hollywood writers.
Amongst
whom: Andrew Niccol (Truman Show), Pat Duncan (Mr. Holland's Opus), and Iris
Yamashita
(Letters from Iwo Jima).

You have spent months on your script.

You get one chance at impressing studios, agencies and production companies.

You owe yourself the best if you want to get into the big leagues.

Educated at the universities of Heidelberg, Cambridge and the ESCP/EAP business
school
in Paris. Alex Ross is fluent in four languages.

He started his filmmaking career by working for Ismail Merchant on "Maurice"
(with Hugh
Grant).

Trained in the famous 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.

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 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 Film 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.

The movie was acquired by Warner Bros. and Alex was asked to produce three more
films
for the studio.

Various other projects are in various stages of development/pre-production and
the
company is actively looking for new projects.

For further info please write to: Author@... or check out the
consulting
section on www.WriteMovies.com





Thu Nov 22, 2007 3:23 pm

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