sabot03196
sabot03196
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Bio
I've been writing professionally since my early twenties. After writing two novels and really getting nowhere with the deeply entrenched mainstream publishing industry at the time, in the mid nineties, I moved from writing novels to screenwriting.
I studied under Alan DiFiore (The David Milgard Story, DaVinci's Inquest, The Handler) at The Vancouver Film School in their Script Development Program. After the program I continued to hone my writing skills by writing and producing numerous short films.
The first was, "The Provider," a darkly comic tale about a farmer hunting a duck while saddled with a broken leg of his own. This was followed by, "Nobody Special," a thriller with a decidedly historical bent and finally, "The Terrible Old Man," which was sold to CBC, Bravo and Space. It also earned me a nomination in the Best Short Drama Screenwriting category in the 2002 Leos, the largest industry awards event in Western Canada.
In 2001, my family and I moved from Abbotsford, BC to Mississauga, ON.
After the move, I optioned a number of scripts and was hired on to write other projects as well. A number of these, "Write for hire," projects were produced and I secured an Agent and all that goes with that.
However film is a pretty tough game and after over a decade and a half of bashing my head against the wall of film production I decided to pull the plug and try to learn once again what it was to be happy when you write and to wrestle the demon that lives between my ears.
The new shift in the self publishing industry gives me hope and that's where my writing efforts are going to be focused from now on. I still have a few optioned films in, "Development," but for the most part, I no longer play in that arena. Which is not a bad thing believe me.
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