Alex Ross:

(Founder of WriteMovies.com), has lectured at the London Film School, Bournemouth College, University College York etc. as well as UCLA & Chapman College in the U.S. He is available for lectures and seminars on screenwriting as well as on all aspects of project development, marketing, production etc. It is also possible to team up with other members of the WriteMovies.com board (subject to their availability). For further info please write us:

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 will participate as a panelist at the Megahit Movies Orlando Workshop in March and the Las Vegas Screenwriting Conference (June 13-15). Alex has been a guest lecturer at several colleges and film schools in Europe, as well as at UCLA and Chapman College. He is available for lectures and seminars.

Tom Craig: