DENNIS GOLDBERG

 Fiction Writer Extraordinaire

 "You want it, I write it!"

 

RECENT SCREENWRITING BIOGRAPHY:


I am an award winning, produced screenwriter who can be found on the Internet Movie Data Base at http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2661923/

I am the co-writer of the new show in post production for Watkins Entertainment entitled ‘WANNABE ME’, a comedy spoof on HOLLYWOOD.  The in process website can be seen at http://www.wannabeme.tv .  
 

I have just been hired to adopt a screenplay loosely based upon the novel 'The Parker Ranch Of Hawaii' and to tell the tragic true story as related to me by an aggrieved family member.

 

My feature screenplay COLORADO FIFTY has just been optioned and is scheduled for a 2009 summer production.

  

I am the writer of 'I'LL GET YOU, HARRY' which took second place in the student film maker/short film category at The Indie Gathering found at http://www.theindiegathering.com/2008.htm.  The film was made by Branislav Tatalovic a first year student at Chapman College.

 

My feature screenplay COLORADO FIFTY has just been optioned and is scheduled for a 2009 summer production.

 

I am the co-writer of the currently available feature film 'A VIKING SAGA, SON OF THOR' which received second place in the Bare Bones International Film Festival as well as the following:  A double win at FIRST TAKE FILM FESTIVAL, Augusta, Georgia as WINNER - BEST INDEPENDENT FILMMAKER and WINNER - BEST MUSICAL SCORE.  It has been nominated as BEST PICTURE at Florida Media Market.

 

My other more recently produced Screenplays/teleplays are as follows:

 

2008:

 

'BEAUTIFUL PRINCESS' a short film now in student pre-production.

 

'YOU OWE ME ONE' a single location, very low budget single location screenplay is now in pre-production for shooting late summer of 2008 by Bruno Tatalovic who's bio can be seen on www.tatalovic.org/harry_short_film  .  He is also working with me on a new 1/2 hour TV series entitled 'THE TWO BIT STORY TELLER'.  More about Bruno can be found at  www.tatalovic.org and
www.myspace.com/tatalovic

 

 

 

'BEAUTIFUL PRINCESS' a short film now in student pre-production.

 

'YOU OWE ME ONE' a single location, very low budget single location screenplay is now in pre-production for shooting late summer of 2008 by Bruno Tatalovic who's bio can be seen on www.tatalovic.org/harry_short_film  .  He is also working with me on a new 1/2 hour TV series entitled 'THE TWO BIT STORY TELLER'.  More about Bruno can be found at  www.tatalovic.org and
www.myspace.com/tatalovic

 

Sold the short screenplay ‘Barney's Wish’ to Showbiz Shorts, LLC for late fall production. 

 

Completed an epic religeous screenplay for Mipros Productions entitled ‘Our Lady Of Fatima’ scheduled for pre-production late Fall 2008 to be shot in Portugal summer of 2009. 

 

Completed a screenplay for Watkins Entertainment scheduled for shooting in France in 2009.  This was written from an idea given to me by the producer from which I developed the treatment and then the screenplay.  It is an epic action adventure in 1630 France. 

 

My low budget film noir thriller 'XXX MOTEL MURDERS' is in early pre-production for a summer 2009 production.

 

‘PAST ALL DISHONOR’ a feature Screenplay written for 72 Films Production is scheduled for late 2008 pre-production (Montreal) Producer/Director Max Perrier.  

‘The Matadors’ (Working Title) Feature Screenplay Mipros Productions.  Currently in Post Production/editing, Florida.  Director: Michael Mouyal.  

I am the co-writer of the new show in post production for Watkins Entertainment entitled ‘WANNABE ME’, a comedy spoof on HOLLYWOOD.  The in process website can be seen at http://www.wannabeme.tv/.  You may click on the various books thus viewing areas of interest.  If you click on GOSSIP you can then view videos of some of the stars in the show.  The trailer will be available shortly.

I am the writer of 'I'LL GET YOU, HARRY' which took second place in the student film maker/short film category at The Indie Gathering found at http://www.theindiegathering.com/2008.htm.  The film was made by Branislav Tatalovic a first year student at Chapman College.

 

My feature screenplay COLORADO FIFTY has just been optioned and is scheduled for a 2009 summer production.

‘Little Bit of Discipline’ is a short Screenplay completed by the Boulder Asian Film Festival in the fall of 2006, Boulder, Colorado; Directed by Alan O’Hashi. 

 

‘The Bad Guy Speaks’ is a short screenplay produced by Workshedpictures.  Completed 2005 Cleveland, Ohio Director Branislav ‘Bruno’ Tatalovic with European premiere held at Belgrade Documentary & Short Film Festival 2006. 

 

‘Land of Shadows’ is a short screenplay student production completed 2005 at the New York University by director Patrick Tashadian.


SCREENWRITING COMPETION AWARDS:

Dennis Goldberg ceased entering screenwriting contests in late 2001 to allow other writers an opportunity to receive awards.

The following are his screenwriting contest placements:
 

2002 - Short screenplay 'Long Live The Cat' was one of four FINALISTS in the Bare Bones International Screenplay Contest.

 

2002 - Feature screenplay 'Maggie' was one of four FINALISTS in the Bare Bones International Screenplay Contest.

 

2002 - Feature screenplay 'Kakorraphiaphobia' received HONORABLE MENTION in the Best In The West Screenwriting Competition.

 

2002 - Short screenplay 'Long Live The Cat' was a 'SPECIAL MENTION' in the 2001 American Gem Short Script Competition.


2001 - Feature screenplay 'Ekahi Of Hawaii' won FIRST PLACE for animation at the Santa Clarita International film festival.

 

2001 - Feature screenplay 'Two At Low Eight' was a SEMI-FINALIST in Worldfest-Houston.

 

2001 - Feature screenplay 'Irreverent Interns' was a semi-finalist in the Bare Bones International Screenplay & Film Festival Competition thus receiving 'HONORABLE MENTION'.

 

2000 - Feature screenplay 'Double Bubble Trouble' won SECOND PLACE for animation at the Burbank International Children's Film Festival.

 

2000 - Feature screenplay 'African Adventure' was in the TOP TEN in the Red Inkworks screenwriting competition.

 

2000 - Feature screenplays, 'Ekahi of Hawaii' and 'Double Bubble Trouble', were in the TOP TEN of the Skorpeonyx entertainment screenwriting competition.

 

2000 - Feature screenplay 'The Phantom Of The Comedy Club' was a FINALIST in the Bare Bones International Screenplay & Film Festival.

 

1999 - Feature screenplay 'Running Deer' received 'HONORABLE MENTION in the Best In The West Screenwriting Competition.

 

1999 - Feature screenplay 'Ekahi of Hawaii' was eliminated in the final competition at the Flagstaff International Film Festival.

 

1998 - In the Hutton-McLean Literary Associates Writing Contest - WINNER  of the short screenplay competition with 'Romero And Julie'.


SCREENWRITING INSTRUCTORS UNDER WHOM HE HAS STUDIED: (ALPHABETICALLY)

Edward DiLorenzo, John Vorhaus, Les Roberts, Malvin Wald, Danny Simon and Scott Young.

DENNIS GOLDBERG IS ALSO A WELL SEASONED PROSE FICTION WRITER:

2007:

DOUBLE BUBBLE TROUBLE - A fantasy novel for 10 - 14 year olds published by Level 4 Press found at  
http://www.level4press.com/ . Dennis Goldberg is currently in Los Angeles promoting this as well as continuing to write episodes for the TV show WANNABEME.

SHORT STORY HISTORY:

Dennis Goldberg has penned over 130 short stories entitled 'From Chuckles to Chills' which vary from mainstream to experimental; from twenty-five word flash fiction to novella; and represent all genres.

DENNIS GOLDBERG'S PUBLISHED SHORT STORIES:

2006 - Scary Stories - Series #4 - The Dennis Goldberg Collection by Sesson Literary Publications.

2005 - 'Old Age, Not' published in paper back in Scary Stories - Series #003 by Sesson Literary Publications
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2005 - 'Eye Spy' published in paper back in Scary Stories - Series #002 by Sesson Literary Publications
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2005 - 'We All Have To Go Sometime' published in hard back in October in Doses Of Death: A Macabre Collection of Small-Town Terror by America's New and Emerging Writers - by Red Lotus Press

2005 - 'Donna and the Genie' published on line by Aphelion 
http://www.aphelion-webzine.com/index2.htm#04 Issue 94, volume 9 -- July 2005

2005 - 'Time Traveling Cop' published by Barcid Homily on line  
http://64.62.198.28/weblog.php?id=C0_9_1  Mon Jun 20, 2005 

2005 - 'Genie' published on line by Dark Romance
http://www.darkromance.com/  then click on 'The Dark Arts', then click on 'Literature - Contemporary Offerings'.

2005 - 'The Bad Guy Speaks' published in paper back in Scary Stories - Series #001 by Sesson Literary Publications.

2004 - 'Blackmail' published by Orchard Press Mysteries LLC

2004 - 'Edith's Adonis' published by EventsQuarterly.com.  

2004 - Don't Upset The Bee's Nest' - Published by Mocha Memoirs.

2002 - 'Troy's Tree' published on line by Cenotaph Pocket Edition

2000 - 'The Ring' was WINNER of the 1999, last quarter, short story contest of the Writer's Web West.
 

And please note, I have vast e-mail collaboration experience as a

screenwriter.

 



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