THE SCOUT

BEFORE YOU

SLASH-IN-THE-BOX

ABOUT ME

I wrote my first screenplay when I was 15. That script landed me a Manager I met via an AOL screenwriting chat room.

Before I went to college, I had optioned two projects (and yet, I was still rejected by USC). I sold my first script at 21. I thought I had unlocked the door to Hollywood success, but I spent the next 15 years trying to figure out this crazy business. 

I have worked on over forty films. Each project has taught me something valuable. I have learned how to make a movie under ANY circumstance, and I’ve encountered every problem you could possibly imagine (a star breaking her ankle the night before an action scene, a picture car catching fire and exploding on an active highway, cameras freezing in a sub-zero blizzard, trapped in a location by a flash-flood on an alligator swamp, escorted by armed military past Guatemalan guerillas, having footage confiscated by South African rangers).

I always tell aspiring filmmakers:  “There are much easier ways to make money. If you want to make movies, you have to love it.”  

And I do. I really love it.