SCOTT JT FRANK 310-740-2726
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
2004 ROAD DOGS - stars Glenn Plummer Second Prize Boston Intnl Film Festival, H. M Santa Cruz film festival, Winner - The Other Venice Film Festival
1996 Emmy Award Winner, PICTURE WINDOWS: LANGUAGE OF THE HEART stars Michael Lerner
1995 Un Certain Regard, Cannes Film Festival, PICTURE WINDOWS: TWO NUDES stars John Hurt
1995 Two Time ACE AWARD WINNER and three time nominee PICTURE WINDOWS also won EMMY AWARD
1992 Winner, Cine Golden Eagle, The Special Gold Jury Award; Houston Film Festival, Silver Plaque; Chicago Film Festival for ROSEMARY; pilot for the Showtime series PICTURE WINDOWS.
1990 Emmy Nominated Writer, Outstanding Achievements/Writing; CBS series WHEN I GROW UP.
1988 AWARDED AFI’s AVC Award. Five Star Rating; ABC Clio, Honorable Mention; John Muir Fest, producer/director AIDS: THE FACTS OF LIFE, TV special stars Susan Sarandon, James Taylor and Iman.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
2016 - Screenwriter - U.S. - The Nu/Man
2015 - RIVER OF PARIDISE - Host and director of 90 minute documentary on religions of Iran.
2014 – HUMAN SHIELD –Producer/Director documentary on Mavi Marmara incident, Persian Gulf
2012-13 – Screenwriter, Zanzibar – Zombzibar – Screenwriter Iran – Still Waters Run
2009 -2011 – Executive Producer for Scolaris, a motion picture production and finance company.
2007 – 08 THE QUEST OF SHEHERZADE, Producer/Writer, Pakistan
2006 - CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE GOLFER’S SOUL: Supervising Producer, TV Documentary
2005 - CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL: Supervising Producer, TV Dramas
2002 - 04 - ROAD DOGS – Producer/Writer - Feature Film Starring Glenn Plummer and Chris Spencer
2001-03 – ROAD DOGS – Producer – Compilation Soundtrack CD for Feature Film – Artists Include:
Snoop Dogg, Nate Dogg, Ol’ Dirty Bastard, Mystic, Debelah Morgan, Wade III, Korn, RBX, BattleCat
1998-01 –PHENOMENON - Supervis Producer, Creator /Writer, 14 x 1 hr Episodes, PBS with Dean Stockwell
1995 - 97 - PICTURE WINDOWS - Creator & Producer, 7 x 30minute 35mm movies for Showtime, Emmy winner
Directors: N. Jewison, P. Bogdanovich, J. Kaplan, J. Dante, J. Boorman, B. Rafelson, D. Halperin
1994 - ROSEMARY - Producer – 35mm Pilot for Showtimes, PICTURE WINDOWS, Silver @ Chicago
1993 -CRAVEN - Producer - 35 mm x 30 min short - stars Patrick Beaucheau.
1991-Present - President of Epiphany Pictures. Creative Development/Production Company.
1990+91 - WHEN I GROW UP – CBS Childrens series, Writer/Editor Emmy Nom for writng
1989 - LIFTED - Producer - 35 mm Dir Breziner Writer Weingrod (Twins, Falling Down) - music ,Al Di Meola.
1988/9 - DENIAL - Exec V.P. Creative Dev., IDL,Inc. - stars Robin Wright, Rae Dawn Chong and Jason Patric.
1988/9 - AFTER DARK MY SWEET - Exec V.P. Creative Dev., IDL,Inc. – Dir. James Foley. Stars Bruce Dern, Rachel Ward and Jason Patric.
1987/88 - AIDS: The Facts Of Life - Producer/Director Stars Susan Sarandon, James Taylor, Iman
1987 - FLYING WITHOUT FEAR - Produced - 1/hr CBS/FOX special - stars Chuck Yeager.
1986 - WOMEN OF IRON - ProducerDirector - 1/hr doc - stars Bodybuilder Carla Dunlap, Deborah Dianna.
1985 - HIGH PERFORMANCE - Produced - feature NBC doc - starring Eric Bogosian, Rachel Rosenthal
1984 - THE GOLDEN SHER - Produced/Directed - PBS Independent documentary.
NEWS AND LIVE TELEVISION
New York - Lighting Cameraman for Network programs 60 Minutes, West 57th Street, 48 Hours, 20/20
International - Field Cameraman for Australian, German and Japanese television.
TECHNICAL TRAINING AND EDUCATION
1981-84 - Studio and remote film/television operations: WHT, Select TV, Northeastern Educ. TV.
Studied film/tv Antioch University, B.F.A. degree in film/ Cal Arts 1981.
Four years business management training, Workability,Inc., N.Y. 1985-1988
WRITTEN FOR THE SCREEN
2003 – 2001 Original Screenplay: THE AFRICAN
2004 - 2002 Original Screenplay: BLOOD, GOLD AND SKY/Co-Writer "Road Dogs"
2007 - 2008 Original Screenplay: THE QUEST OF SHEHERZADE
2008 – 2009 Original Screenplay: SNOWBLINDNESS
2010 – 2011 Original Screenplay: BALLBUSTER
20012 – Original Screenplay: ZOMBZIBAR
2013 – Original Screenplay: STILL WATERS RUN
2016 - Original Screenplay: THE NU/MAN