Written By...

 

Dan Ackman

 

Screenplays:

 

"Wilbur and Me": Everyone knows the Wright Brothers were the first to fly. But how did they do it, and what happened next?  MORE 

 

"The Good Shepherd": a thriller about a Alec Kosov, professor recruited a year after World War II to break into a Russian POW camp and break out with Germany’s top nuclear physicist. MORE

 

"Tight Deadline": a comedy about novelist and compulsive gambler Pete Dushinsky who is forced into a bet with his publisher that he can finish his long overdue novel in the next eight days. MORE

 

"Life of Johnson": a dramatic comedy about Willie Johnson, a third- string gangster, and his two best friends-- Tony, who would be Don of the Bergamos, and Boswell, special agent of the FBI. MORE

 

"Brink of War": a historical drama about Levi Eshkol, Prime Minister of Israel, facing the prospect of a united Arab attack on the eve of the Six Day War. MORE

 

"Affair with a Stranger": a romantic comedy about a young accountant who finds, but lies to, the woman of his dreams on the Internet, and then has to meet her in the flesh as the guy he really is. 

 

 

Screenwriting Awards and Honors:

Finalist: Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Nicholl Screenplay Competition (top ten out of 4000 submissions)

Semifinalist: Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Nicholl Screenplay Competition

Third Place: Maui Writers Conference Screenwriting Competition (third out of 600 submissions)

Finalist: Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference

 

Finalist: Writers' Foundation America's Best Competition

 

Finalist: Writers' Digest Screenplay Competition

 

Two-time Semifinalist: Chesterfield Film Company Competition  

 

Manhattan Screenwriters Workshop Primer: 
How To Write a Screenplay

 

CONTACT:

Dan Ackman | 212-496-2263 | danackman@yahoo.com

http://dackman.homestead.com