Max D. Adams
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Max D. Adams, born in Los Angeles
California
, is an American
screenwriter
.
Max Adams is an award winning screenwriter and author living in Los Angeles, CA. She has worked with Columbia Pictures, Hollywood Pictures, Touchstone Pictures, Universal Pictures, Walt Disney Studios, and Tri-Star Pictures. Organizations she has lectured and/or taught at include University of Southern California, Austin Film Festival, Squaw Valley Community of Writers, Film Arts Foundation, New York Film Academy and the Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts and Sciences. She is a former Writers Guild of America, West online mentor, is the founder of two international online screenwriting workshops, The Left Door and 5150, is a judge/reader for the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences' Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting, and is the author of "The Screenwriter’s Survival Guide: Or, Guerrilla Meeting Tactics and Other Acts of War.” Recipient of numerous awards including, most recently, a University of Utah 2010 College of Fine Arts Distinguished Alumni Award, Max is a former New York Film Academy faculty member and a current Gotham Writer’s Workshop and University of Utah faculty member as well as the dean and founder of the online writing program Academy of Film Writing. Her produced feature films include Excess Baggage [credited] and The Ladykillers [uncredited
Max's play Exorcising the Dog won Salt Lake City's Utah Shorts Theatre competition and was produced by Theatre Works West and her play "The Lonely Play" was published by Collages & Bricolages. She is the recipient of a Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting Fellowship from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
for her script My Back Yard and the recipient of the Austin Film Festival
Screenwriting Award for Excess Baggage
, a script produced by Columbia Pictures
. She is also the winner of an America's Best award, a Forum Screenwriting Award, and the 2010 recipient of the University of Utah College of Fine Arts Distinguished Alumni Award in Film.
Max's book The Screenwriter's Survival Guide; Or Guerilla Meeting Tactics and Other Acts of War was published by Warner Books in 2001 and a new edition, "Guerrilla Meeting Tactics and Other Acts of War," is scheduled for publication 2011.
Max is represented by Harley Copen, ICM.
Max's former students and workshoppers include 3 Nicholl Fellowship winners, Disney and Warner Brothers winners, and numerous working screenwriters. She credits her success to her first instructor, Frank McAdams, her former mentor and teacher David Trottier, her University of Utah instructors Kevin Hanson and Paul Larson, and her Nicholl Fellowship mentors Greg Beal, Eva Marie Saint, and Gale Anne Hurd.
Los Angeles, California
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California
California
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, is an American
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screenwriter
Screenwriter
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Max Adams is an award winning screenwriter and author living in Los Angeles, CA. She has worked with Columbia Pictures, Hollywood Pictures, Touchstone Pictures, Universal Pictures, Walt Disney Studios, and Tri-Star Pictures. Organizations she has lectured and/or taught at include University of Southern California, Austin Film Festival, Squaw Valley Community of Writers, Film Arts Foundation, New York Film Academy and the Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts and Sciences. She is a former Writers Guild of America, West online mentor, is the founder of two international online screenwriting workshops, The Left Door and 5150, is a judge/reader for the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences' Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting, and is the author of "The Screenwriter’s Survival Guide: Or, Guerrilla Meeting Tactics and Other Acts of War.” Recipient of numerous awards including, most recently, a University of Utah 2010 College of Fine Arts Distinguished Alumni Award, Max is a former New York Film Academy faculty member and a current Gotham Writer’s Workshop and University of Utah faculty member as well as the dean and founder of the online writing program Academy of Film Writing. Her produced feature films include Excess Baggage [credited] and The Ladykillers [uncredited
Max's play Exorcising the Dog won Salt Lake City's Utah Shorts Theatre competition and was produced by Theatre Works West and her play "The Lonely Play" was published by Collages & Bricolages. She is the recipient of a Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting Fellowship from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is a professional honorary organization dedicated to the advancement of the arts and sciences of motion pictures...
for her script My Back Yard and the recipient of the Austin Film Festival
Austin Film Festival
The Austin Film Festival was started in 1994 in Austin, Texas and is claimed to be "the first organization of its kind to focus on the writer’s unique creative contribution to the film and television industries"...
Screenwriting Award for Excess Baggage
Excess Baggage
Excess Baggage is a 1997 crime-comedy film written by Max D. Adams, Dick Clement, and Ian La Frenais, and directed by Marco Brambilla about a neglected young woman who stages her own kidnapping to get her father's attention, only to be literally kidnapped by a car thief...
, a script produced by Columbia Pictures
Columbia Pictures
Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an American film production and distribution company. Columbia Pictures now forms part of the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, a subsidiary of the Japanese conglomerate Sony. It is one of the leading film companies...
. She is also the winner of an America's Best award, a Forum Screenwriting Award, and the 2010 recipient of the University of Utah College of Fine Arts Distinguished Alumni Award in Film.
Max's book The Screenwriter's Survival Guide; Or Guerilla Meeting Tactics and Other Acts of War was published by Warner Books in 2001 and a new edition, "Guerrilla Meeting Tactics and Other Acts of War," is scheduled for publication 2011.
Max is represented by Harley Copen, ICM.
Max's former students and workshoppers include 3 Nicholl Fellowship winners, Disney and Warner Brothers winners, and numerous working screenwriters. She credits her success to her first instructor, Frank McAdams, her former mentor and teacher David Trottier, her University of Utah instructors Kevin Hanson and Paul Larson, and her Nicholl Fellowship mentors Greg Beal, Eva Marie Saint, and Gale Anne Hurd.