PAUL PEDITTO

Paul Peditto is an award-winning screenwriter and director. He wrote and directed Jane Doe, starring Calista Flockhart, which won Best Feature at the New York Independent Film & Video Festival. Six of his screenplays have been optioned, among them Crossroaders to Haft Entertainment (Emma, Dead Poets Society). Over the past decade, Paul has consulted with over 1,000 screenwriting students around the world. He is the author of Writing Screenplays (Self-Counsel Press, 2012). His new book, Surviving Outside Hollywood: Life Lessons For The D.I.Y. Filmmaker will be available through Self-Counsel Press. In addition to teaching at Chicago Filmmakers, Paul is an adjunct professor of screenwriting at Columbia College Chicago.