Alex George Pickering

Alex George Pickering is an LA-based screenwriter and producer repped by Citizen Skull Management with his writing partner Matthew Breault. Originally from Boston, MA, Alex got his BA in English/Writing at Georgetown University before earning an MFA in Cinema-TV Production at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. At USC, Alex wrote the FotoKem gold-winning short Efrain, USC's best film of 2011, and the Ryan Coogler-directed short Fig, distributed on HBO and Kanopy. Since then, Alex has written webisodes of Puss in Boots and Kung Fu Panda for DreamWorksTV and optioned several feature scripts, including the upcoming features Crate and Impulse Control. He also won the Filmmatic Drama, Shore Scripts Drama, Script Pipeline TV and Script2Comic contests, as well as finalist awards in the Nicholl Fellowship, Austin Film Festival, WeScreenplay, ScreenCraft and more. Most recently, Alex has been developing the upcoming Scout Comics series Heard (with movie rights by Mosaic Media) and has set up his feature historical drama Jumpman with a prominent production company.