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Ron Podell

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On the red carpet at the 2015 AOF Film Awards.
Born and raised in Valparaiso, Indiana,, Ron Podell remembers his first experience in a movie theater, watching a release of "Sleeping Beauty" with his Dad. The memory of the evil queen morphing into a giant dragon sticks with him to this day.

An award-winning professional journalist who has been telling stories since his high school newspaper days, Podell, to date. has written five feature screenplays and 15 short screenplays, three of which have been produced. His scripts have won more than 60 top awards at films festivals/screenwriting contests, along with too many nominations/script finalist statuses to count. His short script "All Tapped Out" was the recent grand prize winner of the American Gem Literary Festival and is expected to be produced sometime during 2019.

Podell is included in the book, titled "Top 50 Indie Writers in the World," that was released in early 2017 through Apple iTunes. He was named Writer of the Year at the 2016 Action on Film International Film Festival and was nominated for Writer of the Year at both the 2017 and 2018 Austin Revolution Film Festival. He won the first-ever James Christopher Scribe Award at the 2017 Bare Bones International Film and Music Festival. He has served as a screenwriter panelist at the Glendale International Film Festival, Sutter Creek Film Festival and the former Screenwriting Expo in Los Angeles.

He is a member of the WGAW Independent Writers Caucus and his feature script "Blood Trigger" is available in paperback and e-book on Amazon.

He received his bachelor's degree in journalism from Franklin College in Franklin, Ind., and has worked for newspapers in Indiana, Florida and Maryland, national newsletters in Washington, D.C., and at two institutions of higher education. He is a communications specialist at the University of Wyoming.

Other early childhood influences were the original "King Kong", "Casablanca", "The Wizard of Oz", Saturday night "Creature Features" and too many John Wayne and Humphrey Bogart movies to count.

As a young boy, he eventually graduated to such popcorn films as "Jaws", "Star Wars", and "Raiders of the Lost Ark." Podell counts the first two "Godfather" films, "Rocky" and "Goodfellas" among his all-time favorites. He appreciates today's special-effects technology that can bring comic book stories to breathtaking life while simultaneously admiring the storytelling of movies during the 1970s.

Favorite recent screenplays in the past decade include "The Departed", "Juno" and "No Country for Old Men."

"However, Billy Wilder remains the master," Podell said.

Podell's ultimate career ambition is to produce a healthy balance of spec screenplays and works for hire for studios and production companies of actors and directors he admires.
BornDecember 12, 1965
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Screenwriter Ron Podell and actress Deborah Kara Unger. 2010 AOF Film Festival, Pasadena, Calif.
Screenwriter Ron Podell with actor Steven Bauer. 2010 AOF Film Festival, Pasadena, Calif.
Screenwriter Ron Podell with actor Mark Ruffalo. 2010 AOF Film Festival, Pasadena, Calif.
Enjoying a celebratory drink after winning a screenwriting award at the 2016 Northern Virginia International Film and Music Festival. Angelika Theater.
With actress Rosario Elena Hernandez at the 2017 L.A. Neo Noir Novel, Film and Script Festival in Culver City. My script "Blood Trigger" won best screenplay.
Posing on the red carpet. 2017 Northern Virginia International Film and Music Festival.
With my bronze award in the drama feature category for my screenplay "Stages." TrindieFest 2014 in Trinidad, Colorado.
With Josh Hope, director of the 2017 Twister Alley Film Festival in Woodward, Oklahoma.
Received second place in the feature screenplay category for "Blood Trigger" at the 2017 Twister Alley Film Festival in Woodward, Oklahoma.
With James Christopher, director of the feature film "The Five Year," on which I was an associate producer. World premiere was at the 2017 Twister Alley Film Festival in Woodward, Oklahoma.
With actress Alysia Rivera, who started in the feature film "The Five Year," on which I was an associate producer. Twister Alley Film Festival 2017 in Woodward, Oklahoma.
With festival director Fernando Mico and filmmaker Kylie Garcelon. 2017 Northern Virginia International Film and Music Festival.

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The Wave
Short
  • Writer
  • 2011
A Rain Remembered
Short
  • Writer
  • 2010

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Writer

  • The Wave
    • writer
    • Short
    • 2011
  • Hack to the Future
    • Writer
    • Short
    • 2011
  • A Rain Remembered
    • Writer
    • Short
    • 2010

Producer

  • The 5 Year (2017)
    The 5 Year
    • associate producer
    • 2017
  • The Last Beautiful Girl (2016)
    The Last Beautiful Girl
    • associate producer
    • 2016

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  • Height
    • 5′ 7″ (1.70 m)
  • Born
    • December 12, 1965
    • Valparaiso, Indiana, USA

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