AUTHORS, SCREENWRITERS AND CREATORS
Who you might meet in our Writer's Room
JAY C. KEY
Creator, Screenwriter
Founder
A Southern race related Crime Noir; a road-movie; a College film. Jay's genres are All-American. As are his demands the third act provide the kind of resolutions that are American Cinema's gift to the world.But as he is proving in his work for LOVE CHILD, his range is international and his compassion for his characters universal. Next up, a personal story about adoption.
Key Projects:
THE COLONEL'S CUT; EVIE'S APPLE; MIDNIGHT TO MARCH; BIRTH MOTHER
TOBIAS MEINECKE
Creator, Screenwriter, Producer
Founder
His teachers were European, their masterpieces American. And thus Tobias defies easy categorizing himself, with screenplays and projects set in the Americas, in Europe, Asia and Australia and genres spanning the full spectrum.
"As storytellers we work hard to find those emotional nuggets that are universal. The audience ought to feel the story, not through their senses alone, but in their heart."
Key Projects:
ELIZA FRASER; MOLTO AGITATO; EVIE'S APPLE; THE COLONEL'S CUT; 1956
ERIC DARTON
Novelist, Creator, Screenwriter
Professor
Eric Darton is a novelist and non-fiction writer based in New York. In 2000 he published DIVIDED WE STAND, a WTC prophecy. At Love Child he is currently the co-creator of ELIZA FRASER, co-screenwriter of ANGEL FALLS and co-creator of FREE CITY, a historical political fantasy based on his his FREE CITY Trilogy of books.
Key Projects:
ELIZA FRASER, FREE CITY, ANGEL FALLS
WILLIAM DAVID MYERS
Author, Historian
Professor
W. D. Myers is Associate Professor of History at Fordham University, author of POOR , SINNING FOLK and DEATH AND A MAIDEN and an expert on true crime in Central Europe of the early modern age (17th-19th Century). He spent 2 years researching German archives to unearth the fascinating true case of Grethe Schmidt and Justus Oldekopp, to be adapted for the screen by Love Child.
Key Projects:
DEATH AND A MAIDEN
ILSE SOMERS
Creator, Screenwriter
Professor
Ilse Somers is a US educated, Antwerp (Belgium) based screenwriter and filmmaker. She is a Professor of Screenwriting at the Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema and Sound in Brussels. At Love Child she is co-writing BIRTH MOTHER, a multi-storyline drama series about adoption, in parts based on her original motion picture screenplay FROM ADIS ABEBA.
Key Projects:
BIRTH MOTHER