MICHAEL GOLDBURG is an award-winning filmmaker and alum of NYU's Graduate Film Program. Michael's feature screenplay for his crime comedy, SURE-FIRE, is a top-ranked script on Coverfly and has placed in several other prestigious screenplay competitions, including ScreenCraft, Shore Scripts, and Beverly Hills. Michael's celebrated short version of SURE-FIRE has screened at numerous film festivals and won or was nominated for multiple awards, including Best Comedy, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor, and Best Supporting Actor. The short also caught the attention of Sony Pictures Classics and Bleecker Street who are both tracking the feature for distribution. Michael’s team for the SURE-FIRE feature includes advisor Joe Pirro, Head of Production at Symbolic Exchange ("The Assistant"), founded by James Schamus (former CEO of Focus Features). Joe feels Michael is part of the "next wave of emerging filmmakers to break through to wider audiences." Michael is also developing a feature adaptation of a darkly comic novel by the former book editor of "The Chicago Tribune” in Sundance Collab with Oscar-nominated screenwriter Naomi Foner. Michael's other acclaimed work includes his horror-comedy, WHAT'S EATING DAD?, which screened at numerous film festivals, won multiple awards, and streams on Amazon Prime as well as TRAGIC RELIEF, an award-winning web series by writers from The Onion and Comedy Central, featured on Funny or Die.
DAVE CHAN is an award-winning writer/producer who studied screenwriting at New York University and is founder of the independent production company, Navy Yard Films. His short comedy script "Fly!" is a winner of the Academy Award-qualifying Nashville Film Festival among others, and his "Family Guy: What The Phuc?!" spec script won or placed in 25 competitions including the prestigious Austin Film Festival as a Second Rounder. And his television pilot script "County of Kings" is a Finalist in the industry-sponsored Catalyst Content Festival.
STEVE WISNIEWSKI has had his scripts final or place over a dozen times in national screenwriting competitions, including AFI and Scriptapalooza, and has placed in the top 10% of the Nicholl Fellowships and the Austin Film Festival. Steve has also had several of his screenplays optioned by producers, including one which is currently in pre-production. He is also a playwright, with productions regionally and in New York, including the New York International Fringe Festival.
WINNER: BEST COMEDY
Sure-Fire
Roosevelt Island Film Festival
New York, New York
2021
NOMINATED: BEST COMEDY
Sure-Fire
Milledgeville-Eatonton (ME) Film Festival
Milledgeville, Georgia
2019
WINNER: Audience Award
The Break
Iron Mule Comedy Film Festival
New York, NY
2018
WINNER: Audience Award, Best Acting Ensemble Award, & Iron Mule Comedy Award
The Break
48 Hour Film Project
New York, NY
2018
NOMINATED: BEST DIRECTOR
Sure-Fire
Portland Comedy Film Festival
Portland, Oregon
2018
NOMINATED: BEST COMEDY & BEST SCREENPLAY
Sure-Fire
Queens World Film Festival
Queens, New York
2018
WINNER: BEST SCREENPLAY & BEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY - PJ MARSHALL
Sure-Fire
Et Cultura
St. Petersburg, Florida
2017
WINNER: BEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY - PJ MARSHALL
Sure-Fire
Williamsburg Independent Film Festival
Brooklyn, New York
2017
NOMINATED: BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR - JOHN TIMOTHY
Sure-Fire
Kew Gardens Festival of Cinema
Kew Gardens, New York
2017
WINNER: BEST ACTOR - PJ MARSHALL
Sure-Fire
River Bend Film Festival
Goshen, Indiana
2017
AUDIENCE AWARD - BEST FILM
Rye Manhattan
Iron Mule Comedy Film Festival
New York, New York
2016
Best of Festival - Silver Whiskers Award
What's Eating Dad?
IndieWorks Film Festival
New York, New York
2016
Jury Commendation - Live Action Short Comedy
What's Eating Dad?
Durango Independent Film Festival
Durango, Colorado
2016
WINNER - BEST COMEDY
What's Eating Dad?
Williamsburg Independent Film Festival
Brooklyn, New York
2015
HONORABLE MENTION - BEST HORROR COMEDY SHORT
What's Eating Dad?
Upstate NY Horror Film Festival
Rochester, New York
2015
NOMINATED - BEST ACTRESS: MORGAN WRIGHT
What's Eating Dad?
Eerie Horror Film Festival
Erie, Pennsylvania
2015
NOMINATED - BEST SCREENPLAY: MICHAEL GOLDBURG
What's Eating Dad?
Diabolique International Film Festival
Bloomington, Indiana
2015
BEST ACTOR IN A SHORT FILM: BRENNAN TAYLOR
What's Eating Dad?
Macabre Faire Film Festival
Hauppauge, NY
2015
BEST PICTURE & BEST MAKE-UP
What's Eating Dad?
My Final Shot Production Screening Series
New York, New York
2015
REMI AWARD / SPECIAL JURY AWARD: FANTASY/HORROR FILM
What's Eating Dad?
WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival
Houston, TX
2015
SIOUXSIE AWARD - BEST HORROR/SCI-FI/FANTASY FILM
What's Eating Dad?
Siouxland Film Festival
Sioux City, Iowa
2015
NOMINATED - BEST ACTRESS: BARBARA MILUSKI
What's Eating Dad?
Houston Comedy Film Festival
Houston, TX
2015
AUDIENCE AWARD & JUDGES' PRIZE - BEST FILM
What's Eating Dad?
Iron Mule Comedy Film Festival
New York, NY
2015
BEST COMEDY-HORROR SHORT FILM
What's Eating Dad?
Atlanta Horror Film Festival
Atlanta, GA
2014
PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD - BEST FILM
What's Eating Dad?
Red Hook International Film Festival
Brooklyn, NY
2014
Finalist
Sure-Fire
Beverly Hills Screenplay Contest
Beverly Hills, California
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