Rolfe Kanefsky

Rolfe Kanefsky is an award-winning screenwriter/director who has been working professionally in the film business for over twenty years. With 27 produced feature film scripts, including 2008's BLONDE AND BLONDER starring Pamela Anderson and Denise Richards, produced by Lions Gate and After Dark; NIGHTMARE MAN, one of the eight films selected for Horrorfest that turned into the 15th bestseller DTV horror film of 2008, starring Tiffany Shepis and Richard Moll; the Warner Brothers release of JACQUELINE HYDE; the teen comedies PRETTY COOL & PRETTY COOL TOO!; the thriller TOMORROW BY MIDNIGHT with Carol Kane, Alexis Arquette, and Jorge Garcia; and the horror flick THE HAZING starring Brad Dourif, Brooke Burke, and Perry Shen. Most recently, Kanefsky wrote and directed the modern film noir ONE IN THE GUN starring Steven Man, Steven Bauer, Robert Davi, and James Russo which just played as the closing night film of the 2010 Soho International Film Festival. His latest horror thriller SCREAM PARK is being developed with Marc Amin's Sobini Films and Lions Gate.

Kanefsky recently contributed to Jim Vine's book, “Q & A: The Working Screenwriter” alongside such other successful writers including David J. Schow (THE CROW), Brent Maddock (SHORT CIRCUIT, TREMORS), Katrerine Fugate (VALENTINE'S DAY), Stephen Susco (THE GRUDGE 1 & 2), Allison Burnett (AUTUMN IN NEW YORK) and ten other selected writers.

Kanefsky won a top screenplay award at L.A. Shriekfest competition and was a featured cover story of Hollywood Scriptwriter magazine, which profiled Kanefsky and his body of work. Kanefsky has also received acclaim for his scripts and directing in Variety, Hollywood Reporter, Fangoria Magazine, New York Times, L.A. Times, L.A. Weekly, and many film websites. His features have been selected and have won multiple awards at prestigious film festivals around the world.

Having personally worked in most genres including comedy, horror, thrillers, science-fiction, erotica, drama, film noir, action-adventure and suspense mysteries. Kanefsky is experienced in all aspects of the writing process, whether it be selling spec scripts, writing assignments for hire, developing other people's concepts/treatments, or rewriting and doctoring existing scripts. As a director, he has also followed many of those scripts through the stages of production and into distribution for both theatrical and direct-to-video releases.

For more information, please contact- Rolfe30@yahoo.com or call (818) 505-1076.

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