Chuck Loch

POSITIONS:
· Staff Writer, wrote such titles as “The Perfect Song,” “The Hand of Greed,” and “No Honor Here” for the one-hour drama series, Two Roads, produced by Charisma Productions of Beirut, Lebanon for Middle Eastern television. 1/09 - 6/10

· Game Designer/Proposal Writer for an extension of, StarRovers, a huge MMO-RPG currently being designed by VirtueArts, Inc. of Marina Del Rey, CA for The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). 4/08 - 8/08

· Game Design Consultant to VirtueArts, Inc., a game development company specializing in science-based single-player, multiple-player, and MMO games. 12/07 - 12/08

· Consulting Producer and Story Editor, L. A. Dreams/Oceans Away, a 14-episode documentary series on the lives of Chinese foreign students in America, at Palette Studios. Los Angeles, CA. 4/07 - 11/07

· Consulting Producer/Writer, Cohen Brown Picture Company. Los Angeles, CA. 3/06 - 9/06

· Creative Executive, blackbird fly entertainment (sic). Northridge, CA. 7/05 - 12/05

· UCLA: Teaching Assistant to screenwriter Dee Caruso in the UCLA Department of Theater, Film & Television Summer Screenwriting Program 6/00 - 8/00. On staff for the 1st annual Screenwriting Conference 7/01; judge for the Professional Program’s Screenwriting Competition 2005; & produced the 2004 student-run Screenwriters Showcase competition.

· Assistant To Emmy nominated and Peabody Award winning Producer-Director-Screenwriter Robert Totten, at Totten Family Film Company. Sherman Oaks, CA. 1/94 - 12/94

· Associate Producer and Story Editor, for Peabody/Emmy/WGA Award-winning producer, Lee Levinson, at The Late Bloomer Co., Ltd. Burbank, CA. Promoted from intern. 4/93 - 12/93


FILM PROJECTS:
· Optioned original feature, Then I Became Death, Destroyer of Worlds, as a premium channel event movie to producer Lee Levinson, The Late Bloomer Co., Ltd. New York. 2005

· Screenplay assignments. Action/thriller: The Protectors, Casting1 Productions (WB). Producer M. DeSante (Consulting Producer - Sleeper Cell) 2006. Burbank, CA; scifi & comedy: Time Passages and For the Love of Grace, The Late Bloomer Co., Ltd. New York, NY. 2007

· Uncredited story assignments: Party Crashers, sequel to Wedding Crashers, and Audie Murphy biopic, Hero. Northern Star Productions. San Francisco and Calgary. 2006

· Spec assignment on page one rewrite of the comedy feature, King of the Condo, at The Late Bloomer Co., Ltd. Producer: Lee Levinson. Targeted for Jersey Films. 1999

· Page one feature rewrite assignment, A Promise. Producer-Director: Robert Totten. 1993

· Rewriting assignments on independent features for Unica Entertainment (Chantilly Lace and Panic in Pallue), and for HG Productions (Caribbean Kaleidoscope, El Dragon and Cities of Stone), both of Los Angeles, CA. 1993

· Wrote 10 A-level spec features as UCLA Graduate Program Projects: The Mysterious Smiths of Maine, Book of Angels (Codex Angelorum), Bloodlines, Home Run, Who’s Beside You Now? The Interrogator, Project Ernie - Interview with a Hero, Touch-Up, Now I am Death, Destroyer of Worlds, and Fort Apache, Iraq. 2000 - 2005

· Won over 35 national screenwriting awards, including: Best Screenplay at 2002 Breckenridge Festival of Film and Red Inkworks competitions; Third Place in 2004 Red Inkworks and 2005 Breakthrough with A Scream contests; 2005, 2004, 2003 and/or 2002 finalist in Scriptapalooza, Cinestory, Roy W. Dean Writers Grant, WriteMovies, Sloan, Screenplay Festival, ScriptRep, AFP, Great Lakes, and Indieproducer national contests; 2004, 2003 or 2002 semi-finalist in the Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting (2X), Scriptapalooza (2008), WriteMovies, Carl Sautter Memorial, National Screenwriting, American Accolades, 20/20, Anything But Hollywood, and Writer’s Network Screenplay Competitions; 2004 quarterfinalist in the Austin Film Festival, FilmMakers Magazine/ Radmin, Screenwriting Expo, American Screenwriting, and International Screenwriting Awards competitions; and 2003/2004 honorable mention in Cinequest and A Feeding Frenzy. Also placed scripts in the top 10% of the 2002 and 2003 Nicholl Fellowships.

· Wrote and co-produced the short film, Irrational Expansion, for the UCLA TFT Festival. 2004

TELEVISION PROJECTS:
· Co-developed and wrote the pilot episode of Samurai Tourist, a half hour syndicated comedy series, with Jed Nolan and Meeting Point Productions of Tokyo, Japan. Targeted for Japanese and U. S. markets. 2004

· Adapted story for a MOW, Journey of the Heart, from the novel Set for Life by Judith Freeman, at The Late Bloomer Co., Ltd., Burbank. Targeted for Andy Griffith. 1993

· Placed as a finalist in the Warner Brothers 1999 Comedy Writing Workshop, as a semi-finalist in the 2002 Scriptapalooza and Acclaim Television Script Competitions, and as a quarter-finalist in the 2004 Austin Film Festival Prime Time Competition.

· Produced Gloria Estefan and Celine Dion concerts on DVDs for Sony Pictures Entertainment. 1997

· Wrote concept, pitch, and pages of Hard Ball, a one-hour FBI procedural series set in the world of pro sports. Targeted for FX Network. 2004

· Wrote concepts for 2 live action animal sitcoms with Paul Shomer, writer and Script Supervisor at South Park. Targeted for Fox 2000. 1997

· Wrote feature and television concepts, Joseph’s Gift, Real Life Miracles, Testimony, UFOz, with Jed Nolan, Executive V. P. of Development at Alpine Pictures Studios, Burbank, CA. 1996

· Co-developed, wrote and exec-produced comedy series, Erotic Studios, Playboy TV. 1993

· Wrote 1-hour concept & MOW story, The Last Stand, for James Earl Jones. 1993

· Wrote story for several episodes of the after-school teen cable series, A Party Called Earth, developed by Jed Nolan at Cook/Nolan Films, Los Angeles, CA. 1992

· Wrote spec television scripts for: Smallville, 6 Feet Under, Millennium, Frasier, Drew Carey, King of the Hill, a 2-part South Park, and two long forms: Just Keep Ridin’, and Come On, Let’s Go. 1997 - 2003

· Owned and managed a film/video production company and post facility in the NYC area, Creative Development Associates/Falcon Productions. Created, wrote & produced local/regional commercials, and corporate/industrial films/TV. Won a “Golden Reel” industry award for the corporate video, Just Like a Friend, cast with top NYC theatre and “soaps” talent. 1979 - 1988

· Created, wrote and produced a nationally syndicated health information show, Health Watch, featuring the CBS New York broadcaster, Dr. Frank Fields. 1976

· Created, wrote and produced AIDS - the Facts of Life for PBS. 1986

· Wrote and produced commercials for the Blessing/White Agency in NYC/Philadelphia markets. 1989 -1990

EDUCATION AND TRAINING:
· March ’06 Pro-series screenwriter training with Hal Croasman, Los Angeles, CA.

· June ’05 graduate of UCLA’s MFA Screenwriting Program.

· 2005 recipient of the United Talent Agency Fellowship in Screenwriting.

· June ’01 graduate of UCLA’s Advanced Professional Program in Screenwriting.

· June ’89 graduate of AFI’s Screenwriting Course of Study.

· Mastered the basics of Screenwriting in such industry classes as Jim Bonnet’s “Storymaking, The Master Class;” Jeff Kitchen’s “Master Class in Structure and Logic;” Bob McKee’s “Story,” “Horror,” “Thriller,” and “Comedy;” David Freeman’s “Beyond Structure;” John Truby’s “Creating Plots and Character,” “Advanced ScreenWriting,” “Writing a Block Buster,” and “Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy;” Linda Seger’s “Making a Good Script Great” and “Creating Unforgettable Characters;” Richard Walter’s “Screenwriting: the Basics,” and “Screenwriting: the Whole Story;” Chris Vogler’s “Creating Powerful Stories;” and Bill Martel’s “Script Secrets” seminar. 1996 - 2002

· Wrote plays and studied under Jim Kennedy, award winning Los Angeles playwright, at the Epic Theatre Company, Burbank, CA. 1992

· Studied, wrote and performed improv and sketch comedy at the Groundlings, and with the Los Angeles-based improv group, War Babies. 1992 - 1993

· Earned a Master’s in Education 1971, and a Bachelor’s in Psychology 1966, at the University of Pittsburgh.