Max D. Adams is an American
screenwriter
A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based.
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and author. The winner of a Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting and an Austin Film Festival screenwriting award, Adams went on to be dubbed “Red Hot Adams” by Daily Variety.
Career
Adams has worked with
Columbia Pictures
Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an American film production studio that is a member of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, a division of Sony Pictures Entertainment, which is one of the Big Five studios and a subsidiary of the mu ...
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Hollywood Pictures
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,
Touchstone Pictures
Touchstone Pictures, Inc. was an American film production label of Walt Disney Studios, founded and owned by The Walt Disney Company. Feature films released under the Touchstone label were produced and financed by Walt Disney Studios, and featu ...
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Universal Pictures
Universal Pictures (legally Universal City Studios LLC, also known as Universal Studios, or simply Universal; common metonym: Uni, and formerly named Universal Film Manufacturing Company and Universal-International Pictures Inc.) is an Ameri ...
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Walt Disney Studios, and
TriStar Pictures
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, among several others. Her produced feature films include ''Excess Baggage'', ''The Ladykillers'', ''One For the Money'' and she appeared in
Tony Tarantino
Tony Tarantino (born July 4, 1940) is an American actor and producer. He is the father of filmmaker Quentin Tarantino.
Life and career
Tarantino was born in New York City, the son of Elizabeth Jean and Dominic James Tarantino, both of southern ...
's ''Underbelly Blues''.
Adams is also the founder of two international online screenwriting workshops, The Left Door and 5150, and is the author of ''The New Screenwriter's Survival Guide''. She is also a
University of Utah
The University of Utah (U of U, UofU, or simply The U) is a public research university in Salt Lake City, Utah. It is the flagship institution of the Utah System of Higher Education. The university was established in 1850 as the University of De ...
adjunct professor, is a former WGA online mentor, and is the founder of The Academy of Film Writing.
References
External links
See Max Run - Official Site*
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
American women screenwriters
American dramatists and playwrights
American self-help writers
University of Utah faculty
American women dramatists and playwrights
Screenwriting instructors
American women non-fiction writers
Screenwriters from Utah
American women academics
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