Curriculum Vitae - Sebastian Corbascio

Experience

Award-winning screenwriter:

Hollywood Gateway Screenwriting Competition 2003 "Sarah Luger"

Austin Film Festival Heart of Film Screenwriting Competition 2004 Second Round "The Sicilian Clans"

Screenwriting & Journalism:

Has written seven full-length screenplays.

Has written, produced, directed and edited one documentary and two shorts.

Wrote the column "Screen Unseen," for Maenades.com; a column dedicated to reviewing and championing little-seen films.

Screenplays

(All Feature-length)

"eyesight to the blind": 1995 The lives of a young self-destructive jazz musician and four of his friends.

"Spare Change": 1997 Chronicles the life Bobby O'Reilly, a man who is unsatisfied by life as a mailroom
supervisor, falls in love at first sight with a woman in an elevator.

"We Are The Dead": 1998 A young journalist falls in love while covering the Zapatista Uprising
in Southern Mexico.

"Palomino": 1999 A young rogue assassin and an FBI agent pair to find the murderers of a U.S. Senator.

"Sarah Luger": 2000 The murder of a popular high school student in a wealthy community may be the perfect crime.

"The Sicilian Clans": 2001 The rise and fall of an ambitious Kansas City Mafia boss who strikes a deal
with the Sicilian Cosa Nostra.

"Tarantella": 2004 The oddyssey of one mafioisi's rise to power in the most turbulent decades in
American history.

"Samiyan": 2004 Organized crime and nuclear terror in the Middle East.

Journalism

(Titles reviewed for "Screen Unseen" column in Maenades.com, a feminist culture magazine.)

"Prince: Sign 'O' The Times"

"Panic In Needle Park."

"Fallen Champ: the Rise and Fall of Mike Tyson."

"The Choclate War."

"Pusher."

Films

(Wrote, Produced, Directed)

"The Wedding Album" : 1996 45 mins, documentary (video) The story of two families: one Cuban, one
Jewish, one conservative and the other liberal, coming together through marriage.

"Alex Shlomo is Late To The Airport": 1992 16 mins, short (16mm) The adventures of a business man
trying desperately to make his flight on time and the sister, ex-roomate and the taxi driver who stand in his way.

"The Altering Eye": 1991 30 mins, short (8mm sound) A strapping fellow finally gets to meet his crush on the pretext of buying a text book.

EDUCATION:

BA in English, emphasis in Creative Writing, San Francisco State University, 1992

References Available Upon Request