JAMES FALLON
Screenwriter/Actor/ Producer - WLB Services
PO Box 2272 High Wycombe WA 6057
mobile: 0427 974 724
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WORK EXPERIENCE
ACTING SCHOOL - UNLIMITED EXPRESSIONS (1988 - 1990)
Received Acting Training with Josephine Lewis in Sydney NSW
Experience:
In 2 years studied; voice, mime, improvisation, creative writing and theatre production. After completion graduates put on a show at the “Fig Tree Theatre” in the grounds of NSW University in Kensington, Sydney.
The show was a success with a full house. I co-wrote and acted in 3 productions, including a musical send up.
ACTING WORK - SUBURBAN THEATRE (1990 – 1994)
Acted in various theatres around Sydney’s Eastern and Inner Western Suburbs including; Hunters Hill, Pagewood and Rozelle.
Experience:
Highlights included; “Separate Tables” and playing a double lead role in Hunters Hill production of “The Lemon Tree. Lead role in “The Summer of the 17th Doll” at Pagewood Theatre and various other roles.
SYDNEY NEW VIDEO FESTIVAL (1996-1999)
Co- Director
Experience:
Over this 4 year period I was Co-Director with my partner of the Sydney New Video Festival. Here we managed all aspects of this exciting short film festival hosted over various venues in Sydney Australia. The brief was short films of any length under 20 minutes that were less than 2 years old and had not been produced by major production companies and funding body. The competition was open to a number of categories including; animation, drama, comedy and original music and film.
PRODUCED 3 FILMS (1996-2002)
Writer/Producer & Director
Experience:
Between 1996 and 2002, I wrote produced and co-directed 3 films including two short films and one feature film. These include; “The Other Side” a short film based around the sudden disappearance of a business man and an investigation that is less than orthodox, “Look what the cat dragged in”, a short comedy with a number of eccentric characters based around a “hen picked” retiree husband and his daydreaming and a feature film called “In the Cold”; a young country man moves to the city to pursue a music career and unbeknown finds himself as a drug mule.
SCREENWRITING (2005 – 2014)
Screenwriter
Experience:
Wrote the screenplay feature “Done Deal” The screenplay “Done Deal” is a story based on a fictitious Real Estate Firm in a small coastal village. The play is centred on Bob Dawson (the primary protagonist); a middle aged “sleazy agent” with a mantra of “whatever it takes” to get the deal done. The firm is owned by a 40 something, good looking, businessman with a passion for horses and women. He leaves Bob to run the firm basically unchecked and under his stewardship the other agents in the firm have compromised their values in a game of survival against the opposing agent.
Unique traits: Ability to work with all people. Able to produce creative work on small budgets.
Done Deal Drama Bob Dawson; a middle-aged sleazy but loveable real estate agent with a mantra of "whatever it takes", hooks up with crooked mayor in a seaside town to secure prized land at less than market value. Young college graduate with high ideals joins the firm and is shocked by the dirty tricks and finally joins the opposing agent to bring the "main deal" down and Bob with it. However Bob has more tricks up his sleeve and lives another day.