Nick Yeh

Screenwriter

Claremont, California

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About Nick

From audio, verbal to visual; from onstage storytelling, novel writing to script-writing, Nick has been a natural-born story teller since childhood. While his peers recited classics fairy tales, Nick already told stories he made up himself, and was able to attract a small circle of fans. He picked up the quill as early as age 10; by 12, growing up in the 1980s, he had begun writing a series of romance and adventure short stories inspired by Hollywood blockbusters.

At 13, Nick tried out script-writing when he, his cousin Lisa (now a medical doctor) and his sister Mindy (now a PhD in pharmaceutical sciences) formed a small radio drama group. Nick, Lisa and Mindy each assumed more than one role in the drama series. Nick eventually brought the passion with him to college, where he majored in English Literature. A heart-aching romance radio drama he wrote in college won the accolades of not only English Literature professors but also an award-winning director, who personally congratulated him on his good work. The director's encouragement drew Nick into screenwriting. Nick went on to pursue a Master's in Mental Health Counseling Psychology at Boston College and a PhD in Cultural Studies (Film Criticism, Film Marketing & Audience Psychology) at Claremont Graduate University.

At Claremont, Nick was fortunate enough to be mentored by producers Alexandra Juhasz and Ahmed Zahra, and one of his original short scripts was selected as a Finalist at the annual Lone Star Action Fest Screenplay Competition. His most recent films have been screened at numerous film festivals such as Cannes, Bonita Springs International Film Festival, Siouxland Film Festival, among a few others, and have collected a number of awards.

As a media scholar, Nick has published one article in The International Journal of the Humanities and presented numerous essays at a few international conferences.

As a result of a serious brain trauma at age 2, Nick was once aphasic and completely paralyzed on the right side of his body. He took up singing to retrieve his language ability and piano to reconstruct the movement of his right hand. Miraculously, his language ability caught up with his peers in 1 ½ years and he developed the ability of piano improvisation, which became his alternative channel for storytelling before his language ability was fully restored. The piano improvisation talent stays with him up to this day.

In his spare time, Nick loves travelling, in particular to seldom known territories. He has explored quite a few ghost towns and chronicled about the experiences. And he has been taking part in combat veteran and prisoner outreach programs.

Nick is fluent in both English and Chinese and translated a book about Chinese mental health in 2008.

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The One Action ⋄ Crime An innocent-looking taxi driver finds himself caught in a battle between two gangs after he comes to the rescue of one of the gangsters and comes out as the only one surviving the underground war with lots of take-home trophies and bonuses.
Gunter's List Action ⋄ Crime A secret agent tries to get back the agency's agent name list from a brutal counter-espionage mastermind, who wants to sell the list to the enemies and who turns out to be someone he's dying to meet his whole life.
Accident is Beautiful Comedy A sex offense victim advocate lawyer picks up a female sex offender on his way to court and ends up marrying her.
The 72 Hours Budget: $100K - $1M | Film-noir ⋄ Crime A mayor running for his second term is shot 72 hours before the election. To save his job, a police detective needs to identify the mastermind behind the shooting within 72 hours. Before cracking the complex case, he’s seen blackmail, murder, suicide of his partner and what appears to be rekindled love and triangular relationship…
Operation Terra Sol-3 Budget: $100K - $1M | Sci-fi ⋄ Adventure A Martian is sent to liberate Earthlings (people on Earth), who live under cruel dictatorship. He later learns that this inter-planetary political conflict in fact is a long buried family feud, where he has to kill his father to survive and exterminate his siblings to get what he wants.