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Thomas Schlesinger Thomas Schlesinger is a writer, teacher and consultant who has worked internationally for the last twenty years. He was the story consultant on Nowhere in Africa, which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, and Beyond Silence, nominated for an Academy Award. Thomas was also the story consultant on the HBO documentaries Prom Night in Mississippi, with Morgan Freeman, and the Emmy-nominated, A Small Act. He is currently working as a story consultant on the The Night Trilogies with M. Night Shyamalan.

As a story consultant, Thomas’s clients have included Star Wars producer Robert Watts, Golden Girls Executive Producer Marc Sotkin, Bonded Parallels Filmmaker Hovhannes Galystyan, Francis Coppola’s Zoetrope Studios, Miramax, Universal Studios, Columbia Pictures, Constantin Film Production, X-Filme, TV-60 and numerous international studios and broadcasters.

Thomas has taught screenwriting seminars for Pixar Animation Studios, Lucasfilm Ltd., the American Film Institute, the Writers Guild of America, the Directors Guild of America, and the National Film Schools in Berlin and Munich.

Thomas co-created The Stranger, a mythic, action-adventure television, series for Moroccan television, which will be broadcast next October. And he wrote the feature film Red Dune, which will be shot next year near Laayoune, Morocco.

Thomas facilitates Human Potential seminars including Art as Transformation at UCLA, Myths, Dreams and Movies at the Esalen Institute, the Saybrook Institute and The California Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, and Creative Flow: the Inner Reaches of Outer Space, at the Academy of Art in Munich.

Here is what Thomas’s clients have to say about him at www.writingfilms.com

Thomas’s extraordinary guidance – with character always in the forefront – enriches my screenplays immensely. Caroline Link, writer-director Nowhere in Africa (Academy Award winner, Best Foreign Film) Beyond Silence (Academy Award nominee, Best Foreign Film)

Thomas has a very unique approach to story and I'm extremely grateful to have had his guidance. Jennifer Arnold, writer-director A Small Act (2011 Emmy Nomination, Sundance Jury Prize nominee)

Thomas has the amazing ability to guide writers to a place of enhanced creativity. Michael Lehmann, director True Blood

Thomas’s wisdom, inspiration, and deep understanding of character and story continue to guide me on each screenwriting journey. Pamela Gray, screenwriter Conviction, A Walk on the Moon

Thomas has a keen sense of the ‘big picture.’ His insight allowed us to envision structure and effective character arcs in the early stages of development -- important assets in creating a great screenplay. Ashwin Rajan, President of Production The Night Chronicles

Thomas helped me focus on possibilities instead of limitations, providing the constructive creative guidance that allowed the project to come together in an organic manner. His qualities as a guide cannot be valued enough, not to mention that he is a great guy, and tremendous fun to work with! Reto Caffi, writer-director On the Line (Academy Award Nominee, Best Short Film) Articles: San Francisco Chronicle 26/3/2003 by:Leah Garchik "And the Memories Go To..." http://landspiegel.de/deitschland-reise/coach-der-traumfabrik-interview-mit-tom-schlesinger www.writingfilms.com www.imdb.com/name/nm0772296/