Jeff Bollow

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Jeff Bollow (born September 25, 1971 in Santa Monica, California) is an actor, writer, director, producer, author, public speaker, and film festival organizer. In 1996, after ten years of moderate success as an actor in his native Los Angeles, Bollow migrated to New Zealand, and then to Australia, where he founded the Screenplay Development Centre, authored the book Writing FAST: How to Write Anything with Lightning Speed, and produced and directed Making Fantastic Short Films for schools, before returning to New Zealand to co-found the Big Mountain Short Film Festival.

Career history

Bollow began acting as a teenager, appearing in dozens of film, television, stage, and commercial productions, including Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead, Ann Jillian, Columbo, Pink Lightning and Gabriel's Fire, as well as television commercials for Kellogg's Pop-Tarts, Doritos, Visa Card, and several others.

During this time, he also did a wide assortment of production work for companies such as Universal Pictures, Roger Corman's Concorde/New Horizons, and several music video companies, before making his own short films, including the IFC New Filmmaker Award-winning 1995 short "The Duel".

In 1996, Bollow moved to New Zealand, where he continued acting, with minor appearances in Shortland Street, Lost Valley, Young Hercules (as an ADR actor), and several others. While in New Zealand, he wrote 6,000 Miles from Hollywood, an independent feature film project co-produced with Billy Milionis in Sydney on a shoestring budget, a project which was abandoned in post-production after seven years.

Despite the lack of success in his own feature film writing, Bollow began teaching screenwriting workshops. He created the Screenplay Development Centre and offered workshops and seminars throughout Australia, New Zealand and internationally.

In 2004, Bollow designed a systematic approach to the writing process he dubbed "the F.A.S.T. System", an acronym for Focus, Apply, Strengthen, Tweak. He authored a book called Writing FAST: How to Write Anything with Lightning Speed, which was briefly an Amazon.com bestseller in May 2005.

Despite his systematic approach to the writing process, he has not written any other books.^[1]

In 2006, he produced and directed an acclaimed educational DVD for primary and secondary schools called Making Fantastic Short Films.

Bollow is co-founder of the Big Mountain Short Film Festival, held in Ohakune, New Zealand in October 2006.

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