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NCWA Founder and Managing Director of Short Stories, Novels/Novellas, and Poetry. Jason is well acquainted with the worlds of publishing and movie making, both as a writer, editor, small press publisher, and film producer. Jason's personal Web site. He has both produced and executive produced several short films including People Kill People and The Eminence of Tyrone Wheeler for business partner Mike Timm, and Will Keenan’s directorial debut film Hoofboy. To produce Hoofboy, Jason teamed Keenan (lead actor in Troma Picture’s Tromeo and Juliet and Good Machine’s Love God) and William Miller (Director of Photography of two previous Academy Award nominated films in the experimental short film category) using 35mm, 16mm and 5 video formats. Jason has written and published poetry, articles and short fiction in Amazing Stories, Weird Tales, Byline Magazine, SUN, The Hollywood Scriptwriter, short story anthologies, and other markets. In 2007 Jason's children's picture storybook, THE GROWING SWEATER, appeared as the lead story in the Expectations anthology of children's literature as published by Braille Institute. After winning first place and a Society of Children's Writer's and Illustrators contest and placing in the top five of a Tassy Walden Awards New Voices in Children's Literature contest, THE GROWING SWEATER will finally appear as a standalone picture in 2012. In November 2011 Jason's first picture storybook, THE LEGEND OF HOBBOMOCK: THE SLEEPING GIANT, illustrated by Jesse J. Bonelli, will arrive in bookstores and on-line retailers. Additionally, in 2008 and 2009 Jason was awarded two second place and one honorable mention certificate for Excellence in Journalism by the Connecticut Society of Professional Journalists. After earning a double-major Bachelor of Science degree from Northeastern University in Geology and English, Jason spent two years writing feature articles for The Citizen, a weekly Connecticut newspaper, before devoting his energies to writing, editing, and developing content for 17 college text books for educational text book publisher McGraw-Hill/Dushkin. In February 1997 Jason founded the highly successful New Century Writer Awards, a not-for-profit writing competition and educational organization designed to connect undiscovered writers with top film industry producers, directors and agents, and publishing industry editors. In its first year New Century Writer LLC (the operating company of the New Century Writer Awards) received 1500 entries and, with business partner Mike Timm, garnered the support of Francis Ford Coppola’s Zoetrope All Story magazine and American Zoetrope film company. Marchi writes... "The idea for the New Century Writer Awards® first came about in 1992, when I became frustrated by how few opportunities there were for writers. I wanted to bring to Connecticut a film writing competition that would help put Connecticut on the map for helping both writers and filmmakers. Five years later, with the advent of Film Fest New Haven to act as the "home base" of the writing competition, New Century Writer made its public debut. Since I write fiction, scripts and plays -- and each of these has a history of being the birthplace of good film -- it was only natural that New Century Writer should be structured to provide opportunities for writers of all three forms of story telling."
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