Kanbar Institute of Film & Television

Ezra M. Sacks Associate Arts Professor, Executive Director of Writing Studies Phone: 212 998 1529 Email: es21@nyu.edu Office: 721 Broadway Room 1100 Office Hours: Monday 12:30PM - 1:30PM & 5PM - 6PM; Tuesday, 1PM - 5PM

Courses

Advanced Production, Developing the Screenplay, Storytelling Strategies

Biography

Ezra Sacks has been a screenwriter and teacher for over twenty
years.  Among his many screenwriting credits are "FM" (a Grammy
Award winner), "A Small Circle of Friends (Brad Davis and Karen
Allen), and "Wildcats" (Goldie Hawn, Woody Harrelson and Wesley
Snipes).  Mr. Sacks has written for many prominent directors and
producers, including Robert Zemeckis, Ivan Reitman, Chris Columbus,
Rob Cohen, Jon Avnet, Herbert Ross, Jack Rapke, Reba McEntire, and
Jose Padilha. Most recently he worked on "Trope de Elite" ("Elite Squad"),
winner of the Golden Bear at the 2008 Berlin Film Festival.  Mr. Sacks
currently teaches at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in the
Undergraduate Film and Television Program.  In the past he has taught
screenwriting and filmmaking at The University of California at Irvine,
and Columbia University Graduate School in New York.  He is a member of
the Writers Guild of America.