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Paul Chitlik
Current Mentor of The Screenwriting Sensei; past mentor of Italy Screenwriting Retreats
Paul has written for all the major networks and studios in English and in Spanish. He was story editor for MGM/UA’S The New Twilight Zone, and staff writer for Showtime’s sitcom Brothers. He has written features for Rysher Entertainment, NuImage, Promark, Mainline Releasing, and others. He has directed episodes and been coordinating producer for Real Stories of the Highway Patrol and U.S. Customs Classified. He wrote and produced Alien Abduction, the first network movie shot on digital video for UPN. He wrote, produced, and directed Ringling Brothers Revealed, a special for The Travel Channel. (He had been a roustabout for Circus Vargas years earlier.) Most recently he wrote, produced and directed The Wedding Dress, for Amazon Prime.
Paul received a Writers Guild of America award nomination for his work on The Twilight Zone and a GLAAD Media Award nomination for Los Beltrán, a Telemundo show. He won a Genesis Award for a Showtime Family movie. He has taught in the MFA programs of UCLA, the University of Barcelona’s film school ESCAC, Cuba’s film school EICTV, Chile’s film school UNIACC, The University of Zulia in Venezuela, The Panamerican University in Mexico City, The Story Academy of Sweden and as a clinical associate professor at Loyola Marymount University. Now Paul is writing full time again and living near his grandson in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, with his wife, television producer Beth McCauley. His book, Rewrite, is used in film schools around the world (in English, Chinese, and Korean). His latest novel is Lies, All Lies, and his next book on screenwriting, The Screenwriting Sensei, will be published by MWP in the fall of 2025.