Neil Landau is an award-winning screenwriter, producer, author, and professor. His screen credits include the teen comedy Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead; Melrose Place, The Magnificent Seven, Doogie Howser, M.D., The Secret World of Alex Mack, Twice in a Lifetime, and MTV's Undressed. His animated movie projects include Tad: The Lost Explorer (aka Las Adventuras de Tadeo Jones) for which he earned a Spanish Academy “Goya” Award and Cinema Writers’ Circle Award for Best Adapted Screenplay (2014); and Tad2 (Tadeo Jones and the Secret of King Midas), from Paramount, which premiered in August, 2017 (once again to record box office). Neil is working on the Tad #3 for a summer, 2022 release by Paramount. He also co-wrote the Goya Award-winning animated feature Capture the Flag (also for Paramount); and the animated movie, Sheep & Wolves, for Wizart Animation (The Snow Queen), 2017. He’s currently Head Writer and Executive Producer on the new animated feature film Finnick for Riki Animation/Sola Media/Sony Pictures, and serving as Co-EP on Moomios for 4 Cats Pictures and Warner Bros. Both are currently in post-production for global 2022 releases. Neil’s new projects include the new animated feature Little Big Man or 4 Cats Pictures/A3/Artresmedia). Neil served as an Assistant Dean of Special Projects at UCLA School of Theater, Film & Television and Co-Director of UCLA’s MFA Screenwriting Program for many years. Currently, Neil is serving as Associate Professor at Grady College, and founding Director of Screenwriting in the new MFA Film & Television Program at the University of Georgia, where he also serves as chair of the pre-jury selection committee for the Creative category of the 2021-22 Peabody Awards. Neil is author of six books, including the bestselling 101 Things I Learned in Film School (Grand Central Publishing, 2010, just reissued by Random House/Crown, 2021). Neil served for several years as Executive Script Consultant in the international divisions of Sony Pictures Television and Columbia Pictures. He gives lectures, keynotes, and hosts workshops around the world on the art and craft of screenwriting, including keynotes in Copenhagen, Milan, Rome, Seoul, and Sochi. He has lectured at USC School of Cinematic Arts, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, La Femis in Paris, Met Film School in London, University of the Andes in Santiago, Alexander Mitta Film School in Moscow, Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Shanghai Film Art Academy, Starlight Media in Kiev, Accademia Nazionale del Cinema in Bologna, Italy, and more. He’s a member of the WGA West, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, PEN West, and sits on the Board of Directors for OUTFEST. He earned his BA in Film and Television at UCLA, and his MFA in Screenwriting at UGA’s Grady College of Journalism & Mass Communication. Please visit www.NeilLandau.com for news and updates.Neil Landau's top ten movies of all time:The Graduate American BeautyNetworkPaper MoonAnnie HallRosemary's BabyThe ApartmentCabaret Taxi DriverTootsieRead more about this authorRead less about this author