Introduce Yourself : Arthouse horror and dark comedy screenwriter! by Matthew Ballen

Matthew Ballen

Arthouse horror and dark comedy screenwriter!

Hi, I'm Matthew — a screenwriter who just left Brooklyn to live upstate.

I've written a horror movie for Warner Bros, a dramedy for an Academy Award-winning producer, and produced a lot of satire videos for the Onion. Still feel like a perpetual beginner though, and I'm currently enjoying two of Stage 32's intensives: horror TV writing and feature producing.

Would love to meet fellow arthouse peeps interested in dramedy, horror, dark comedy, dark drama, etc. Last great movie I saw was PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN. Was skeptical of it getting 5 Oscar nods just because I like PWB's first season of Killing Eve so much better but dang. It was perfect.

Rutger Oosterhoff

Would like a script doctor for a holocaust story, for finding weak points other script doctors did not see. Best, Rutger

Matthew Ballen

Hey Rutger. Would love to chat. I actually wrote a holocaust-adjacent project for producer Arthur Cohn whose won a handful of Oscars (One Day In September, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis) and have done a lot research into Nazi-era Germany from the early 30's on. Feel free to send me a private message with more details and we can discuss if you'd like.

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