Jason Ginsburg

Producer and Screenwriter

New York City, New York

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August 2021

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About Jason

My spooky screenplay UNEXPLAINABLE was a top-3 comedy in the 2022 Final Draft's Big Break. It's also on Coverfly's Red List and is among the top 1% of 100,000 projects on that site. The script is now a semi-finalist in Emerging Screenwriters' Genre Screenplay contest. Contact me for more details.

My first produced screenplay, THE SORCERER BEAST, is available on Amazon. It stars Corey Feldman and Jeffrey Combs. I was retained to write three sequels, the first of which comes out in 2024.

I've written and produced web series for Science Channel, Animal Planet, Playboy, Paramount, CBS, and Home Shopping Network, and my work has aired on Comedy Central and Spike. I wrote and performed sketch comedy at Second City Hollywood and was a staff writer for the National Lampoon website. For 12 years, I ran @FakeThemePark, Twitter's longest-running comedy project.

My screenplay PONYTAIL was nominated for Best Screenplay in the Feel Good Film Festival and my comedy adventure TICKET TO MARS made a top ten finish in the AAA Screenwriting Contest. My historical war drama THE BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS also finished in the top ten of that contest and was recognized as the "Best First Five Pages of the Year."

Gender:
Male

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DRAGONS Budget: $10M - $30M | Action ⋄ Adventure On the verge of a court-martial, a corrupt army officer takes an international squad of other disgraced soldiers on a hunt for lost gold in the Carpathian Mountains. But when the group encounters an entire ecosystem of different dragons, he must atone for his past and become a true leader to get his team out alive.
WORKSPACE Budget: $0 - $100K | Comedy After getting fired from a comfortable corporate job, a spunky, snarky video-game designer reconnects with her spacey mother, who runs a co-working space in Manhattan. Surrounded by an oddball group of aspiring entrepreneurs, she struggles to keep the vengeful promise she made to her old boss: To release her own video game in one year.
UNEXPLAINABLE Budget: $1M - $5M | Horror ⋄ Comedy A cattle mutilation in a small town draws four paranormal investigators -- a Bigfoot hunter, a ghost hunter, a UFO hunter, and a neo-pagan witch -- who hate each other and think "their" monster is responsible, but they must put aside their differences when they discover the town hides even more secrets than expected.
GODDESSES Budget: $100K - $1M | Comedy After years of bickering, three sisters -- the flirty Goddess of Love, the nerdy Goddess of Knowledge, and the flaky Goddess of Arts -- are stripped of their powers and banished to present-day Earth to improve themselves, where a Millennial slacker also "banished" from home by his parents becomes their roommate and guide.
TICKET TO MARS Budget: $5M - $10M | Sci-fi ⋄ Comedy When a washed-up former astronaut is chosen by an eccentric billionaire to lead an oddball crew of contest winners on the first mission to Mars, his strict leadership clashes with their casual attitudes -- until NASA, envious of the popularity, beats them to Mars. But when the NASA mission gets stranded in space, the astronaut must lead his inexperienced crew to the rescue.
QUARTERBACK SNEAK Budget: $5M - $10M | Sports ⋄ Comedy On the verge of losing her scholarship, a shy, nerdy college girl agrees to play quarterback for her school's struggling football team as a publicity stunt, and she uses plays based on math, science, and history to turn the team into winners -- but struggles with the popularity that comes with success.
LEFT AT OLD THIEVES ROAD Budget: $10M - $30M | Action ⋄ Crime A small-time criminal drives his estranged and ailing father across New York State to a "gangster retirement community," but finds he must help his father tie up personal and professional loose ends along the way. (An authorized remake of the hit Russian black comedy)

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Credits

Antarctica (2019 - 2021)
Internet by Discovery Channel Associate Producer Short-form series for Discovery's streaming platforms about 3 friends trekking to the South Pole using only skis.
The Sorcerer Beast (2019)
Film by Fallout Productions / William L. Cox (Fantasy) Screenwriter An aimless daydreamer comes to power using the magic of the Sorcerer Beast- but the power comes with a terrible price.
Ask the Astronaut (2017)
Internet by Science Channel Producer Astronaut Mike Massimino answers questions about space travel and shares stories from this two Space Shuttle missions.
Tales of Tinder (2014)
Internet by Playboy Co-Writer, Co-Producer True horror stories from America's favorite dating app...re-enacted with puppets.
Faces of Beautiful You (2008 - 2009)
Internet by Home Shopping Network Co-Writer, Co-Producer Watch the work, friendship, and romantic adventures of three young, L.A. women while learning about the best HSN beauty products.

Awards

Top 10 Comedy finalist, Emerging Screenwriters Genre Screenplay Competition
(2023)
Top 3 Comedy finalist, Final Draft's Big Break
(2022)
George Lucas Selects Award, Best Star Wars Fan Film
(2008)