Joel Eisenberg here, the President of Eisenberg Media Group, Inc. and Topos Books (www.toposbooks.com). I am an entrepreneur, filmmaker and author, and former Director of the annual San Diego Film Festival Screenplay Contest (www.sdff.org).I have been writing professionally since 1986 in varied media, starting as a columnist for a series of national sports-entertainment periodicals (yup, pro wrestling!), and segueing to independent feature film assignments. I have written or co-written several full-length screenplays, many on assignment or optioned from spec, sold or produced, including the multi-award-winning drama “Out of the Black,†starring Oscar nominee Sally Kirkland, Tyler Christopher, Sally Struthers and Dee Wallace Stone.I have written over thirty commercial media spots through advertising agency Image Display Group, for such clients as “McDonald’s,†and have also worked in production finance, raising development funds for teen features including “The Dark Mist,†narrated by Charlton Heston, and “Lancelot: Guardian of Time.†I have successfully marketed various projects to Public Television supporters for several million dollars in national and local program funding, including "California's Gold" with Huell Howser, "American Playhouse," Masterpiece Theater" and "Puzzle Placeâ€.In October 2003, I formed Eisenberg Media Group, Inc. and Topos Books as ventures to further my media and publishing interests. In August 2005, a new series of interview-based self-help tomes commenced with the publication of “How To Survive a Day Job While Pursuing the Creative Life.†The first volume includes contributions from best-selling novelists Clive Barker, Stephen King, Brad Meltzer, Laurell Hamilton, Richard Paul Evans, Douglas Preston, Andrei Codrescu, Jonathan Kirsch, Thomas Perry, Carolyn See, Lisa See, Father Andrew Greeley, Alan Dean Foster, Stuart Woods and Kelly Lange, President of CBS Entertainment Nancy Tellum, actors Sir Ian McKellen, Tom Cruise, Sally Kirkland, Dee Wallace Stone, Elya Baskin, Robert Hayes and David Hess, TV icons Jamie Farr, Wink Martindale, Mike Conners and Larry Hagman, producers Stephen J. Cannell, Bob Kosberg, Bob Kiviat, Gene Perret and Russ Streiner, director Robert Wise, ESPN commentator Bill Pidto and former World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Larry Holmes.Why did I do it? Sick of working a hundred unrelated day jobs in between films, during the lean times.In 2006, I engaged in a new business venture, The All Cities Library, with Eric Shaw of New York Credit, Inc., to create books for companies looking to expose their business on a national level. In May of 2007, I was fortunate to receive a great deal of press for discovering, identifying, organizing and salvaging a heretofore considered "lost" John Steinbeck archive of over 500 handwritten and typed pages, including unpublished material.Definitely not something that happens to me every day.
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