M.d Tabish Faraz

An experienced and published writer, research lover, natural hard worker, proven result oriented and earnestly ambitious professional. He has a passion for telling stories uniquely & excitingly in script form. Has worked closely with a couple of independent Hollywood producers.

Writing Trainings:

He is known as a skilled screenwriter who is qualified from online version of Hollywood. He has completed the "Intermediate of Screenwriting" course & the "7-part Screenwriting Masters Course" by Writer/Producer/Actor and Writers Guild of America member Nick Dunning.

"Because of my training for writing great screenplays, I can write Film & TV scripts adeptly in their proper Hollywood formats, structures and standards."
-- M.d Tabish Faraz

"To make a great movie, you need just three things: a great script, a great script, and a great script."
-- Alfred Hitchcock

Experiences:

June 2006 – March 2007, Binary Vibes
Content Writer
Responsibilities were to write content for the company’s inventory websites. Worked for over 50 different websites from scratch.

31st Jan – 14th March 2005, Tastee Films, UK
Screenwriter
Wrote interview scripts for a celebrity interview program series for the company after a thorough professional research on each celebrity.

Oct 2002 – Sept 2004 Sysmic Productions, Los Angeles, USA
Assistant International & In Charge Pakistan Team
Was responsible for finding highly motivated translators of world’s most spoken languages and getting them interested in our first feature film project to work voluntarily to translate the project’s website into their languages of expertise. Responsibilities as In Charge Pakistan Team include guiding Urdu and Punjabi translators in accomplishing accurate translations and when the project would be ready to release, getting the Pakistani film distributors interested in the project.

23rd Jun - 7th Sep 2002, Letters to America, New York, USA
Assistant Director
Assisted Mrs. Erica Geller, the director of “Letters to America”, an International book project. Responsibilities were to get Pakistani common people’s opinions about America and transform & translate them into letters and send to the director.

Oct 2002 - Jan 2004, National Engineering & Computer Research Laboratories (NECRL), Karachi.
1) System Support Professional
Responsible for maintaining and troubleshooting branded HP Computer Systems at both software and hardware levels.
2) Promoted to Network Administrator just within a month!
Responsibilities were to manage and troubleshoot the computer network. The company’s major clients include Jinnah Terminal International Airport and Korangi Creek Telephone Exchange.
3) Copywriter
Wrote all marketing brochures for Terasoft Communications, a daughter company of NECRL.

Professional Achievements:
- Got the decidedly competent translators of
world’s most spoken languages contracted to
work for free for Sysmic Productions, Los
Angeles, while working as Assistant
International for the company.
- Promoted to Network Administrator within a
month in National Engineering and Computer
Research Laboratories (NECRL).
- He has earned Expert Author Status on Ezinearticles.com

Writing Skills:

"I have studied “How to build a great screenplay” a book rather a master class in storytelling for film by David Howard, the founding director of the graduate screenwriting program at University of Southern California. Some of his students have written such successful Hollywood films as “Air Force One”, “Chicken Run”, “End of Days”, “Sweet Home Alabama” amongst other star cast Hollywood flicks. I can utilize the screenwriting exercises discussed in details in the book in relation to the proper & highly effective structuring of scenes, dialogues and overall screenplays."
-- M.d Tabish Faraz

"I have also studied loads of Urdu and English articles and screenplays of Hollywood movies and American TV dramas, sitcoms, theatre, shows, etc. Hence, I can write scripts using the format and structure of International standard screenplays and can write articles of national as well as of International importance."
-- M.d Tabish Faraz


“Read screenplays in the genre you like."
"In fact, you can learn more from bad films and screenplays than from good ones."
-- Robert McKee
World's best known screenwriting coach whose students have gone on to become the writers, directors, and producers of hundreds of hit films, Forest Gumb, Erin Brockovich, Gandhi to name a few, and the winners of the prestigious awards like Academy Awards, Emmy Awards, Writers Guild Awards, and Directors Guild of America Awards. Major corporations including Microsoft regularly send their entire creative staffs to McKee's lectures.

"I began teaching based on my experience as a reader of screenplays"
"So I believe that new writers should read screenplays, see movies, and also read novels, and notice the similarities between the visualized dynamics of the storyline, and what they want to do in terms of the screenplay."
-- Syd Field
Acclaimed as "the guru of all screenwriters" (CNN), Field is currently on faculty at the USC Master's of Professional Writing Program, has taught at Harvard, Stanford, UC Berkeley, UCLA, the AFI and many other noted institutions. He has been a special script consultant to 20th Century Fox, the Disney Studios, Universal and Tristar Pictures. He is a creative screenwriting consultant to the governments of Austria, Argentina, Brazil, Germany, Mexico, and Norway.

Available to work as:
1) Freelance Screenwriter
2) Freelance Researcher
3) Freelance Web Content Writer including article writing
4) Freelance Concept & Copy Writer
5) Freelance Translator (English-Urdu-English)
6) Reporter

Memberships and Achievements:

-- He is listed as a writer in Mandy’s International Television and Film production directory (www.mandy.com). His webpage address at mandy.com is: http://www.mandy.com/home.cfm?c=faa012

-- He had got Renting EyeBalls Films (www.rentingeyeballs.com) interested in a still to be finished feature length spec screenplay of his. They, through Real Creative Worldwide (www.realcreatives.com), as they claimed, supplied individually and/or organized into production teams John Woo for “Face Off”, “Mission Impossible 2” and “Nike World Cup”, M. Night Shayamalan for “Sixth Sense” and “Signs” amongst various other hotcakes (see the crew section of the English version of www.hamartia.com (currently down for reconstruction) for his photo and a short bio stating all these information).
"I was not able to complete the script due to security reasons, which prevented me from touring some countries like Iraq and Afghanistan for the script research, which was vital for the script completion."
-- M.d Tabish Faraz

-- He is also the member of the Industry Only section of www.ifilmpro.com, the website that gives its membership only to the working Hollywood professionals. His I.D with them is: 1500930.

-- He is also registered with UK’s Talent Circle. Visit his webpage with them at: www.talentcircle.co.uk/profile/mdtabish.

-- Pakistan Film Producers Association recently issued a leaflet about him as a writer who got the training for writing films from Hollywood.

Here is what some film professionals have to say about M.d Tabish Faraz:

"Because of your background, you could write interesting stories about American paranoia towards innoncent people just because they look middleastern."
-- Ricardo Islas
President,
Alpha Studios, South America

"Your fees are reasonable."
-- Bilal Hasan Minto
Son of the famous sub-continent writer Saadat Hasan Minto and the business partner of film & TV celebrity Faisal Rehman.

M.d Tabish Faraz can be reached at: pro.screenwriter@gmail.com

Interests: 1) Keep Practicing Screenwriting Everyday, 2) Keep Practicing Screenwriting Everyday, and 3) Keep Practicing Screenwriting Everyday.

Published writer: Yes

Freelance: Yes