Talent Guide

Jonathan Hludzinski

  • Discipline:Director, Writer
  • Program Year:Directing Lab 2009, Screenwriting Lab 2008

Bio

Jonathan V. Hludzinski attended Columbia University Graduate Film School for screenwriting, during which he produced the digital video feature film American Saint with Michael Hausman (Amadeus, Gangs of New York). Jonathan then won the Chesterfield Writer’s Film Project Fellowship, which included a first look deal with Paramount. In 2006 he sold his pilot Almost Dead to NBC through Dick Wolf’s Wolf Films. In February of last year, in Tanzania, Africa, he produced a commercial shoot for cell phone carrier Zain International. Jonathan is currently working for director Walt Becker, developing comedy projects for his banner. He is also currently in negotiations with the Starz network to sell his pilot script Love, co-written with David Feinberg. Director Alison Eastwood and actor Billy Bob Thornton are attached to his feature script An Honest Man, with an eye to go into production this summer. At the moment his agent Robert Lazar at ICM, manager Bryan Brucks, and producer Marc Berliner of Bad Hat Harry are looking for a director attachment for his script Minotaur, and will soon be shopping it to studios.

Current Project

Close to Me (Narrative Feature)

Logline

When his wife tragically dies, high school teacher Gill Withers and a teenage student, who knew his wife better than he did, find comfort in each other.