| JONAS
SCHWARTZ Jonas Schwartz is a syndicated film columnist and a founding
board member of the International Press Academy. He chairs
several voting boards, particularly the Satellite Awards
DVD and Television nominating committees. His reviews have
been carried by an array of publications including Comcast
Cable, Lord of the Rings Fan Site (which surprisingly spotlighted
a negative review of the first Lord of the Rings) and The
Drudge Report.
For two years, he’s been the Los Angeles Columnist
for the New York based Theatermania.com, reviewing, among
others, the Pulitzer Prize winner “Anna In The Tropics” at
Costa Mesa Rep and the Los Angeles Opera Company’s
presentation of “A Little Night Music.”
For six years, he has worked at The Walt Disney Studios
in Burbank, California. He worked closely with the creative
teams responsible for Pirates of the Caribbean, Sixth Sense
and Princess Diaries.
In 2001, he joined Bryan Cooper at Malvern Productions.
They developed several television proposals that combine
their passion for film with the popularity of Reality TV
programming.
Jonas is also working on a novel about a girl who falls
in love with a man over the Internet. Catastrophe results
when she ignores the dangerous implications of taking the
written word as purer than the intentions of its manipulative
author. Rather than a crime thriller, the book focuses
on how a woman can take tragic situations and grow beyond
them.
Jonas graduated from University of Southern California
with a major in Broadcast Journalism and a minor in Film
Criticism.
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