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Jonathan Herrick is an upbeat, rom-com and true-story screenwriter whose years of inner and outer journeys inform his passion for movies about love’s challenges and personal transformation.
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THE SIX
In Development….
A COMING-OF-AGE ROMANTIC COMEDY
In the early 1960s, six teenage friends dive into sexual adventure, rock ‘n roll, unmitigated disaster, spectacular success, loss, and love.
Bursting with music and dance, the characters age from 11 to 17. Their story, loosely based on the writer’s adolescence, exists in outline form.
RADIANCE
Work-In-Process….
Inspired by the author’s personal experience and by Buddhist and Sufi wisdom tales, the script will be adapted from the screenwriter’s WIP novel.
A COMING-OF-AGE FANTASY ADVENTURE
After losing his only parent, a 17-year-old encounters a sorcerer with dark magical powers, falls in love with a young female wizard, and embarks on the most challenging of spiritual journeys.
Inspired by the author’s personal experience and by Buddhist and Sufi wisdom tales, the script will be adapted from the screenwriter’s unpublished novel.
LAST CHANCE
In Development….
A ROMCOM POLITICAL THRILLER
To help topple a rogue U.S. president, a couple masterminds a multii-billion-dollar art heist, then crisscross the continent to escape his hitmen.
The screenwriter’s sister and brother-in-law, respected political operatives, are consultants on this project, which exists in synopsis form. It Happened One Night meets V for Vendetta.
Biography
Jonathan Herrick is an upbeat, rom-com and true story screenwriter dividing his time between Martha’s Vineyard and Vietnam. Spending decades practicing Zen and Tibetan Buddhist meditation, while training with some of the world’s foremost masters and psychotherapy mentors, he has enjoyed a successful psychotherapy practice counseling people on how to transform themselves and their relationships. His clients include cops, CEOs, movie stars, and a CIA assassin’s wife.
Inner and outer journeys inform his passion for stories about love’s challenges and personal transformation. His encounter with a child abandoned in the Himalayas inspired The Girl on the Roof of the World: A True Story. After the spirited six‑year‑old’s stepmother tries to murder her, she survives alone in the mountains until she meets an American family who adopt her. The family being Jonathan, his wife, and daughter.
The pleasures and misadventures of marriage and home-owning inspired his rom-com Rides. Over the course of one day, a family’s beloved Craftsman bungalow is unexpectedly lifted from its foundation and towed away, as the self-involved husband who sparked the comic chaos almost loses his family.
After receiving a B.A. from New York State University in “Zen and Cinema,” Jonathan attended USC’s Graduate School of Cinema Arts, obtained a master’s from New York University, and became the first writer for Family Feud. A semi-finalist in the Creative Screenwriting Unique Voices competition, he has seven projects on the boards.
Jonathan is represented by London attorney James Whitaker.
Jonathan Herrick
Screenwriter | Producer
Chilmark, MA 02535 | 415.722.9446 | IsittruefilmProductions@gmail.com
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