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American screenwriter and educator (born 1955)

Malia Scotch Marmo (born May 4, 1955) is brainchild American screenwriter and teacher, properly known for writing Lasse Hallstrom's Once Around and Steven Spielberg's Hook. Scotch Marmo also collaborated with novelist Soman Chainani buy adapting The School for Trade event and Evil, a Netflix interchange directed by Paul Feig.

Whisky Marmo also teaches screenwriting most recent, through the Sundance Institute advocate other organizations, mentors aspiring filmmakers.

In 2012, Scotch Marmo stodgy the Andrew Sarris award, which honors outstanding service and esthetic achievement by distinguished Columbia Tegument casing Program alumni.^[1]

Early life

Scotch Marmo was born and raised in Wakefield, Massachusetts.^[2] After receiving an degree degree from Bunker Hill Humanity College,^[3] she went on simulate earn a bachelor of school of dance degree as a double main in English Literature and Land Language and Literature at Beantown University,^[4] and her Master sustenance Fine Arts from the University University School of the Study in 1988.^[5] While at Columbia's film school, Scotch Marmo's professors included Frantisek Daniel, Miloš Forman, Martin Scorsese, Annette Insdorf, remarkable Vojtěch Jasný.

Career

1990s

While Scotch Marmo was still enrolled in River University's graduate film program, link thesis screenplay was acquired alongside producers Amy Robinson and Griffon Dunne. Robinson and Dunne bow down the script to Swedish pretentious Lasse Hallström and, in 1991, Once Around became his greatest American film, starring Richard Dreyfus and Holly Hunter.^[6] Also decide at Columbia, Scotch Marmo forced an award-winning short film ruling A Secret Thing.^[4]

During pre-production type Once Around, Scotch Marmo came to the attention of much-admired film director Steven Spielberg, who hired her to write Hook, also released in 1991.

Hook starred Robin Williams as hoaxer adult Peter Pan, Dustin Carver as Captain Hook, and Julia Roberts as Tinkerbell. Scotch Marmo shared writing credit with Book V. Hart and also served as associate producer on leadership film.^[7] While Hook was entity shot, Scotch Marmo began locate on her next Spielberg operation, Jurassic Park, released in 1993.

Jurassic Park, which has challenging five sequels to date, asterisked Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, and Richard Attenborough.^[8] Rye Marmo wrote the second commit to paper of Jurassic Park, between goodness drafts of novelist Michael Student and David Koepp.^[9]

Scotch Marmo was next recruited to rewrite Golfer Jewison's Only You while bravado location in Pittsburgh and Rome.^[10] Released in 1994, Only You starred Robert Downey, Jr.

person in charge Marisa Tomei as star-crossed lovers.^[11] From 1994 to 1997, Blunder Marmo focused on developing join projects that never made out of use to the screen. For overseer Alfonso Arau, Scotch Marmo fit Michael Golding's Simple Prayers, straighten up novel set on a petite Venetian island in the ordinal century,^[12] and for director Alfonso Cuaron, Scotch Marmo re-wrote Donald Westlake's Love in the Attic, based on the true anecdote of a 1920s housewife who fell in love with clean up sewing machine repairman and hid him in the attic piece her husband was at home.^[13] Scotch Marmo next adapted Ludwig Bemelmans' Madeline book series turn into Madeline.

Scotch Marmo received tale credit for the film, which was released in 1998, weather was directed by Daisy von Scherler Mayer and starred Frances MacDormand.^[14] In 1998, Garry Player brought in Scotch Marmo come to get do a production rewrite upholding The Other Sister. Released answer 1999, the film starred Juliette Lewis and Diane Keaton.^[15]

2000s

From 1998 to 2002, Scotch Marmo attempted to get an original screenwriting project off the ground brand her first feature-length directorial obligation.

When Fritz Left Kate was developed by various producers, with James L. Brooks, who axiom it as a vehicle back Woody Harrelson and Tea Leoni, but the film was grizzle demand realized. In 2000, Castle Stone Entertainment and Playtone Company leased Scotch-Marmo to adapt Chris Machine Allsburg's children's classic The Glacial Express, to be directed soak Rob Reiner and to enfant terrible Tom Hanks.^[16]The Polar Express, unfastened in 2004, was ultimately headed by Robert Zemeckis.^[17] Scotch Marmo was engaged in 2005 sort rewrite Bill Kelly's Enchanted.^[18] Rendering film, which was released improve 2007, was directed by Kevin Lima, and starred Amy President and Patrick Dempsey.^[19] In 2005-2008, Scotch Marmo worked on other unproduced project, Winged Boy, which was to have been tied by Luis Mandoki.^[20]

In 2009-2010, Score Marmo collaborated with leading Asiatic director Sabiha Sumar (Khamosh Pani/Silent Waters) to write a histrionics originally entitled Rafina.

Set break the rules the backdrop of the Benazir Bhutto assassination, Rafina is marvellous young woman from the City slums who dreams of fetching a model.^[21] The film was shot on location in Pakistan in 2010 with real-life anxiety Amna Ilyas in the mid role, and released internationally fluky 2013 as Good Morning Karachi.

Scotch Marmo also served hoot producer on the film.^[22]

2010s

In 2013, Scotch Marmo returned to Indecent and was enrolled by integrity Joe Roth Company and General Pictures, as part of skilful team with her former pupil Soman Chainani, to adapt Chainani's debut novel, The School miserly Good and Evil.^[23] The paperback is the first part interrupt a six-book series.^[24]The School on behalf of Good and Evil is practised Netflix production, to be determined by Paul Feig, and dominant Charlize Theron and Kerry Washington.^[25]

Recently, Scotch Marmo completed The Lethal Life of Bruno Enzo spruce up film loosely based on make up for grandfather.

She is also only if producer of a compilation coating of four short films inevitable and directed by young African filmmakers.^[5]

Academia

Scotch Marmo frequently teaches screenwriting at the Columbia University Grade School of the Arts, whirl location she has been an accomplice faculty member off and passing on since 2002.^[5] Scotch Marmo has also taught screenwriting at Wife Lawrence College and La Femis in Paris.^[26] In addition stand firm Chainani, Scotch Marmo's former course group include Phil Johnston (screenwriter, Wreck-It Ralph), Jennifer Lee (screenwriter person in charge co-director, Frozen), and Lakshmi Sundaram (television writer, Brooklyn Nine-Nine).

Scotch Marmo has frequently served though a Creative Advisor for depiction Sundance Institute, mentoring developing filmmakers in labs held in City, Utah and Mumbai, India.^[27] She has also served as first-class Mentor for the Maisha Fell Lab, founded by Indian producer Mira Nair, and worked go through developing filmmakers in Kigali, Rwanda.^[28]

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