Who Is This Guy From Bangkok & His Strange Screenplay - Snakeman?

LOS ANGELES - Sept. 6, 2013 - PRLog -- Once upon a time near the end  of time (comet ISON cometh after-all) a force of nature arose through  a fellow in all places - Bangkok. It is said this writer took all the wind out of the Atlantic Hurricane season  and placed it in his award winning tale: *SNAKEMAN.

*Think Indiana Jones and Raiders of the Lost Ark, only Indiana LOVES snakes!
Just "THE" Hurricane LA needs

So, have you ever heard of some guy from Bangkok being able to write a screenplay that wins (in this case five) of the major West coast international film festivals at the same time?

Is he some demented recluse? Or a somewhat normal (writers are never entirely “normal”), guy with a wife and two kids and a dog named Gatsby? Just because he has stolen the Atlantic Hurricane Season and his stories have won 19 international film festival best screenplay (THE WIND RIDERS, FREEDOM at MIDNIGHT, THE PLUMBER) awards and 50 runner-up, 2nd, 3rd place, finalist awards in the last 4 years?

Doesn’t make him a wizard …

Or the fact that - EVERY screenplay has been an award winner in the last four years.

Make him a genius …

Or does it?

These award accomplishments have never been done in the screenwriting world!

It is unheard of to be selected as a finalist at several festivals at the same time, so if a screenplay like SNAKEMAN is the only finalist in all of them, you have well … a hurricane!

I especially liked his win at the Action on Film Inter. Film Fest (August 16-24) which
won - Most Ambitious, (1of 6) nominations for "Arthur Feldman Award for excellence in Dramatic Writing“ ... because they had a reading of one of the scenes from the script at the festival before showing one of their films...

Here is just a sampling of the awards SNAKEMAN has won:

1. 2013 Winner - Los Angeles Cinema Festival of Hollywood – Award of Merit - Best screenplay

2. 2013 Winner - Best Action/ Adventure Screenplay - Los Angeles International Film & Script Festival

3. 2013 - Finalist Best Screenplay – Beverly Hills International Film Festival

4. 2013 – Honorable Mention “Best Screenplay” - Los Angeles Movie Awards

5. 2013 – Official Finalist – Best Screenplay – The Writers Place Screenplay Competition

6. 2013 – Official Finalist - Best Screenplay – Oaxaca International Film Festival (Mexico)

7. 2013 – Official Finalist (1 of 9) Best Screenplay – Southern California International Film Festival

8. 2013 – Official Finalist (1 of 16) - Burbank International Film Festival – Best Screenplay (California)

9. 2013 – Winner “Most Ambitious Screenplay” – AOF – Action on Film International Film Festival – Finalist Nomination (1 of 6) – “Arthur Feldman Award for Excellence in Dramatic Writing”

10. 2013 – Official Selection– Catalina International Film Festival – Best Screenplay – Catalina Island, California

Oh, by the way, the fellows name is Jeff Ryback (a displaced Bostonian) and if you wish  for a full disclosure of his awards simply contact: The Novel Process Literary Agency via hollywoodscott@hotmail.com (707 367-5381) we are happy to talk with directors and producers and story makers about Jeff’s many fine tales.

And here is more of his fine Bibliography emphasizing his talents other then story creation:

In May 2011 he won a "Best Actor" award in the San Francisco Best Actor in a Film Festival for his role in his one person stage play "Eugene O'Neill: Dancing with the Devil" which several years ago was also honored as a winner of the VRT National Playwrighting award.

In 2010 he was a principle actor in the hugely popular Russian Franchise Film: "Shadow Boxing 3D" (the Russian version of the American "Rocky" story) shot in Moscow, Honk Kong, and Thailand which opened on November 3, 2011 in Moscow. “Variety: “…the most successful action-adventure film in Russian history.”


His full length play," Eugene O'Neill: Dancing with the Devil" (a one man show), opened in New York City OFF-OFF Broadway at the American Ensemble Theater in February of 2000 for a three week run. Subsequently, the play won the Vermont Repertory Theater National Play writing Award. Excerpts from the play appeared in the Public Broadcasting magazine "North by NorthEast".
The play was published by The Players Press, Inc. of Los Angeles and was also the recipient of an Endowment for the Humanities grant to sponsor re-writes and a subsequent tour of the play.
Several summers ago Jeff was contracted to perform the play in Provincetown, Massachusetts by the Provincetown Theater Company. (Theater Review: The Cape Codder: "Dancing with the Devil is a must see production for anyone who has ever enjoyed an O'Neill play, anyone who has ever aspired to be a writer or who has been passionate about literature. Ryback is flawless...Don't miss this.").
His play, “The Many faces of William Shakespeare” was also a recipient of a Humanities grant which, in part, funded an extensive theatrical tour. Subsequently it was also published by the Players Press. In 1998 he was nominated for a national AETA theater award. Also in the 90s, he was invited to be included in the American Biographical Institute's 3rd edition of the International Directory of Distinguished Leadership as an outstanding biographer.

His stage play version of "Freedom at Midnight" was nominated as a finalist in the renowned West Coast Ensemble's annual play festival competition in Hollywood.

His commercial series as an actor for the Bank of Vermont was a finalist for an International Clio Award (the most prestigious advertising award in the world).
He recently wrote the screenplay, directed, edited, and narrated a video documentary for RIS and another one for the Artzen Gallery of Fine Art in Bangkok.

Among his many acting roles: psychiatrist in "Equus," Biff in "Death of a Salesman," Jamie in "Long Days Journey into night," Jamie in "A Moon for the Misbegotten," Captain Falcon Scott in "Terra Nova", Roma in "Glen Garry Glen Ross," Astrov in "Uncle Vanya," Jack Burden in "All the King’s Men, many- many more.
Among his directing credits: "Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (3 times), A Streetcar Named Desire, The Dresser, Educating Rita, Hello Dolly, Pippin, West Side Story, Godspell, Oedipus Rex, Don Quixote".

He also has an AB degree in Aviation Science and is an instrument rated commercial pilot and advanced ground-school pilot instructor.