CREATIVE TEAM

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MICHAEL GOLDBURG (Writer/Director) is an award-winning writer/director who earned his M.F.A. at NYU's Grad Film Program. Michael's films, including his recently celebrated AARON WITH 2 A’S, have screened at Oscar-qualifying festivals, garnered numerous awards, including Best Director and Best Screenplay, and are featured on Amazon Prime and Funny or Die. He has worked with creators from Comedy Central and The Onion, is a former script consultant with ScriptLaunch, and is an in-demand screenwriter for hire, recently co-writing a psychological thriller, NOT DARK YET, for an independent producer.

Michael's celebrated feature screenplay, SURE-FIRE, is a top-ranked script on Coverfly and has placed in numerous prestigious screenwriting competitions, including ScreenCraft, CineStory, Shore Scripts, ISA, Filmmatic, and Beverly Hills. His proof of concept short film for SURE-FIRE has screened at numerous prominent festivals and won multiple awards as well as the support of Sony Pictures Classics and Bleecker Street Media. Michael’s team for SURE-FIRE includes advisor Joe Pirro, Head of Production at Symbolic Exchange ("The Assistant"), founded by James Schamus (former CEO of Focus Features), who feels SURE-FIRE is one of the “funniest scripts he’s ever read” and Michael is “part of the next wave of emerging filmmakers to break through to wider audiences.”

Michael is also developing multiple other projects, including MARGO FOR REAL, a comedy pilot script, which was recently selected for the esteemed Catalyst Content Festival, as well as a feature adaptation of a darkly comic novel, SMALL GAME, by the former book editor of "The Chicago Tribune,” which he developed in Sundance Collab with Oscar-nominated screenwriter and advisor Naomi Foner. Michael is also an adjunct film professor at NYU Grad Film and Rider University.

“SURE-FIRE” Short Film

  • Directed by award-winning filmmaker Michael Goldburg

  • Written by Michael Goldburg, Dave Chan (Winner of Nashville Film Festival Screenplay Competition), and Steve Wisniewski (Finalist in Nicholl Fellowships)

  • Starring PJ Marshall ("Mindhunter" and "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel"), John Timothy (writer for CBS's "Ghosts"), and Lué McWilliams

  • Director of Photography Diana Matos (Hulu’s “Miguel Wants to Fight,” Netflix's “Neon” and "Go Off with Jess & Julissa")

  • Editor Luftar Von Rama (Marvel’s "The Mandalorian" and “Secret Invasion,” "Da 5 Bloods")

  • Costume Designer Emily Gunshor (Disney +’s “Daredevil: Born Again,” “Nutcrackers” with Ben Stiller, “Halloween Ends,” "Scream (2022)," "Halloween Kills”)

  • Music by Emmy-winning composer Michael Whalen

  • Production Designer Kate Rance (Slamdance's "We Are Living Things")

 
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DAVE CHAN (Writer) is the founder of Navy Yard Films, an independent film production company based in Brooklyn, NY. An acclaimed writer/producer, his short comedy script “Fly!” was a winner of the Academy Award-qualifying Nashville Film Festival. In addition, his "Family Guy: What The Phuc?!" spec script has either won or placed in almost 25 competitions including the prestigious Austin Film Festival. Dave was also an Executive Producer of the feature film "8-Ball,” a gritty, urban crime-drama starring Paul Ben-Victor from “The Wire” and Johnny "Roastbeef" Williams from “Goodfellas.” Dave has consulted on movie and television projects including the taut action film “Ambushed” starring Dolph Lundgren, Vinnie Jones, and Randy Couture as well as a TV pilot that was sold to Fox for development. He has been the Guest Festival Director, Juror, and Screenplay Judge for the Art of Brooklyn Film Festival. Dave also teaches screenwriting and filmmaking at Stony Brook University.

 

STEVE WISNIEWSKI (Writer) has had his scripts final or place over a dozen times in  national screenwriting competitions, including AFI and Scriptapalooza, and has placed in the top 10% of the Nicholl Fellowships and the Austin Film Festival. Steve has also had several of his screenplays optioned by producers, including one which is currently in pre-production. He is also a playwright, with productions regionally and in New York, including the New York International Fringe Festival.