Noam Friedlander

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Noam Friedlander
Born8 October
London, England
OccupationWriter
Years active1997–present

Noam Friedlander is an author, award-winning scriptwriter, playwright, columnist, interviewer and feature writer. She has written 14 non-fiction books on subjects ranging from sport, religion, entertainment and children's names as well as having over 20 years of experience as a journalist for various broadsheets and magazines.

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She also writes scripts for TV and worked on the final UK TV series Dream Team , which was on Sky1, as well as being the Question Writer and working on the production team for the UK version of US show Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader , which was also shown on Sky1 as Are You Smarter Than a 10-Year-Old . [1]

Screen writing awards

In 2015, Noam was a finalist in The Beverly Hills Film Festival Competition for her script The Red, which was previously a play performed at the Piven Theatre Workshop in Chicago in 2014 under the direction of Joyce Piven. [2] [3] [4] In August 2015, the script for The Red received an 'Honorable Mention' at WilliFest's Screenplay Competition. (WilliFest is also known as Brooklyn's Williamsburg International Film Festival). [5] In October 2015, her script The Red was the winner of the Screenplay Competition at the San Pedro International Film Festival. [6] In June 2016, The Red was a quarter-finalist at the Austin Revolution Film Festival. [7] In August 2016, the script for The Red was a ‘Preliminary Finalist’ at the 2016 Creative World Awards. [8] The same script was also a 'second rounder' at the Austin Film Festival. [9] In October 2016, The Red was a runner-up at the Denver Film Festival. [10] Finally, in January 2017, her script The Red was the winner of the Best Historical Screenplay Competition at the Mediterranean Film Festival Winter Edition. [11]

Other

She is daughter of Rabbi Albert Friedlander.

Her 2005 book What Is Opus Dei has been translated into several languages and published worldwide. [12] [13] [14]

In 2008, Noam Friedlander was shot in the back by a sniper while walking down the street in Los Angeles and wrote about it for The Guardian . [15] While in LA, Friedlander has been writing extensively for Stella, the Sunday supplement of The Sunday Telegraph interviewing celebrities such as Diane Kruger, Rose Byrne, Chelsea Handler, Kelly Reilly, Amanda Seyfried and Drew Barrymore. [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] In 2015, she interviewed Salma Hayek for the cover of the deluxe edition of ES magazine (part of the Evening Standard). [22]

Due to her prolific writing career, Friedlander is also a member of the Authors Guild, America's leading advocate for writers' interests. [23] In 2011, Friedlander set up a film production company to champion independent films. [24] She has taken part in a number of 'story telling' shows while living in Los Angeles including Anna David's show True Tales of Lust and Love [25] and the famed Write Club event at the Bootleg Theater in Los Angeles. [26]

In November 2012, Friedlander's best-selling biography of Katy Perry was published in both Europe and the United States. [27]

In June 2017, Noam Friedlander wrote and performed a one-woman show at the Hollywood Fringe Festival at Studio C @ The Asylum Theater. The show, 'Behind The Pulpit', [28] featured stories about her father Rabbi Albert Friedlander. The show was sold out for all of its performances. [29]

Noam supports Queens Park Rangers. [30]

Selected bibliography

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References

  1. ↑ Are You Smarter IMDB link
  2. ↑ Beverly Hills Film Festival 2015 link Archived 2 June 2015 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ↑ Piven Theater Workshop Joyce Piven bio
  4. ↑ Piven Theater Casting Call
  5. ↑ WilliFest Screenplay Competition
  6. ↑ San Pedro International Film Festival Official Site
  7. ↑ Austin Revolution Film Festival
  8. ↑ Creative World Awards
  9. ↑ Austin Film Festival
  10. ↑ Denver Film Festival
  11. ↑ – Mediterranean Film Festival
  12. ↑ Turkish copy of What Is Opus Dei
  13. ↑ Czech copy of What Is Opus Dei
  14. ↑ Czech copy of What Is Opus Dei
  15. ↑ "First person: Why I'll never go on another diet". The Guardian . 30 January 2009. Archived from the original on 31 May 2023.
  16. ↑ "Diane Kruger interview". The Daily Telegraph . Archived from the original on 26 March 2023.
  17. ↑ "Rose Byrne interview for Adam". The Daily Telegraph . Archived from the original on 23 April 2023.
  18. ↑ Chelsea Handler interview
  19. ↑ "Kelly Reilly interview". The Daily Telegraph . Archived from the original on 21 October 2022.
  20. ↑ "Amanda Seyfried interview: Hollywood at her heels". The Daily Telegraph . Archived from the original on 3 June 2023.
  21. ↑ "Drew Barrymore interview". The Daily Telegraph . Archived from the original on 25 July 2023.
  22. ↑ Evening Standard Interview with Salma Hayek
  23. ↑ Authors Guild
  24. ↑ Friedlander Films
  25. ↑ LA Weekly Review of True Tales of Lust & Love
  26. ↑ Write Club Event
  27. ↑ Book on Katy Perry
  28. ↑ Better Lemons website
  29. ↑ Hollywood Fringe Festival 2017 Behind The Pulpit
  30. ↑ QPR website
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