Harold L. Brown, AKA Harold Lea Brown, Storyteller February 2021 Harold Lea Brown is a learned, recognized and seasoned business executive and chief strategist/futurist, with more than 30 years management experience, and national and international professional designations in management, information management and accounting, including the highest status that can be achieved in the management profession, a Chartered Fellow with the United Kingdom Chartered Management Institute.  His life long passion has always been storytelling, something he has become laser focused on in the last decade or so.  Besides being on movie and television sets as talent, he’s studied writing, acting and producing, all to inform his craft as a writer.  He’s committed to carrying on his family’s Scandinavian tradition of storytelling. Harold’s a multi-international award winning writer.  His work spans the drama, thriller, crime/mystery, action/adventure, western and comedy genres and includes screenplays, teleplays, miniseries, web series and novels.  His sub genre specialties include government, politics and technology.  His stories explore everything from racial challenges in an increasingly globalized world community, to the global threats of technology, to generational and intergenerational challenges families face, the impact of special interest groups, the evolving challenges of translocation something much more than immigration, to the unintended consequences of decisions and actions, and, so much more.  His writing has been recognized by more than fifty film festivals and writing competitions in Canada, the United States, Mexico, Spain, the U.K., Sweden, Ireland, the Netherlands, Italy, Romania, India, Indonesia and Australia, with IMDBPro awards and honours for his writing totaling sixty-eight wins and a further seventy-three nominations.  His techno thriller novel series has garnered five awards. He is one of the “Top 100 Indie Writers in the World,” profiled in a multimedia book published by Del Weston and Theresa Weston on iTunes.  In 2020 his work was nominated for the Jean-Luc Godard Award by the Cult Critic Movie Awards Film Magazine.  He is the recipient of the MEGAFest Action on Film International Film Festival Mico Award (2018) for innovation, courage and excellence in storytelling and the Script Summit Aristotle Award For Excellence in Screenwriting.  The Action on Film MEGAFest International Film Festival and the Las Vegas International Film and Screenwriters Festival named Harold 2019 Writer of the Year.  He has also been nominated for the Austin Revolution Film Festival “Randall Greenland Screenwriter of the Year Award (2017)” and was a “2015 Writer of the Year Award,” nominee—Action on Film International Film Festival.  Four of his screenplays have garnered positive reviews by the Academy Nicholl Fellowships, one top 10% finish, two top 20% finishes and one with two positive scores—just placing outside the top 20% finalists.  He has been a screenwriting “Second Rounder” four times at the Austin Film Festival. He is the sponsor of the Harold L. Brown Award of Excellence 1st Time Screenwriter presented annually at The Northern Virginia International Film & Music Festival, Washington D.C. Metro Area, to a first time writer who displays excellence and promise in their storytelling craft.  He is also a founding co-sponsor of the Young Storyteller Award presented annually at the Action on Film MEGAFest  International Film Festival to young storytellers under sixteen, with twenty-five youth making up the 2018 Class of Young Storytellers.  He has been a guest lecturer speaking on topics such as converting screenplays into novels, something he has done with the Deadly Invisible Enemies Series, and on advanced screenwriting, with such artists as Antonio Fargas, Del Weston and Matt DeGennaro. Harold is a regular contributor to magazines, including the AOF MEGAFest Magazine, where he has articles, including a series on Facing the Blank Page.  A link to the July 2019 article is included below:  https://simplebooklet.com/aofmegafestmagazinejuly2019#page=0  Summary of Writing Portfolio and Accomplishments  Additional details of results/awards/honors for Harold’s writing portfolio include:  XANDER SUN: Queen Protector of the DiVerse (Short, Web Series Pilot) Sci-fi/Animated: A precocious housebound thirteen-year old girl faces her deepest fears when her brother vanishes and she must travel to a parallel universe to rescue him from an evil czar. Awards and Honors: Best Sci-Fi Screenplay Festival Award Northern Virginia International Film and Music Festival (2021)Best Writer X World Short Film Festival (2020); Jean-Luc Godard Award Nominee (2020); Outstanding Achievement Best Short Script Cult Critic Movie Awards (2019); Van Gogh Award 3rd Place Best Short Film Screenplay Amsterdam Film Festival (2019); Best TV Screenplay Finalist Austin Revolution Film Festival (2019); Best Short Screenplay Quarterfinalist; ScreenCraft (2019); Best Web Episode Script Indie Gathering International Film Festival (2019); Finalist Best Screenplay National Irish Science Fiction Film Awards (The Golden Blasters) (2019); Finalist Best Screenplay Short  4KBK Film Festival (2019); 3rd Place Van Gogh Award Best Short Script Amsterdam Film Festival (2019); 3rd Place Best Screenplay ShortLos Angeles Independent Film Festival Awards (2018) THE LONG GOODBYE (Series)—Drama, co-written with Jane E.O. Keller: A dysfunctional family is thrown into crisis mode when their matriarch suffers a catastrophic medical event and her will to live challenges them to come together and heal. Awards and Honors:  Best Teleplay and MELISSA GOODMAN CAREGIVER AWARD Conquering Disabilities With Film International Film Festival (2020);  Honorable Mention Best TV Script Indie Gathering International Film Festival (2019);  Best TV Script Original Drama Las Vegas International Film and Screenwriting Competition and Festival (2019);  Best Social Commentary Script/Manuscript The NewsFest (True Stories) (2019); Runner Up Best Politically Relevant Script/Manuscript The NewsFest (True Stories) (2019); Best Teleplay MEGAFest Action on Film International Film Festival (2018).  20/20: SEARCH FOR INDEPENDENCE (Feature) – Techno Thriller: A cattle rancher invents a new energy source to replace oil and gets caught in a series of escalating Canada/United States/China conflicts and games of high-stakes espionage over global energy dominance, and must assess who he can really trust. Awards and Honors: Best Feature Script Finalist Asia Screen Awards (2019); Silver Award Best Feature Script Pinnacle Film Awards (2019); Runner-Up Best Script Las Vegas International Film Festival and Best Action/Script category winner (2018); semifinalist in the Orb Media Group China-Hollywood Screenwriting Fellowship (2018); Finalist Beverly Hills Screenplay Competition (2017): Grand Prize Award at the Mountain Film Festival (2017);  Best Script – Thriller Award, Austin Revolution Film Festival (2017);  Best Script Award Los Angeles Cinema Festival of Hollywood (2017); Semi-Finalist Stockholm Independent Film Festival (2017); Official Finalist Mexico International Film Festival (2016); Honorable Mention at the California Film Awards Festival (2016); Winner First Scene Award at the Thriller/Suspense Festival (2016); 3rd Place Award at the Yosemite International Film Festival (2016); Screenplay Jury Award at the Northern Virginia International Film and Music Festival (2016); Top 20% finalist Academy Nicholl Fellowship (2016) and Official Finalist Best Screenplay Award at the Canada International Film Festival (2016); Most Ambitious Script Award at the Action on Film International Film Festival (2015), Platinum Award Best Feature Screenplay, International Independent Film Awards (2015); Honorable Mention at the Barcelona International Film Festival and Williamsburg International Film Festival NYC, The Indie Gathering International Film Festival and Los Angeles Movie Awards (2015); and Official Finalist Best Screenplay at the Alaska International Film Festival and Honolulu Film Awards (2015).  DEADLY INVISIBLE ENEMIES (DIE) (Miniseries, TV Series with Bible, Web Series) –Techno Thriller: A renowned computer security expert loses everything when security is breached at the highest level of government and he enters an invisible underworld where crime and terrorism are a global electronic game played, won and lost one byte at a time. Awards and Honors: Nominated Best Screenplay (Miniseries) Canadian Cinematography Awards (2020);  Official Finalist Van Gogh Award Best Television (Miniseries) Script (2019); Nominated Best TV Script (Pilot) Original Drama Las Vegas International Film and Screenwriting Competition and Festival (2019); Seven Summits Award Best Screenplay-Miniseries at the Mountain Film Festival (2018); and the webseries won the 2017 1st Place Webseries Pilot Los Angeles Independent Film Festival (2017); Miniseries Most Likely to be Produced Screenplay Action on Film International Film Festival (2017); Best Suspense-Thriller Feature Script Award The Indie Gathering International Film Festival (2017); Best Drama/Action Award at MartialCon (2016); Official Finalist Award at the Honolulu Film Awards (2016); Gold Award for Feature Scripts, International Independent Film Awards (2015); Top 4 Finalist at the Harlem International Film Festival (2015); El Rey Award Special Jury Prize Screenplay, Barcelona International Film Festival (2014); Finalist Best Thriller/Horror Screenplay, Screenplay Festival (2014). DEADLY INVISIBLE ENEMIES (DIE) (Book Series) — Techno Thriller: Harold completed three novels in the Deadly Invisible Enemies Techno Thriller Series.  Evil in the Air (Book 1) and Hunt for Evil (Book 2) were published in 2014.  Book 3 was published June 2017. Awards and Honors: In 2016 these novels received the 2016 eLit Silver Medal Book Award for Best Anthology. Deadly Invisible Enemies: Evil Resurrection The DIE Series novels (Books 1-3) received the 2018 Book Excellence Award Finalist for Best Books in a Series; Best Book/Manuscript/Film Crime Story Finalist The Crime List Rebel Seed Studio (2019).  2020 DEADLY INVISIBLE ENEMIES (DIE): Evil Resurrection (Book 3) 2020 Elite Choice Book Award GOLD WINNER; DEADLY INVISIBLE ENEMIES (DIE): Evil Resurrection (Book 3), 2021 Literary Titan Silver Book Award winner.  WHITE WATER RESCUE (Feature, MOW) – Family, Action/Adventure: Barely eighteen and haunted by the final moments with her father, an Olympic kayaker struggles to find closure and purpose on the unforgiving waters of a Rocky Mountain river and reconnects with her deceased father in a way she could never have imagined. Awards and Honors: Best Screenplay Feature 4KBK Film Festival (2019); 2nd Place Best Family Feature Script The Indie Gathering International Film Festival (2019); Van Gogh Award Best Television Script Amsterdam Film Festival (2018); Best Dramatic Feature Script and 2nd Place Most Ambitious Script, and, was nominated Most Likely to be Produced at MEGAFest Action on Film International film festival (2018); Original Television Movie Denali Award Alaska International Film Festival (2018);  Top Three Finalist Best Screenplay, Williamsburg International Film Festival (2018); Silver Award Winner, Colorado Film Awards (2017); Screenplay Jury Award winner at the NOVA Film Festival (2017); 1st Place Best Screenplay Award Barcelona International Film Festival (2017); Silver Award winner Best Screenplay Alaska International Film Festival (2017); Official Finalist Feature at the Mountain Film Festival (2015); 3rd Place Winner Best Screenplay at the Winnipeg Real to Reel Film Festival (2015); Quarter Finalist Best Screenplay, Scriptapalooza Screenplay Competition (2015);  Finalist Best Family Screenplay, Screenplay Festival (2015); Best Screenplay at the Honolulu Film Awards, Honolulu, Hawaii (2014);  Winning Screenplay at TrindieFest, Colorado (2014); and Official Finalist at the Yosemite International Film Festival (2014). HOPE IS NOT A BLACK AND WHITE RAINBOW (Feature) – Crime, Mystery, Drama: An orphaned trustee manager, sent to a town to wrap up a sawmill owner’s estate, deals with escalating crime, complicated race relations and uncovers unimaginable secrets about his birth parents, as he begins to realize the lives of a community and displaced immigrants are dependent on him. Awards and Honors: Best Feature Screenplay (Canada) Toronto International Nollywood Film Festival (2020); Honorable Mention for Best Original Screenplay New York Film Awards (2020); : Nominated Best Feature Screenplay Canadian Cinematography Awards (2020);Jean-Luc Godard Award Nominee (2020) and Outstanding Achievement Best Feature Script Cult Critic Movie Awards (2019); Best Feature Script  – Mystery and Nominated Best Feature Script – Crime Las Vegas International Film and Screenwriting Competition and Festival (2019); Best Feature Screenplay Finalist Hollywood Dreamz International Film Festival and Writer’s Celebration (2019); Best Family Feature Screenplay Award at the Northern Virginia International Film and Music Festival (2018);  Best Family Feature Screenplay Award Austin Revolution Film Festival (2018); Semifinalist Best Screenplay at the San Francisco IndieFest (2018); Nominated best screenplay at the Beverly Hills Film Festival (2018); International Award of Merit For Screenwriting winner at the Jogja International Film Festival (Indonesia) (2018); Top 10 Screenplay Award ColorTape International Film Festival (Australia) (2017); 1st Place Feature Family Category at the Indie Gathering International Film Festival (2016); Finalist Script to Screen Award Sanford International Film Festival (2015); Best Dialogue Feature Award, Action on Film International Festival (2014);  2nd Rounder (top 15%) Finalist Best Screenplay, Austin Film Festival (2014); Honourable Mention at the Williamsburg International Film Festival NYC (2014); Bronze Award at the International Independent Film Awards (2014); Official Finalist at the Barcelona International Film Festival (2014); top eight finalist at the Los Angeles New Media Film Festival (2014); WILDsound Screenplay Festival Best Feature Screenplay (2014) with a full screenplay reading by professional Toronto actors at:  http://www.wildsoundfestival.com/hope_is_not_a_black_and_white_rainbow.html. Top three Screenplay Finalist at the NYC Harlem International Film Festival (2012); Aloha Accolade Award Honolulu Film Festival (2011) and Official Finalist Las Vegas International Film Festival (2010).  DESTINY OF TAR AND FEATHERS (Feature, Series with Bible) – Drama: A Metis lawyer is a perpetual outsider who wants nothing to do with his past, yet everything about his future success is tied to it—the harder he tries to succeed as a lawyer in the white corporate world, the more he is drawn into facing his heritage, estranged family and identity. Awards and Honors:  Best Feature Length Script and Nominated for Best Politically Relevant Script/Manuscript, Best Social Impact; Best Script Inspired by History and Best Human Interest The NewsFest (True Stories) (2020); Nominated Best Screenplay Canadian Cinematography Awards (2020);  Nominated Best Drama Screenplay Northern Virginia International Film and Music Festival (2019); Nominated Best Feature Screenplay Golden Palm Screenplay Competition Beverly Hills Film Festival (2019); Nominated Best Script Finalist Action on Film International Film Festival (2019); 3rd Place Winner Best TV Pilot at the Indie Gathering International Film Festival (2018); 2nd Rounder AMC One-Hour Pilot Script Competition, Austin Film Festival (2017); Grand Jury Prize Best Screenplay at the Barcelona International Film Festival (2016); Gold Award at the International Independent Film Awards (2016); Silver Award Best Drama Screenplay at TrindieFest Colorado (2015); Official Selection at the Global Screenplay Competition Oaxaca FilmFest Mexico (2015); Official Finalist at the Mountain Film Festival (2015); 1st Place Winner at the Yosemite International Film Festival (2014); 1st Runner Up Award for Best Screenplay at the Action on Film International Film Festival (2013); Best of Category and an Official Finalist at the Honolulu Film Awards (2013); Early version titled A Criminal Action Top 20% finalist at the Academy Nicholl Fellowships (2007). DEVIL’S VALLEY JUSTICE (Feature) — Modern day western action/adventure: An emotionally distant patriarch must saddle up and use everything within his means to rescue his kidnapped daughter as a result of a multi-generational feud between a Mexican cattle baron family and the lawmen in an Arizona border town. Awards and Honors: 2018 Semi-finalist at the Evolution! Mallorca International Film Festival (Spain); 2nd Place Winner, Alaska International Film Awards (2017); Honorable Mention (top 4) Award winner in the Circus Road Films competition (2017); Award of Merit Best Screenplay from Los Angeles Cinema of Hollywood (2016); Finalist Award at the Hollywood International Moving Pictures Festival (2016); Two positive scores in the Academy Nicholl Fellowships (2016) placing just outside the top 20% of scripts; Official Selection at the Beverly Hills International Film Festival and Northern Virginia International Film and Music Festival (2016); 1st Place Award Best Feature Action Screenplay, The Indie Gathering International Film Festival (2015); 2nd Place Award Best Screenplay, Barcelona International Film Festival (2015); 4th Place Award, Best Action/Thriller Feature Screenplay, Los Angeles Independent Film Festival (2015); Official Selection for Best International Screenplay at the Mexico Oaxaca FilmFest (2014); Award of Merit Best Screenplay at the Catalina Film Festival (2014); International Independent Film Award Silver Award (2014); Silver Medallion Award Bare Bones International Film and Music Festival Best International Screenplay (2014); Accepted into the Sacramento International Film Festival (2014); 2nd Place Award Best Screenplay Mexico International Film Festival (2013); The Gold Kahuna Award for best screenplay Honolulu Film Awards (2012); Honourable Mention at the Las Vegas Film Festival and Los Angeles Movie Awards (2012); Selected for production of a writer’s scene at the Action on Film International Film Festival (2012), at:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaVHgeKHlxg   Award winning Performer and Director Anthony De Longis read the short film scene screened during the 2012 film festival. RIVER CITY SERIES (Half-hour series) –Comedy - A satirical look at how far special interest groups push the envelope for their own agenda. In the pilot episode, newly elected city Councilor, Judy Braun, and her husband, Jack, Chief of Staff to the Alberta Premier, experience the politics and family challenges of living with chickens on a city golf course. Meanwhile, Brahma Rooster and Brahma Hen muse about allergies caused by the city’s use of environmentally friendly pesticides on the golf course. Awards and Honors: Best Short Script Silver Award Independent Shorts Awards (2020); Nominated Best Short Script Las Vegas International Film and Screenwriting Competition (2020); 3rd Place Television Pilot Competition The Indie Gathering International Film Festival (2020) MATT AND THE GARDEN OF EVA (Feature) – Comedy: A desperate insurance salesman hoping to cash in on life, goes fishing for suckers and unknowingly catches a cougar who plans to cash out for his life. Awards and Honors: Best Feature Comedy Script Las Vegas International Film and Screenwriting Competition (2020); Best Dramedy Feature Screenplay The Venus Italian International Film Festival (2019); Aloha Accolade Award Best Screenplay at the Honolulu Film Awards (2018); 2nd Place Feature Comedy The Indie Gathering International Film Festival (2018); The Top 20 IndieFest Screenplay in the World winner (2005). THE JOY STIK (Feature) – Comedy: After being fired by his golf club, a womanizing Club Pro struggles to keep his head above water as his penis is being controlled by an angry student’s voodoo doll. Awards and Honors: Best Romantic Comedy Screenplay Over 20 Pages Northern Virginia International Film and Music Festival (2020);Nominated Top 20 Finalist Best Screenplay Catalina Film Festival (2019);  Nominated Best Feature Comedy Finalist Austin Revolution Film Festival (2019); Nominated Best International Comedy Screenplay Houston Comedy Film Festival (2019); Nominated Best Feature Film Script Comedy Las Vegas International Film and Screenwriting Competition and Festival (2019); 1st Place Best Romantic Comedy Award The Indie Gathering International Film Festival (2017); 1st Runner Up Best Comedy Scene Award at the Action on Film International Film Festival (2015);  Official Finalist at the Honolulu International Film Festival (2010). THE INVISIBLE MESSENGER (Feature) Conspiracy Thriller: Garnered many awards, including top 10% finalist in the Academy Nicholl Fellowships (2004). Untitled: Special Agent – (Series and Novel) Action/Crime series.  Writing partner with creator and co-writer.  Season 1 and novel have been drafted. Awards and Honors: Silver Award Best Short Script  (Pilot) International Independent Film Awards (2020) Untitled Based on True Events – (Feature/Series) – Drama/Biography - Draft completed. PRODUCER: Harold has received the award for ‘Most Promising Producer’ in Alberta, where such feature movies as Unforgiven, Broke Back Mountain and Mystery Alaska, a project where he studied the craft as a background actor during a major winter storm disaster, were filmed, and is a producer of more than eighteen television, feature, short, documentary and new media projects; and worked as a contract producer on number of projects, including a Boreal Forest Documentary.  Recent projects he is a producer on include the award winning Furthest from the Wild (3 Episodes) (2019); Trick (2021); Ole King Cole (2021 Post); Soldier in the Barn (2021 Post); Her Mind in Pieces (2019); Last Stand to Nowhere (2019) and Evie’s Christmas Gift (2018).  TALENT: Exploring all aspects of storytelling, Harold studied action with LA Director Tom Logan and he has appeared in more than fifteen commercials, industrial films; Made for TV Movies and series, and feature films.  MEMBERSHIPS - Alberta Media Production Industries Association (AMPIA), CANADA, Crime Writers of Canada, Canadian Authors Association, International Thriller Writers Association USA, Chartered Professional Accountants Association of Alberta (CPA,CGA), Charter Member of Robert McKee’s Storylogue, USA, Canadian Institute of Management (CIM, P.Mgr, C.Mgr) and Chartered Fellow Chartered Management Institute-United Kingdom (CMGR, FCMI). Harold has also won The Editor’s Choice Award for Poetry, Project Name “Life’s an Opportunity” and the Canadian Office Magazine Award and an International Literary Recognition Award for a technical article on information management. FILM AND TELEVISION EDUCATION: MasterClass: 2017 Shonda Rhimes Teaches Write for TV MasterClass: 2016: Aaron Sorkin Teaches Screenwriting MasterClass: 2015 James Patterson Teaches Writing Online Thriller School, International Thriller Writers Association: 2015 Dov Simens’ Film School: 2014 Robert McKee's Story Seminar Year: 2003 and 2007; Thriller and Comedy Genres 2002 Northern Alberta Institute of Technology Intensive Producer Emergence Program Year: 2005 Tom Logan, LA Director, Producer and Actor  Introductory, Advanced and Masters Acting Class Year: 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 University of Alberta Writing Creative Non-Fiction, Myrna Kostash Year: 1998 SPECIAL NOTES:  Harold is one of a small group of civilian executives invited to the National Defense College, Department of National Defense, Kingston, Ontario, CANADA, and is a Graduate of the National Securities Studies Program for Senior Military Officers.  The program was an intensive study of major geographic regions of the world, including the global security threats and opportunities presented – politically, socially, technically and economically.  He participated in a presentation to South African President Nelson Mandela’s United Nations Representative on the threats and opportunities in the Sub-Sahara, Africa.