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Jeff Bollow (born September 25, 1971 in Santa Monica, California) is an actor, writer, director, producer, author and public speaker. In 1996, after ten years of moderate success as an actor in his native Los Angeles, Bollow migrated to New Zealand, and then to Australia, where he founded the Screenplay Development Centre, and authored the book Writing FAST: How to Write Anything with Lightning Speed.

Career history

Bollow began acting as a teenager, appearing in dozens of film, television, stage, and commercial productions, including Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
, Ann Jillian, Columbo, Pink Lightning and Gabriel's Fire, as well as television commercials for Kellogg's Pop-Tarts, Doritos, Visa Card, and several others.

During this time, he also did a wide assortment of production work for companies such as Universal Pictures, Roger Corman's Concorde/New Horizons, and several music video companies, before making his own short films, including the IFC New Filmmaker Award-winning 1995 short "The Duel".

In 1996, Bollow moved to New Zealand, where he continued acting, with minor appearances in Shortland Street, Lost Valley, Young Hercules (as an ADR actor), and several others. While in New Zealand, he wrote 6,000 Miles from Hollywood, an independent feature film project co-produced with Billy Milionis in Sydney on a shoestring budget, a project which was abandoned in post-production after seven years.

Frustrated by his inability to find Australian screenplays to produce, Bollow began teaching screenwriting workshops. He created the Screenplay Development Centre and offered acclaimed workshops and seminars throughout Australia, New Zealand and internationally.

In 2004, Bollow designed a systematic approach to the writing process he dubbed "the F.A.S.T. System", an acronym for Focus, Apply, Strengthen, Tweak. He authored a book called Writing FAST: How to Write Anything with Lightning Speed, which was briefly an Amazon.com bestseller in May 2005.

Bollow recently announced the launch of the Big Mountain Short Film Festival in Ohakune, New Zealand in October 2006.

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