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ROSS GRAYSON BELL

Screenwriting Lecturer

Ross Grayson Bell is the creative producer behind the ground-breaking feature film Fight Club and the executive producer of Under Suspicion where he united Gene Hackman and Morgan Freeman on the remake of the French film, Garde A Vue. Having created his own production company in Los Angeles in 1993, Atman Entertainment, Ross formed producing partnerships with Winona Ryder, Jamie Foxx, Lawrence Bender and Joshua Donen and has worked with the directors, David Fincher, Gillian Armstrong, Pedro Almodovar, Gore Verbinski, Sam Raimi, John Maybury, Stephen Hopkins and Roger Corman.

Since his adaptation of Tom Spanbauer's novel, The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon, landed him on the British List of Best Unproduced Screenplays, Ross has focused on screenwriting and has been commissioned to adapt Mark Leech's autobiography, A Product of the System for Peter Gabriel's Real World Pictures and the story of Barry Cox, I'd Like to teach the world to Sing in Perfect Cantonese for BBC Films.

Prior to his move to Hollywood in 1989, Ross worked in his native Australia on the films; Sweet Talker and The First Kangaroos and the TV series Willessee's Australians and Dolphin Cove.

First Class Bachelor of Economics - Sydney University.

Participant Productions (2002 - 2004), Producer

A Band Apart/Lawrence Bender Productions (1999 - 2001), Development Executive/Producer

Twentieth Century Fox (1996-1998), Producer

Atman Entertainment (1993 - present) Producer/Screenwriter

Rastar Pictures (1990 - 1993), Development Executive/Script Editor

Roger Corman's Concorde Pictures (1989), Script Editor/ScreenwriterRoadshow, Coote & Carroll (1987-1988), Production Assistant

I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing in Perfect Cantonese, BBC Films, Feature, Screenwriter - in development

A Product of the System, Real World Pictures, Feature, Screenwriter - in development

Evidence of Harm, Participant Productions, Feature, Producer - in development

50 Films to See Before You Die, TV Documentary, On Air Presenter

The Man Who Fell in Love With the Moon
, Feature, Screenwriter - in development

Ingle Woods (Jamie Foxx), New Line Cinema, Feature, Producer - in development

Fight Club, Twentieth Century Fox, Feature, 1999, Producer

Under Suspicion, TF1, Feature, 1999, Executive Producer

Lambs of God (Winona Ryder), Fox 2000, Producer - in development

Roustabout (Winona Ryder), Fox 2000, Producer - in development

The Quick and The Dead, Tri-Star Pictures, 1995, Producer's Assistant

Barbarians At The Gate, HB0, TV movie, 1993, script editor

Lost in Yonkers, Columbia Pictures, Feature, 1993, script editor

To Die Standing
, Concorde Pictures, Feature 1990, Screenwriter

Sweet Talker
, Feature, 1989, Third Assistant Director

Dolphin Cove, TV Series 1988, Third Assistant Director

Willesee's Australians, TV Series, 1987, Production Assistant

The First Kangaroos, Feature, 1987, Production Assistant