Dave Eisenstark

Dave Eisenstark - screenwriter (aka Burford Hauser) - PRODUCED WRITING - FEATURE FILMS: MONKEY LOVE. Comedy. Stars Jeremy Renner. World Premiere Seattle Film Festival. Best Digital Feature--Big Bear Film Festival. Allumination FilmWorks. TIPPING THE SCALE (Producer: Yuta Silverman). Religious/educational. Featurelength Afterschool Special type drama. Aderet Music. SHEFFIELD'S MANOR (Producer: Yuta Silverman). Religious/educational. Additional dialogue and additional editing. Aderet Music. CREEPOZOIDS (Empire). Sci-fi/Action/Horror. Stars Linnea Quigley. BLOOD NASTY (Omega/Moviestore). Comedy/Horror. Also associate producer. Stars Linnea Quigley and Troy Donahue. HACK-O'-LANTERN (aka HALLOWEEN NIGHT) (Spencer Film). Horror. SCANDAL: LAWFUL ENTRY (Click Productions). Sex Comedy. MIND OVER MATTER (Click Productions). Sex drama. THE WEDNESDAY NIGHT SAVE-THE-WORLD SOCIETY (what if...Productions) Comedy. Co-writer & co-director. Pro-Active Entertainment. PUBLISHED WRITING: The Video Killer, horror novel. Spanking Pulp Press. 2014. Bleeding Kansas, historical novel. World Castle Publishing. 2014. 13 (to date) ghostwritten novels. 7 published short stories. Weekly column: "Just for Verity." Weekly column and articles for Flixster.com. Staff Film Reviewer, Boxoffice Magazine. PRODUCED WRITING, SHORT FILMS: BEYOND THE SHELTER – 1-hour documentary about animal rights. SUGAR AND SPICE - children's film. LOST OPPORTUNITY - half-hour documentary. MS. MAGGIE - series of internet shorts. BURF - series of internet comedies. VIDEO MASTER DATING - series of 2-minute internet comedies. LIGHTSHIP ALPHA (Lasermedia)--multi-media amusement park ride. PRODUCED WRITING, TELEVISION: SAY WHAT (Be Productions)--writer--kids TV series. 2007. MAFIOSA (Americana Films)--co-writer--sit-com pilot. 2006. PRODUCED PLAY: THE WEDNESDAY NIGHT SAVE-THE-WORLD SOCIETY. Co-written with Fred Burke. Five-week run at the Chance Theatre, Anaheim, CA, 1999. PUBLISHED WRITING AS EDITOR: Gather the Moon by Leslie Wiebe. Snowflake River by Bem-Ami Eliahu. My Christian Penis by R. Tyler. The Worsening by Olivia Stanton OTHER: Profiled in Francesco Borseti's book "It Came from the 80s! Interviews with Cult Filmmakers." McFarland & Co. 2016 EDUCATION: BA--English Literature, U. of Kansas. MFA--Cinema Production, USC. AWARDS: WINNER, Applause Screenwriting Competition, for MIND'S EYE. Silver Award, Best Screenplay, Houston International Film Festival, for FORBIDDEN JOURNEY. Finalist, First Draft Screenwriting Contest for HELLMAN. Finalist, Acclaim Screenplay Competition for YOU SAY TOMATO. Finalist, WriteMovies.com Screenplay Contest for MOONLIGHT HIGHWAY. Semi-finalist, People’s Picture Show for MOONLIGHT HIGHWAY. Best Digital Feature, Big Bear Film Festival, for MONKEY LOVE. Best Feature-Director's choice, miniDV Film Festival, for THE WEDNESDAY NIGHT SAVE-THE-WORLD SOCIETY.