Jonathan M. Flicker

After a brief love affair with Wall Street working for a big-time broker who ended up going to prison for insider trading, Jonathan changed course and moved to Los Angeles where he produced commercials for hotels while writing at night. His screenplay, "Zen Crashing", a financial thriller, made the top-30 in the Nicholl Fellowship, was optioned, and quickly found financing, but after several months, the project fell apart. Jonathan then sold his thriller pilot, "Nakam", to the Weinstein Company, immediately followed by the sale of "Zen Crashing" to a Chinese financier. Since then, he's been a top-10 finalist in numerous writing competitions including Screencraft, Big Break, and Launchpad. He went on to win the AMC Drama Teleplay Award at the 2019 Austin Film Festival for his gunrunning pilot, "Ghostrunner", and was selected as one of their 25 screenwriters to watch in 2020. Most recently, Jonathan was top-5 finalist for the 2021 Cinestory Fellowship.