Fred Strype is an award-winning screenwriter and filmmaker whose work has been screened and honored internationally. He is a tenured professor at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, NY, where he is Chair of their Filmmaking & Moving Image Arts Program. In the past, he served on the faculty of his alma mater, Columbia University in the Graduate Film Division where he earned his MFA in Film. He is a partner in Raindance Pictures, an independent production company with projects developed for Columbia/Tristar/Sony, Lifetime, MTM Productions, Family Channel, FX, Alliance/ Atlantis, Capella Films, Turman-Foster Productions, James Manos Productions, FX and Avenue Pictures. Strype is the former Executive Director of the Irving Texas Film Commission serving Dallas/Ft. Worth. His awards include the Grand Prize at the Nantucket Film Festival, The Showtime Tony Cox Award in Screenwriting, and he was also inducted into the Nantucket Screenwriters Colony in 2008. He has been a screenwriting juror and conference moderator/panelist at the Austin Film Festival for more than a decade, where he was a past award recipient for his screenwriting. He is on the Advisory Board of The KD Conservatory of Acting, Theater & Film in Dallas, and also serves on the Advisory Board of Columbia University’s Graduate School of the Arts. He is also currently a juror, moderator and panelist at the Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival. His most recent work includes his award-winning short film, “Got Next,” as well as the hit web series, “Gayle Waters-Waters,” on which he serves as executive producer and performer.  He is also co-creator, executive producer and director, with partner Douglas Mac Hugh, on the web series, “Socially Active,” the web feature, “Elusive” and the original dramatic spec TV series, “Providers.” He is currently adapting the Jack London novel, “Martin Eden” for the screen with director Jay Craven for production this coming Spring 2019 as part of their semester-long program, The Cinema Sarah Lawrence Film Intensive Project, which pairs a seasoned film crew with film students from twenty U.S. colleges to create a professional feature film.  Strype’s book, “Bulletproof Screenwriting – Essential Essays on the Art & Craft of Film-Telling” is scheduled for release this coming year.