⢠Magazine/newspaper Articles (selected): Playback, The Big Frame ...
Philip Moscovitch
Phone: 902-823-1804
Fax: 902-823-1914
E-mail: writer@moscovitch.com
www.moscovitch.com
Print/Web
• Mag
azine/Newspaper articles (selected): Playback, The Big Frame, Montage, Canadian
Screenwriter, Globe and Mail, Montreal Gazette, Shambhala Sun, CBA National, Career
Verdict, Concordia Magazine, York U Magazine, Queen’s Alumni Review, Les carrières de
l’ingénierie, Les carrières du droit, Reader's Digest , Hour (books columnist).
• Boo
ks: Look Ahead, Get Ahead: Growing Career Opportunities for Technicians and
Technologists (EMC Career Editions), main contributor, writing personal career profiles;
Dogs With Jobs (Simon and Schuster), ghostwriter, one chapter; Sounds New (Muses’
Press), contributor.
• Comic
strip scripts: “Daisy Dreamer” (ages 6-9, Chickadee magazine), 60+ episodes; “Alex
and Charlie” (ages 9-12, Owl magazine), 1 episode.
• Children's
fiction: “Adventures with Ardo-X.” Short story. Chickadee magazine.
• Youth
websites: Writing/consulting/language adaptation on a number of websites for youth
created by the NFB, including Talespinners Hands-On Workshops (writer/editor; animation
workshops for ages 9-12); XS Stress (writer/editor; youth site for ages 12-18 to accompany
documentary of the same name). Privacy policy and “About Us” sections for <NFBKids.ca>.
• Case
studies: Canada Newswire. 500-word studies highlighting the company's products and
services.
• Film
and TV media kits/promotional writing/DVD and video packaging: Materials for
hundreds of productions, for clients including NFB, TVA International, Stephen Low
Productions, First Run/Icarus Films. Barry Greenwald Films, and Face to Face Media.
• User/study guides
: Mediasphere (editor; curriculum-tailored user guides for a wide range of
films and ages); XS Stress (editor; film on coping with stress for ages 12-18); Salt (writer;
youth-driven NFB film project for ages 12-17); Flipping the World: Drugs Through a Blue
Lens (editor; junior high/high-school film on drugs); Someone To Talk To (writer; film for
upper elementary/junior high on peer mediation).
Translation (French-English)
• Cirque du Soleil: Scripts for all 13 episodes of the Solstrom TV series, presentations, film
treatments, stage directions for a live show/broadcast.
• National Film Board: Media releases, speeches, presentations, websites, newsletters,
reports, film descriptions, NFB Cinema guides, memos, and an animator handbook for a
youth science activity. Websites include Ultrabug Cliposcope (language adaptation; create
your own animation site for ages 9-12); The Mission (language adaptation; award-winning
science games site for ages 9-12).
• CNW: MD&A reports, speeches, media releases, corporate documents.
• TVA International: Study guides, presentations, newsletters.
• Astral Media: Website text and audio for <radiolibre.ca>
• Éditions du Trécarré: Great North: Discover the Arctic World. Language adaptation for
youth ages 12-16 (based on original French study guides accompanying the IMAX film Great
North).
• Caribou Québec: Website.
Film and Television
• Children's
animation: Poko (pre-school, Halifax Film/CBC), 1 story.
• Narra
tion: Lost (NFB/CBC-The Nature of Things); Dogs With Jobs (Cineflix), 2 episodes;
Brother 2 Brother (NFB).
• Shooting
script: EQ (Triad Films) — ½-hour pilot for Discovery.
• Story c
onsultant: The Seasons of Ted Nolan (Creative Atlantic/APTN/CBC), Deconstructing
Supper (MSK Productions); Dreammakers (NFB), Mary Jane Lamond: A Sharing of Song
(Travlyn Productions/Triad Films).
• Radio documentary writ
er/direc
tor: High Steaks (12-minute radio documentary for CBC
Radio One) Miksang Photography (12-minute radio documentary for CBC Radio One).
• Ea
rly development/pitches: Cyberwar (Cineflix), Gene Hunters (Cineflix); Beyond the Birds
and the Bees (The Talent Group); Alden Nowlan, Canada for Sale, Death Becomes You
(Triad Films), Give Me Your Soul (NFB) and many others.
• Research
: EQ, Gene Hunters, Biotech Century (Cineflix), Dogs with Jobs, Idea of Money
(NFB).
Project Management (Film and Television)
• Ma
rketing Manager, Atlantic Canada, NFB (Oct 2003- Feb 2005; June 2005-Oct 2005);
Product Manager, Documentary East, NFB (1996-97): Responsible for developing and
coordinating the launches of dozens of documentaries — writing marketing plans;
organizing and staffing public screening events; coordinating among directors, producers,
festival staff, and distribution and publicity teams; developing and managing budgets;
working on design, writing, and publishing of promotional materials; researching and
building partnerships with outside organizations; managing freelancers.
• Edito
r, Canadian
Screenwriter mag
azine (2001-2005 ): Working with staff and editorial
board on developing story ideas; determining lineup; assigning writers and photographers;
writing and editing articles; photo selection; overseeing magazine production.
• Senior
Writer/Editor, NFB Marketing (1997-98): In charge of production of NFB home
consumer and educational/institutional catalogues, as well as for copy-editing all print and
online promotional materials for NFB English Program.
• Pr
oject Manager: Passport to Canada (3 video/DVD set with study guide), NFB/Citizenship
and Immigration Canada; Being Caribou documentary launch and screening campaign, NFB.
Other
• School
workshops/readings: Workshops for P-6 on writing comics; workshops for Grades 5-
9 on school newspaper production and documentary writing. Various live appearances,
including Word on the Street and ABC Canada Family Literacy Day.
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Education
MA, History and Philosophy of Religion. Concordia University (1996)
BA, Creative Writing, Minor in Religion, Concordia University (1991)
Memberships
Writers Guild of Canada; Professional Writers Association of Canada; Writers’ Federation of
Nova Scotia (board member)
Languages
French, Greek
References
By request
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