Paul Salamoff

It's hard to pin down Salamoff to one particular profession. An over twenty-year veteran of the industry, he has found success as a Writer, Producer, Film Executive, Comic Book Creator, Author, and originally as a Special F/X Make-Up Artist.Born in Natick, MA, he was raised on a healthy diet of sci-fi and horror from the age of five. After high school, he moved to California to attend film school at USC. Salamoff parlayed his obsession for genre filmmaking into a successful run as a professional Special F/X Make-Up Artist. In his years doing FX, he worked on over forty films, ten television series, and numerous commercials.His Film & TV writing credits include The Dead Hate The Living (co-written with Dave Parker), The St. Francisville Experiment and Alien Siege for the SyFy channel. He was recently named one of The Tracking Board's Top 100 up & coming Screenwriters and has just sold two feature films: Population: ME to Noel Clarke's Unstoppable Ent. and The Last Breath... to Eric Gitter & Peter Schwerin's Chickie The cop Productions.He is also author of the novel The Silent Planet and two non-fiction books: On The Set: The Hidden Rules of Movie Making Etiquette (which is in its 3rd Edition) and The Complete DVD Book: Design, Production and Marketing (co-written with Chris Gore).As a Comic Creator, Salamoff is the writer of a number of comic book series including Vincent Price Presents, Black Scorpion and the critically acclaimed Logan's Run: Last Day, Logan's Run: Aftermath as well as the upcoming Logan's Run: Rebirth written with William F. Nolan. He is also the creator of the original graphic novels: Discord and the upcoming Tales of Discord and Stasis.In 2005 Salamoff became Vice President of Production for David Lancaster Productions working on Wes Craven's The Breed and Hollow Man 2. After a successful merge with Bold Films, he became their Vice President of Production and worked on such films as Legion, Bobby and Starship Troopers: Marauder. After leaving Bold, he accepted the position of President of Production working on the upcoming festival darling Down For Life.Having been involved with The Academy of Science-Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films for over twelve years; he produced the 22nd, 23rd, 33rd, 34th and 35th Saturn Awards. Salamoff has also produced Video Game TV/Web Development Diaries and Trailers working on such high-profile projects as Reckoning: Kingdoms of Amalur, The Adventures of Tintin, Bulletstorm, Mafia 2, Mass Effect 2, Gears of War 2 and Dead Space. Show less «