Found Money
Chaz Valenza
732.682.0155
chaztv@yahoo.com
Found Money (36 minutes – crime comedy) Writer/Producer
• Palm Springs Festival of Festivals 2002 – Official Selection
• California Independent Film Festival 2003 – Official selection
• Garden State Film Festival 2003 – Official selection/Short Film Finalist
• Zoie Film Festival 2003/2004 (online) – Official selection/Finalist
• Red Bank International Film Festival 2003 – Official selection/Finalist
• Black Point Film Festival 2003 – Official selection/Finalist
• Angelika Entertainment’s New FilmMakers Series 2003 – Official Selection
• Tambay International Film Festival 2003 – Official Selection
• New Screen Television – Regional Cable Syndication – 2006
The Heresy of Galileo (screenplay – historical drama) Writer
• TriggerStreet.com 2003 – Top Ten Favorite/Hall of Fame
• TriggerStreet.com March 2005 – Screenplay of the Month
• Chesterfield 1999 – Quarter Finalist
• Maui Screenwriting Competition 1999 – Semi Finalist
• Brooklyn Film Festival Screenwriting Competition 1999 – Finalist
Single Point Failure (screenplay – political drama – adaptation) Writer/Producer
Revealing Pictures – joint venture Cook & Valenza formed January 2008.
Based on the Richard C. Cook book Challenger Revealed: An Insider’s Account of How the Reagan Administration Caused the Greatest Tragedy of the Space Age.
Mile 111 (screenplay – political drama) Writer
A Palestinian terrorist’s suicide mission, to bomb a New York City commuter train as part of a larger plot, is compromised by a love/hate relationship with an American woman.
• Anything But Hollywood Screenwriting Competition 2002 – Winner
• TriggerStreet.com 2004 – Top Ten Favorite
• HypeFest Screenwriting Competition 2003 – First Runner-up
• American Gem Screenwriting Competition 2003 – Top Ten Gem
• TuCan Screenwriting Competition 2003 – Finalist
Coma Girl (screenplay – dark romantic comedy) Writer
A defrocked priest, a quack and an off-kilter mother walk into a cash cow: pilgrims swear the mother’s comatose daughter answers prayers. What to do when she suddenly dies? Replace her… with an actress.
• TriggerStreet.com February 2008 – Top Ten Favorite
Other writing credits:
Contributing Author: www.OpEdNews.com
Webblog: www.WordsWillNever.com
Education:
BFA – Theater Adelphi University, Garden City, NY
MBA – Marketing New York University, Stern School of Business, NYC