James Grimaldi

FILM – TV – ANIMATION screenwriter producer

Learn about my teaching style with this short podcast:

SPRING 2022 – BRAND NEW COURSE – HITCHCOCK: FILM & TV

FORDHAM UNIVERSITY – ROSE HILL – 2010-PRESENT

10 Courses I teach:

- Hitchcock: Film & TV

- Global Cinema

- Italian Cinema

- Understanding Film

- Screenwriting 1: Introduction

- Screenwriting 2: Advanced

- Screenwriting 3: Rewriting

- Sitcom Writing: creating a comedy TV pilot

- Writing TV Drama: creating a show bible + a season-long story + one episode script per student

- Memoir Writing for War Veterans

 

SCHOOL OF VISUAL ARTS – NYC – 2011-2021

7 Courses I TAUGHT:

- Animation Screenwriting

- Advanced Animation Screenwriting

- Animation Story & Storyboarding

- Fundamentals of Narrative

- Transmedia Storytelling

- Microstory Bootcamp

- Thesis Advisor

Managed over 100 animation IPs per year:

- from logline, to core cast, to world-building

- from story structure to executed script to rewrites

- visual assets: concept art & character designs

- from storyboards to animatic

- color scripting & sound design