Jeremy Pikser
Jeremy Pikser is an award-winning screenwriter.
Best known for Bulworth (co-written with Warren Beatty), which was nominated for Academy, Golden Globe, and WGA Awards for best screenplay, and won the LA Film Critics Best Screenplay award for 1998. Pikser got his start working as a "special consultant" and uncredited writer on the film Reds (also with Beatty, and also nominated for an Academy Award for screenplay). He wrote The Lemon Sisters, starring Diane Keaton, Carol Kane, Elliott Gould, Kathryn Grody, and Ruben Blades, and War, Inc. (co-written with Mark Leyner and John Cusack), starring Cusack, Marissa Tomei, Ben Kingsley, and Hilary Duff, which premiered at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival in New York City. He was "supervising writer" for Pink Subaru, which opened at the Turin Film Festival in 2009.
Pikser teaches screenwriting at New York University in the Rita and Burton Goldberg department of dramatic writing at the Tisch School of the Arts, and is a regular advisor at the Sundance Screenwriters' Lab. He is also an occasional contributor to The Huffington Post[1] and he has commented on the writer's strike and other subjects on The Guardian website Comment Is Free.[2]
Pikser cut his activist teeth at Oberlin College, where he was a leading opponent of the Vietnam War, and was one of the authors and organizers of the Not in Our Name Statement of Conscience opposing the US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.