JOEL HOGAN

Joel grew up in the Australian countryside where he, his siblings and cousins made their own movies or recreated classics such as Robin Hood, Star Wars & Braveheart using the family camcorder and their 5 acre bushland property as a backlot.

He now works internationally as a writer/producer and recently sold a water-based, action screenplay to Sony Pictures and has a Marilyn Monroe horror film currently optioned by Heart Sleeve Productions.

Joel associate produced the crime thriller Chameleon with Emmy Award winning director Marcus Mizelle and veteran producer Jillian Longnecker (End Of Watch, Vice, Phantom Thread), co-wrote & lead produced the horror comedy Claw and developed the story for an upcoming animated feature alongside Disney composer Matthew Gerrard (Burlesque, High School Musical 3, Hannah Montana).

He’s written over fourteen feature screenplays/TV pilots on assignment alone. Ranging from psychological suspense thrillers; to a 1960s rock’n’roll music movie; a science fiction space epic; a Chinese/Australian romantic comedy; a wild west action adventure and an uplifting sports biopic based on a young man’s struggle and eventual victory over cancer - to name but a few.