Harold L. Brown

A seasoned business executive, turned fiction writer, Harold has written more than eight award winning screenplays, teleplays, miniseries and web series, spanning the drama, thriller, crime/mystery, action/adventure, western and comedy genres. His sub genre specialties include government, politics and technology. His writing has been recognized by more than fifty film festivals and writing competitions in Canada, the United States, Mexico, Spain, the U.K., Sweden, the Netherlands, Indonesia and Australia, with IMDBPro awards and honors for his writing totaling fifty-one wins and fifty-two nominations. He is a founding co- sponsor of the Hank Garrett Young Storyteller Award presented annually at the Action on Film MEGAFest International Film Festival to young storytellers fifteen and under, with twenty-five youth making up the 2018 Class of Young Storytellers. He is also the sponsor of the Harold L. Brown Award of Excellence 1st Time Screenwriter presented annually at The Northern Virginia International Film & Music Festival, Washington D.C. Metro Area, to a first time writer who displays excellence and promise in their storytelling craft. He has been a guest lecturer speaking on topics such as converting screenplays into novels, something he has done with the Deadly Invisible Enemies Series, and on advanced screenwriting, with such artists as Antonio Fargas, Del Weston and Matt DeGennaro. In 2018, Harold received the Action on Film MEGAFest International Film Festival Mico Award for Innovation, Courage and Excellence in storytelling and the Script Summit Aristotle Award For Excellence in Screenwriting. Harold was named one of the "Top 100 Indie Writers in the World," in a multimedia book published by Del Weston and Theresa Weston on iTunes January 2017. He was nominated for the 2017 Austin Revolution Film Festival "Randall Greenland Screenwriter of the Year Award" and is a "2015 Writer of the Year Award," nominee-Action on Film MEGAFest International Film Festival. Harold's latest in-depth writing venture is a conspiracy thriller techno series, "Deadly Invisible Enemies." To date, three novels in the D.I.E. series have been published-"Deadly Invisible Enemies: Evil in the Air," "Deadly Invisible Enemies: Hunt for Evil," and "Deadly Invisible Enemies: Evil Resurrection." His "Deadly Invisible Enemies Miniseries Teleplay is the 2017 Action on Film Most Likely to Be Produced Award winner. Story has always been a part of who Harold Lea Brown is-it is in his blood. He believes story is life well told. In his teens, he told story through music when he played in a rock band. Later he told story through award winning poetry and used story as a way of communicating corporate history and vision as a chief business strategist. He has also published award winning technical articles in information management. His family roots are Norwegian and Finnish, where story is core to passing on history to future generations. While holding down corporate executive positions, he studied fiction and non-fiction writing, screenwriting, acting, television and film production, taking on opportunities to be on the set of television and movie shoots-all to learn alternative mediums of storytelling. He has appeared as an extra or actor in more than fifteen Canadian, U.S. and international co-productions, commercials, industrial films, made-for-television movies and series, and feature films. He has studied the producer side of the film and television business, and received the Gerri Cook Memorial Award for the Most Promising Producer; and is a producer of television, feature and new media projects. June 8, 2019