Aram S. Katz

Aram was born and raised in New York, living in the Catskills mountains one mile from the site of the 1969 Woodstock Concert (now the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts). He played three sports in high school, but found his passion in the written arts. He started writing for the school newspaper and literary magazine until he read Tennessee Williams and instantly fell in love with the art of stage and film. He enrolled in Niagara University in 1996, but transferred after a year to be closer to his family. In 2005, after a stint at Northern Arizona University, he graduated from the University of Arizona with BA in History/Political Science. He started teaching and immediately began his Master's Degree at Northern Arizona University, completing it in just four terms while working full time in a classroom. After watching the movie Sicko, he felt if people younger than him could live and work overseas, why can't he do it? So, in 2008, Aram went to Korea. He instantly fell in love with Korean food, culture and the life in Seoul, especially the night life in Hongdae and the foreigner section of Itaewon. A year later, he was in Shijiazhuang, in Hebei in China where he lived until 2011 when he moved to Nanjing. While there, Aram began researching the Rape of Nanking, decided when he started his PhD, it would be his dissertation and began writing a piece based on the 1946 trial of the Japanese soldiers that led the Nanjing Massacre. This was inspired by his work at the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall and after reading Iris Chang's "The Rape of Nanking," in which he discovered there has never been a major American Motion Picture about this event. Aram sought to change this. Since 2008, Aram has lived in Asia (Korea, China and Malaysia). He speaks near fluent Mandarin, married a Chinese national from Danyang and bought a house in Wuxi, a third tier Chinese city between Nanjing and Shanghai. Based out of Jiangsu and Kuala Lumpur, Aram has the unique perspective of living within the Asian market in order to get a feel of what the market holds. He has written fifteen full length screenplays, two TV pilots and four short scripts, all while tailoring his work for both the Asian and Western markets