Jacques Edeline

Jacques Edeline is a Haitian-American screenwriter with a BA in history from Emory University and an MFA in screenwriting from Chapman University's Dodge College of Film and Media Arts. His feature script Homegrown was named to the 2015 Blacklist and has ImageMovers and Jeremy Bolt attached to produce. He sold a pitch to USA network in 2017 to adapt Alex de Campi's No Mercy comic series for television. Split Gas, his feature debut as writer/director - an indie film shot in 11 days for $5000 - screened at five film festivals and won the audience award for best feature at the Big Bear Lake International Film festival and the award for best first feature at the Columbia Gorge International Film Festival. Jacques teaches creative writing to incarcerated juveniles in East L.A. through the non-profit Inside Out Writers and previously curated a weekly film series for students at Fairfax High School as an alternative to disciplinary suspension. He has dual citizenship in the U.S. and France and has lived in Europe and Central America.