Alexander G. Ross
- Producer
Educated at the universities of Heidelberg, Cambridge and the ESCP
business school in Paris.
Alex is fluent in four languages. He attended the London International Film School where he became student president.
He started his filmmaking career by working for Merchant/ivory productions.
After moving to LA he spent a year in the M.G.M story department, and also worked as a story analyst for Sally Field, Dick Clark and others.
Subsequently he became an agent at the Gray/Goodman agency which represented Quentin Tarantino, Christopher De Vore (Elephant Man) & Mardik Martin (Raging Bull).
He subsequently founded Fortis Entertainment, a management company, and discovered Andrew Niccol who wrote and produced "The Truman Show" and directed "Gattaca", "Simone", "Lords of War" etc.
Sales of screenplays & books by writers discovered by the company having reached $8 Million, Alex sold Fortis Entertainment to Sandra Bullock and spent the rest of that year teaching at various universities, film schools and colleges in the UK & US.
His interest in fostering and developing new writing talent led to him being asked to become a consultant to the National Academy of Writing of Great Britain, (headed by Lord Bragg).
In 1999 he founded www.WriteMovies.com which has become an important entry point to the industry for new talent not just in the US but UK, France and Germany.
In 2004 his company started off an internship program for British students to come and spend eight weeks working in the industry in Los Angeles.
In addition to having been interviewed on prime time network T.V. by Dateline N.B.C, his career has been covered by: The Hollywood Reporter, Daily Variety, The Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker, Reuters, Newsday, The London Times, Daily Mail, The Guardian and others.
Alex became a member of the British Academy (Bafta) in 2004.
He produced the romantic comedy "The List" starring Wayne Brady, Sydney Tamia Poitier, Brad Dourif, Illeana Douglas, Jane Lynch, Tatyana Ali, Flex Alexander, Malcolm Jamal-Warner, Concetta Tomei, Erica Gimpel and Matthew Glave. The movie was acquired by Warner Bros. The studio asked Alex to produce three more movies.
His company rossWWmedia, Corp. is presently producing Academy Nominee Habib Zargarpour's "Squadron" (2016) and has several projects in active development. To include the Carolyn Kras award winning screenplay: "Magnetic", to be produced in association with Diane Nabatoff and directed by Jon Amiel in 2017.
He was recently appointed as an expert to the EU's: Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) MEDIA Program.
In 2015 he launched the media I.T. startup: www.ZapToBuy.com which is one of very few companies to have received UK government R&D funding. The technology enables the branding of all product in advertising, film and TV by making the images inter-active with smart-phones and will change production finance for film and TV programmes via this enhanced form of product placement. In late 2016 the company struck a deal with the French government to cover it's ongoing R&D costs and is in the process of moving to France.
."Alex: It is great you and your super impressive team are building this." Google, Mountain View (CA)
In 2016 Alex was honoured to be asked to join the British Guild of Entrepreneurs by Sir Paul Judge and has since become a freeman of the Guild.
."Alex: You are doing incredible things as an entrepreneur and I wish you all the very best of success. Borys." Prof Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, vice-chancellor of Cambridge University
Apart from teaching a postgraduate course at university, Alex is a published doctoral researcher and rowing coach at Cambridge University.
He is represented by TalentScout Management of Beverly Hills.
Alex is fluent in four languages. He attended the London International Film School where he became student president.
He started his filmmaking career by working for Merchant/ivory productions.
After moving to LA he spent a year in the M.G.M story department, and also worked as a story analyst for Sally Field, Dick Clark and others.
Subsequently he became an agent at the Gray/Goodman agency which represented Quentin Tarantino, Christopher De Vore (Elephant Man) & Mardik Martin (Raging Bull).
He subsequently founded Fortis Entertainment, a management company, and discovered Andrew Niccol who wrote and produced "The Truman Show" and directed "Gattaca", "Simone", "Lords of War" etc.
Sales of screenplays & books by writers discovered by the company having reached $8 Million, Alex sold Fortis Entertainment to Sandra Bullock and spent the rest of that year teaching at various universities, film schools and colleges in the UK & US.
His interest in fostering and developing new writing talent led to him being asked to become a consultant to the National Academy of Writing of Great Britain, (headed by Lord Bragg).
In 1999 he founded www.WriteMovies.com which has become an important entry point to the industry for new talent not just in the US but UK, France and Germany.
In 2004 his company started off an internship program for British students to come and spend eight weeks working in the industry in Los Angeles.
In addition to having been interviewed on prime time network T.V. by Dateline N.B.C, his career has been covered by: The Hollywood Reporter, Daily Variety, The Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker, Reuters, Newsday, The London Times, Daily Mail, The Guardian and others.
Alex became a member of the British Academy (Bafta) in 2004.
He produced the romantic comedy "The List" starring Wayne Brady, Sydney Tamia Poitier, Brad Dourif, Illeana Douglas, Jane Lynch, Tatyana Ali, Flex Alexander, Malcolm Jamal-Warner, Concetta Tomei, Erica Gimpel and Matthew Glave. The movie was acquired by Warner Bros. The studio asked Alex to produce three more movies.
His company rossWWmedia, Corp. is presently producing Academy Nominee Habib Zargarpour's "Squadron" (2016) and has several projects in active development. To include the Carolyn Kras award winning screenplay: "Magnetic", to be produced in association with Diane Nabatoff and directed by Jon Amiel in 2017.
He was recently appointed as an expert to the EU's: Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) MEDIA Program.
In 2015 he launched the media I.T. startup: www.ZapToBuy.com which is one of very few companies to have received UK government R&D funding. The technology enables the branding of all product in advertising, film and TV by making the images inter-active with smart-phones and will change production finance for film and TV programmes via this enhanced form of product placement. In late 2016 the company struck a deal with the French government to cover it's ongoing R&D costs and is in the process of moving to France.
."Alex: It is great you and your super impressive team are building this." Google, Mountain View (CA)
In 2016 Alex was honoured to be asked to join the British Guild of Entrepreneurs by Sir Paul Judge and has since become a freeman of the Guild.
."Alex: You are doing incredible things as an entrepreneur and I wish you all the very best of success. Borys." Prof Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, vice-chancellor of Cambridge University
Apart from teaching a postgraduate course at university, Alex is a published doctoral researcher and rowing coach at Cambridge University.
He is represented by TalentScout Management of Beverly Hills.