Joe Frankel

Joe Frankel is a Toronto-based filmmaker and the founder of Imaginary Courtyard content agency.   He has worked as a Hollywood story editor for Universal Studios, The Mark Gordon Company and others and he served for six years as the head of video content at Cineplex.  Joe’s screenwriting credits include a TV adaptation of “The Phantom” comics and the upcoming animated comedy, “Steve Guttenberg: Frenchman.”   When Joe isn’t writing, he produces “behind-the-scenes” documentaries for the movie studios and lectures on film at various schools and community centres across North America. His lectures cover a variety of subjects including: screenwriting, storytelling & story structure, the art of movie comedy, and the works of popular filmmakers like Steven Spielberg & Alfred Hitchcock.