Erik Carlson

Born and raised in Des Moines, Iowa, I graduated from the University of Iowa in 2012 with a B.A. in English and Cinema and from the Los Angeles branch of the New York Film Academy in 2016 with an M.F.A. in Filmmaking. My thesis project, "A Night at the Movies," won seven awards on the festival circuit, including Best Short Screenplay at the San Diego International Kids Film Festival. My love for film developed as a kid when my grandma introduced me to the comedy of Laurel and Hardy, The Little Rascals, and Abbott and Costello, and I would later watch films like Indiana Jones, Star Wars, and Back to the Future. As a screenwriter, my favorite genres are Adventure (particularly pulp and swashbucklers), science-fiction, and fantasy, and I hope eventually to try mystery, Western, and horror.