Meet Our 2016 TV/Digital Division Winners

JARED RONIN – SPEC DRAMA: BETTER CALL SAUL “DOMINGO”

Jared Ronin began writing scripts after reading A Streetcar Named Desire at his Tennessee high school. His work drew him to New York where he graduated with a BFA in Dramatic Writing from Purchase College in 2009. After writing commercials for various companies around the country, television production brought Jared to Los Angeles where he currently pens one-hour dramas.

ARUN NARAYANAN – ORIGINAL COMEDY: ADVENTURES OF ASH & OWEN

When he’s not writing, Arun works freelance as a video editor and as a Content Tagger for The Walt Disney Company. He directed the short films CELLULOID DREAMS, which aired on PBS’s Shorts Showcase in 2013, and FALSE WITNESS, which will air on ShortsHD in 2016. Most recently, he produced the South Africa-set feature-length documentary TAKING STOCK, which will have its festival premiere this summer.

Arun received an MFA in Film & TV Production from the USC School of Cinematic Arts in 2014.

DANIEL FOX – ORIGINAL DRAMA: ARKHAM P.D.

Daniel Fox went from high school to the Vancouver Film School just months after Kevin Smith bailed from the very same establishment, making Daniel one of the few people in the world who has seen Mr. Smith’s student documentary. Daniel is pretty sure that means that he is super interesting and that you should get to know him.

Vancouver was in one of its busy seasons with multiple television shows being filmed there. Being a big fan of this brand new science fiction show called “The X-Files” Daniel was of course just about the only person in his class who didn’t stumble across one of their shoots. He did however manage to get kicked in the shin by Fox Mulder’s little sister… so there’s that.

Upon graduation Daniel crewed various shorts, music videos, television shows, and films in Vancouver and Toronto. He has held every position from Craft Service to Location Manager and back again. However somewhere in this time he realized that carrying C-stands was not scratching the creative itch, and he finally turned to what he thinks he should have been doing all along – writing.

Since then Daniel has had a feature film script place as a Top Ten Runner-Up at Scriptapalooza, in the top 10% at Nicholl’s, and nab him a spot at Cinestory’s features retreat. He has also written a number of books over the years, one of which ranked as number one in Amazon. For about three days. In Germany. In a sub-sub-sub category. Still, he was pretty excited to see his name above such luminaries as Stephen Fry and George R.R. Martin.

DANIEL MENDOZA – DIGITAL SERIES: NUESTRA VOICE

Danny Mendoza is a Cuban-American storyteller from Miami, Florida. He is trained as an actor, writer, director, and producer – and he works in those capacities in film, television, digital media, commercials, and theatre. He is based out of Miami and New York.