Dark of kNight (adaptation)

JZ Murdock is a multi-award-winning screenwriter, filmmaker, and author whose work bridges true crime, horror, and psychological drama. His screenplay The Teenage Bodyguard, based on his own real-life experience as a 17-year-old who protected a mob murder witness in 1974 Tacoma, has earned 13 international screenwriting awards, including honors from festivals in New York, Greece, Bahrain, and Oman.

Murdock’s storytelling is rooted in authenticity and moral complexity, exploring the human cost of courage and survival under threat.

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JZ Murdock is a multi-award-winning screenwriter, filmmaker, and author whose work bridges true crime, horror, and psychological drama. His screenplay The Teenage Bodyguard, based on his own real-life experience as a 17-year-old who protected a mob murder witness in 1974 Tacoma, has earned 13 international screenwriting awards, including honors from festivals in New York, Greece, Bahrain, and Oman.

Murdock’s storytelling is rooted in authenticity and moral complexity, exploring the human cost of courage and survival under threat. He has collaborated with producer Robert Mitas (Beyond the Reach, Flatliners) on The Teenage Bodyguard, and his other screenplay, Gray and Lover: The Hearth Tales Incident, has earned four additional awards.

A graduate of Western Washington University with a degree in Psychology (Phenomenology), Murdock studied under filmmaker Stanley Kramer in 1984 and worked as a Senior Technical Writer before devoting himself full-time to film and writing. His award-winning films include The Rapping, Gumdrop, Eagles & Crows, and Pvt. Ravel’s Bolero, the latter a 60+ award-winning anti-war filmic poem. All Links: https://linktr.ee/jzmurdock

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