Jeff Bollow is an actor, writer, director, producer, author, public speaker, and film festival organizer. In 1996, after ten years of moderate success as an actor in his native Los Angeles, Bollow migrated to New Zealand, and then to Australia, where he founded the Screenplay Development Centre, authored the book Writing FAST: How to Write Anything with Lightning Speed, and produced and directed the ATOM Award-winning Making Fantastic Short Films for schools, before returning to New Zealand to co-found the Big Mountain Short Film Festival and co-author the iLife 08 book for Apple and Peachpit Press. -Wikipedia