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Joseph O'Brien has worked extensively in film, television and comics, as well as published fiction and non-fiction. A produced screenwriter and film producer, the Canadian native shot his first film as a young boy growing up in Toronto. He broke into the industry at the age of 26 with the production of his screenplay for the thriller Papertrail, starring the late Chris Penn and Michael Madsen (Reservoir Dogs). The film was released internationally by Lions Gate Films in 1998. Tapped by Fireworks Entertainment to resurrect the popular Robocop franchise, he developed and wrote four feature-length movies-for-television collectively known as Robocop: Prime Directives. The large-scale production became hugely successful upon broadcast on the SciFi Channel, Space: The Imagination Station and other networks worldwide in 2001. As producer of the controversial NFB-funded animated short Hoverboy, he accepted the coveted Audience Prize at the 2000 Digital Image Festival. The film drew enormous viewership at its world premiere on iFilm, and is presently being developed as both a comic book and a television series. He enjoys a devoted international following for his noted work with the popular horror magazines Rue Morgue and Fangoria. His short horror fiction appears in two award-winning anthologies (hailed as “definitive” by best-selling author and filmmaker Clive Barker), Queer Fear and Queer Fear II. In 2006 he was a member of the inaugural jury for the Toronto After Dark Film Festival, celebrating the best in international cult cinema. His first published work in comics, Revolution on the Planet of the Apes, garnered him a nomination for the prestigious Shuster Award (named in honour of Superman creator Joe Shuster) as Outstanding Writer 2006. It was also named one of the ten best comic book series of the year by the Scripps Howard News Service, who hailed it as "a brilliantly constructed story of human rights in the face of social change". He continues to develop a slate of films, comics and multimedia projects.
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