Emmanuel Oberg is a screenwriter, author and creative consultant with more than twenty-five years of experience in the Film and TV industry. After selling a feature film screenplay to Warner Bros, he has been commissioned as a writer by StudioCanal, Working Title / Universal, Gold Circle and Film4.
Emmanuel worked recently as a consultant on feature films and TV series developed by Keplerfilm, Deal Production, O’Sullivan Productions, Danu Media, Storm Group, Topkapi, TeamTo and IBC/Kavac Films. This includes Marco Bellocchio’s “The Traitor” (IBC/Kavac Films), in official competition at Cannes in 2019 and Maurice Trouwborst’s “Captain Nova” (keplerfilm), multiple award winner at Cinekid 2021, including best children film.
In 2018, Emmanuel worked with BAFTA nominated writer David Joss Buckley (“A Mind to Kill”, “Hinterland”) on the eight part TV Series “Cold Courage”, an international coproduction between Finland, Belgium, Ireland and Iceland. Based on the bestselling novels by Pekka Hiltunen, this political thriller premiered in 2020 on Viaplay in Scandinavia and was released in the U.S. in 2021 by AMC+.
Emmanuel is the founder and director of consulting and training company Screenplay Unlimited and the author of “Screenwriting Unchained”, an Amazon bestseller on script development introducing his innovative Story-Type Method®. The second volume in the series, “The Screenwriter’s Troubleshooter”, ranked #2 in TV Screenwriting on Amazon U.S. in July 2020. A third volume, “Writing a Successful TV Series”, was published in June 2023 and became an instant bestseller in TV Screenwriting in the U.S. and in the UK.
Emmanuel also runs an internationally acclaimed Advanced Development Workshop and add-on modules on thriller, comedy, animation and TV Series writing. His clients include ACE Producers, Screen Ireland, Creative & Cultural Industries Skillnet, the Netherlands Film Fund, Creative England and Creative Europe as well as studios and independent producers. He has also recently released two interactive online courses on film and TV development.
For more information about Emmanuel’s books, courses or workshops and his training and consulting services, please visit www.screenplayunlimited.com