Steven Friedman

Screenwriter and Author

Delft, Netherlands

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About Steven

I'm an award-winning screenwriter, author, and copywriter. After studying Communications / Creative Writing, I started my career in advertising, writing numerous ads, commercials, corporate films and interactive productions for clients including Heineken, Microsoft, Bowers & Wilkins and Mercedes. The first short film I wrote, the satirical IT’S GREAT TO INTEGRATE (2002), won a pan-European film contest by CanalPlus. My second short, the World War 2 drama THE FIRST DAY, was selected for the International Film Festival Rotterdam, where it premiered in 2004. After that, I worked as a staff writer on the daily drama series GOOD TIMES, BAD TIMES, produced by Endemol Entertainment, and continued to write screenplays for short and feature films.

Currently, I'm the co-creator and head writer for the supernatural crime drama ECHOES for 2CFILM and ZDF Studios, which was selected for the MIA Market Pitching Forum 2019, as well as the limited thriller series NO GOOD DEED for Cineflix Rights, which was a finalist for the C21 Drama Series Pitch 2020. Both shows are currently in development. I'm also the writer/creator of the YA fantasy/horror/action series THE NIGHT WATCH, which won the 2024 Development Award for Outstanding Drama Series at the MIA Market in Rome.

Gender:
Male

Hair:
Bald

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Other

Ethnicity:
Mixed

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The Night Watch (2025)
Television by Continent Studios Writer, Creator Cornelia Kemp, a street smart 17-year-old foster child, is recruited to join a secretive organization known as The Night Watch, which has kept the city of Amsterdam safe from the forces of Evil for centuries.
No Good Deed (2022)
Television by Continent Studios / Cineflix Rights (Drama and Thriller) Writer, Creator A socially engaged journalist, living with her husband and children in the outskirts of Berlin, has her convictions put to the test when she comes to suspect that the Syrian refugee she invited into her family home might be a terrorist.
Echoes (2021)
Television by David Berron (and others) (Crime, Drama and Mystery) Writer, Co-Creator A brilliant and pragmatic female Europol analyst teams up with a broad-minded young priest to investigate puzzling cases all over Europe that are linked to local folk tales, uncovering the truth about her own dark past in the process.
Upstairs (2018)
Film (short) by Edwin Nikkels (Horror) Writer What evil lurks behind the facades of Amsterdam’s canal mansions? You’ll find out in Upstairs, directed by Edwin Nikkels.
Game +31 (2008)
Series by Hugo Keijzer (Comedy) Writer Game+31 is an online comedy series about the exploits of a group of slackers working for a games magazine.
The Tenants (2007)
Film (short) by Silvain Hooglander (Horror) Writer, Composer As a young couple moves into their recently purchased old farmhouse, they soon discover they might not be the only ones inside.
Good Times, Bad Times (2003 - 2004)
Television by Reg Watson (Drama) Staff Writer A group of friends and family lives in a fictional Dutch town called Meerdijk.
The First Day (2004)
Film (short) by Silvain Hooglander (Drama) Writer While coping with the difficult birth of their first child, a young, strongly religious couple find their lives forever changed by a cataclysmic event.
It's Great to Integrate! (2002)
Film (short) by Silvain Hooglander (Comedy) Writer A dark and humorous way of teaching foreign immigrants, how to integrate "to its fullest" in their host country!

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Awards

MIA Development Award for Outstanding Drama Series for The Night Watch
(2024)
Grand Prix du Jury Canal Plus for It's Great to Integrate
(2002)
Winner Dutch Short Film Competition Canal Plus for It's Great to Integrate
(2002)

Education

Fontys University
(1993-1998)