Bill Kelman

Part of the ForLan team for over 10 years, Bill is an experienced filmmaker and film executive in distribution, acquisitions and development who has sold film projects as a writer and producer to various studios; including Warner Brothers, Paramount, New World, German companies Pro-Sieben and RTL and other indie production companies. 

His cult film, “Mortuary Academy” starred Paul Bartel and Mary Woronov for RCA/Columbia.  He has the dubious recognition of having three films in the “Psychotronic Video Guide”. 

He was a judge for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Nicholl Fellowship and has continued working with various screenwriting contests. As a journalist he has been published in the LA Times, Los Angeles Magazine, Millimeter, Fire Island News, Minority Business Report, LA Reader, Los Angeles Herald Examiner. He was at the American Film Institute on a screenwriting fellowship and has a BA from the University of Wisconsin.