Jewerl Ross

Jewerl Ross is a manager of directors and screenwriters at his own firm: Silent R Management.

Some of SILENT R MANAGEMENT’s director clients include: Academy Award winner Barry Jenkins, the writer and director of Moonlight for A24 and Brad Pitt’s Plan B. Moonlight was nominated for 8 Academy Awards and won 3 (Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor). Barry is currently in production on If Beale Street Could Talk for Megan Ellison’s Annapurna Pictures. Brad Buecker, executive producer and director on American Horror Story on FX and executive producer and director on 9-1-1 on Fox, both for Ryan Murphy Television. Buecker is also directing the 9-1-1 pilot. Buecker is currently under an overall deal at Twentieth Century Fox. Buecker’s debut feature Juvenile, starring Blake Jenner and Melissa Benoist, premieres at the 2017 Fantastic Fest. Stephen Piet & Erik Crary’s film Uncle John premiered in competition at the SXSW and Piet directed and Crary produced all six episodes of season 2 of Channel Zero for Syfy and UCP. Piet & Crary are currently directing and producing an original pilot they wrote for Gaumont Television. Avant Garde filmmaker Patrick Wang’s film The Grief of Others premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and SXSW. Wang is currently in post-production on his next film, A Bread Factory.

Some of SILENT R MANAGEMENT’s writer clients include: Matthew Aldrich who wrote Coco for Pixar/Disney which was release to rave review (97% on Rotten Tomatoes) and has made over $700 million in the worldwide box office. Our Lady J, who is currently a writer and producer on Transparent for Amazon Studios and Pose for FX and Ryan Murphy Television. Evan Endicott is writing and producing the AMC’s series Into the Badlands and Warrior for Cinemax, Justin Lin and Jonathan Tropper. Hannah Schneider’s original pilot script Homecoming is set up with Twentieth Century Fox Television and executive producer Howard Gordon (Homeland, 24).

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