- Born
- Nickname
- Sab John
- Screenwriter - Actor - Producer - Story Coach
Sab John Edathattil, is one of the leading screenwriting and storytelling voices of South India, especially in Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu film industry. He is Chief Mentor at ScreenWrite.In, India's only Screenwriting Studio he founded in 2009.
He is Professor and Head of Screenwriting at L V Prasad Film and Television Academy, and Loyola LIVE, Chennai. Also, John is a jury at FICCI Frames Awards, Mumbai since 2008.
Sab John Edathattil has also donned other roles in the film industry as actor, director and producer. His commendable role in "Kuruthippunal" as Narasimhan has won him laurels for his outstanding delivery of acting performance, in 1996. Presently, he is acting in a key role as 'Bike Tuner' in Hero (Telugu) directed by Anand Annamalai, and Tamil movie (untitled) directed by Karthick Naren.
Born on 30 December, 1958 in Alappuzha Sab John Edathattil graduated in Commerce and later majored in professional accounting, though Sab John Edathattil aligned himself with screenwriting at an early stage of his career. His screenwriting took off after scripting a remarkable Malayalam super-hit film named 'Chanakyan' starring Padmashri Kamal Hassan and Urmila Matondkar, triggering John as a screenwriter with unique narrative style into the South Indian film industry.
Sab John Edathattil prefers to spend his spare time working with young aspiring writers in India and propagates professional screenwriting through his much acclaimed workshops and master classes over Film Academies and Universities in India. In his Master-Workshops, John presents the unique ways of creating the strong-walls of a captivating screenplay and how he resolves screenwriting problems, citing his own varying films starring leading actors in the industry.
John is recently involved in four mainstream-movie-screenplays and three web-series content of four different Indian regional languages. He also conducts training for corporate executives, university professors and students of professional courses on story-based-learning-teaching techniques and scenario-planning practices.
- IMDb mini biography by: Leo Retchagan
- SpouseTeres John(1998 - present) (5 children)
- John was Jury Member for the FICCI BAF Awards 2008 and 2009, and 2010 Mumbai.
- Organized a curriculum, class models and assessment criteria for the Screenwriting Course for a filmmaking school - SAE. Conducted many classes and crash courses for aspiring screenwriters.
- John is the Founder Chairman and Mentor at Cheeseflicks Pvt Ltd, an organized production house for feature movies and shorts.
- Also mentors aspiring screenwriters the professional skills of writing a script for the screen through a brand - ScreenWrite.In - India's only Screenwriters' Studio.
- Chief Mentor for IIT Workshop (2012) on screenwriting.
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