Dan Ochwat

Dan Ochwat’s a graduate of Northwestern’s Writing for Screen + Stage MFA program, which focuses on writing for Film, TV and Theatre. He has optioned screenplays to Winghead Films and Gold Line Films in Los Angeles. His work has earned several semifinal and quarterfinal placements in the Nicholl Fellowship, PAGE Awards, Script Pipeline, Sundance Lab and others. Dan wrote and directed a short film based on his feature screenplay FORKED, which screened at the Boston International Film Festival and Chicago's Incubator Film Festival. The film is based on his optioned feature thriller of the same name.
Dan’s latest project is TOGETHER AT ZERO, a romantic short film based on a TV series he’s working on. The short film earned an honorable mention at the 2022 Chicago International REEL Film Festival. 
His first short film LOVE VS. PORN (writer, co-director) played at the Chicago International REEL Film Festival and Incubator Fest. He taught "The Foundations of Screenwriting" at Northwestern as a graduate assistant.
Dan interned at International Creative Management, assisting the feature literary department. He also worked at MGM, assisting the creative development executives and writing coverage.
Dan lives in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of Chicago. IMDb