josh barkey

I grew up on his parents’ mission compound in the Amazon Basin of Peru, South America, then paid for an English degree by hand planting half a million trees in the cut-blocks of northern Canada.  Now I live in a shed in North Carolina, where  I write everything from screenplays to novels to the occasional post on this site, paint, and even dabble in music-making.  I caught the film bug working as an extra on productions in and around Vancouver, and since moving to North Carolina I've produced six shorts and one feature from my own scripts. My film and TV scripts have earned me a finalist spot in the Academy of Motion Pictures' Nicholl Fellowship, have won the Page twice, got me selected for a Sundance Screenwriter's Intensive, and have placed in most of the other major contests. Producer Peter Riche (SOUTHPAW) is currently out with one of my scripts for packaging, and I am currently in pre-production on my first microbudget feature film as a director.  So far i...