Ghostwriter the Film
The Team
Tim Miller
Director/Producer
Tim is making his feature film debut as director with Ghostwriter. Past work includes the short film Tightheads as writer/producer/director and as writer & actor on Into The Wake, Jell-ohh Lady and Draggage with past awards at Aspen Shortfest, Palm Springs, New Orleans, Lighthouse, Tupelo, Wisconsin, the Industry Choice Award at Dances With Films and notable screenings with DGA Los Angeles and American Cinematheque. Over the years, Tim has worked as an actor, writer and producer of theater in Chicago and New York with Congo Square, Irish Rep, LeeSaar, Jackalope, Victory Gardens, Artistic Home, Jeff Award winners Rosemary and Only The Sound (Chicago Dramatists), and three years in the early 90s at iO with The Lost Yetis. He lives in the Chicago area with his wife and three sons.
Jim Lynch
Screenwriter
Jim Lynch was a young prosecutor when his Dad passed away of a heart attack. The eulogy he wrote and delivered moved him to start writing, quickly settling on drama as his chosen medium. He's been writing for about 20 years, many of his plays have been produced, mainly in Chicago. His play The Tallest Man was nominated for an Equity Jeff Award for Best New Work. CCX, a searing urban drama based on his work as a criminal prosecutor, received widespread critical acclaim. His play The Cheek, an Irish family drama, sold out for many weeks in Chicago and was also produced in County Mayo, Ireland. The Cheek was his second production to travel to Ireland. Jim produced numerous one act festivals as Director of New Work at The Artistic Home Theatre in Chicago. He adapted his own play for the short Murphy's Law, a film by Dean Berdusis. Harold Ramis partnered with Jim to try to produce the television series he wrote with Greg Daly, Nicked. Jim is married with three kids and continues to toil in the terrible wonderful world of criminal prosecution.
Sanghoon Lee
Cinematographer
A native of South Korea, Sanghoon Lee moved to the U.S. to attend the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1999, where he pursued his MFA in Filmmaking. He has been working as a director, producer and cinematographer in Chicago's independent film community ever since.
Sanghoon has completed several award-winning dramatic features including SECOND MOON (producer), CHICAGO HEIGHTS (producer/cinematographer) and HOGTOWN (producer/cinematographer). Credits also include feature documentaries EDIT (producer), TODAY WE SAW THE FACE OF GOD (producer), and BREAKFAST AT INA'S (producer/cinematographer). Most recently, Sanghoon acted as director of photography on the short films FUGUE and BIRDER. His feature length directorial debut BANANA SEASON is currently on the festival circuit.
JC Farris
Producer
JC Farris is a Chicago based independent director, producer, and screenwriter. She has written numerous short and feature-length screenplays in addition to being the director/producer of several short films, web series episodes, and sketch comedy shows.
Her feature-length screenplay “Dear Janie” won a Best Independent Screenplay award at River Bend Film Festival. Her short film “We Hate Bob” was in over a dozen film festivals winning 2 audience choice awards, a Best Writer award and a Best Director award.
She has worked for many arts organizations and festivals including as Industry Programs Manager/Screener for the Chicago International Film Festival, Associate Producer for the Chicago Improv Festival and Chicago Podcast Festival, and as Producer/Screener for the Chicago Underground Film Festival.
She is a member of the IFA Chicago/SAG-AFTRA table read planning committee and a script analyst for a popular online screenwriting platform.
