Biografia
Genine Amada Tillotson is the director of Harvard Square Script Writers (HSSW) and is the principal of Magic Lantern Multimedia LLC, based in Newton MA. She has been writing, producing and directing award-winning video and multimedia projects for over 25 years.
Ms. Tillotson grew up in Randolph, NJ and was a bona fide Jersey Girl until heading to Cambridge MA for graduate school. She fell in love with Massachusetts and has remained there for much of her life. Now, she is also a proud member of the Sherman Oaks, CA community, having gone bi-coastal.
At the beginning of her career Ms. Tillotson worked for Action for Children's Television as a development intern, helped outline a TV series at ABC with Emmy-award winning writer, Jeff Kindley which evolved into After School Specials, and wrote treatments for Harvey Weinstein at his earliest venture Weinstein Skyfield Productions.
She has written and directed programs supported by the National Science Foundation and US Dept. of Ed. and has created an assortment of video projects for broadcast, web and large-scale events.
Her corporate clients have included Mattel; Fisher Price; the Boston Museum of Science; Silver Burdett and Ginn; The San Francisco Exploratorium; Sacred Heart University; MIT's CSAIL; Harvard University; National Geographic, Mass General Hospital and Partners Healthcare, to name a few. Her interactive multimedia exhibits have appeared in over 24 museums around the world.
She was the uncredited script doctor of a variety of PBS science programs and the IMAX film, Coral Reef Adventure.
Her awards include a Silver New York Film Festival, a Gold Muse Award, three Gold Nebbys, including two "Best Overall Achievement," and three ITVA Gold awards, among others.
Ms. Tillotson has been a guest speaker at NAB (National Association of Broadcasters) and has lectured at Northeastern University, Lesley University, Harvard University and Emerson College.
In 2012 Ms. Tillotson ceased all efforts in the corporate industrial arena and assumed directorship of Harvard Square Script Writers, one of the oldest professional script writing organizations in the country, focused entirely on narrative projects.
In 2016 Ms. Tillotson was the executive director of the Different Faces, Different Voices Film Festival in Cambridge, MA featuring the Flicks4Chicks short film contest.
She is also currently the host of the HSSW-sponsored web series Second Chance Cinema, which looks at "The Best Moves You've Never Seen."
Ms. Tillotson is about to release her own comedy web series "Next Great Hire" and offers script review services to interested screenwriters.
She is a member of Women in Film and Video, NE Chapter, Film Fatales, and Harvardwood.
Ms. Tillotson holds a BA in English and Psychology from Rutgers College and a Masters and CAS from Harvard University in Educational Media.
