Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Timeline
Generic

Daniel Calvisi

San Pedro,CA

Summary

Dynamic and detail-oriented professional with a proven ability to work independently while consistently meeting deadlines. Passionate about the entertainment industry, with a commitment to tracking trends and developments at the intersection of film, technology platforms, AI, and financial markets. Exceptional interpersonal skills foster collaboration and teamwork, and a strong analytical mindset and experience with gathering data and integrating it into different environments ensures precision in all tasks.

Overview

2026
2026
years of professional experience

Work History

Story Analyst, Writing Coach

Act Four Screenplays
2007 - Current
  • Teaching and training amateur and professional screenwriters. Clients have included Emmy and Oscar winners, studio-level writers and producers, name actors, award-winning filmmakers and television executives.
  • Deep analysis of features, pilots and shorts, with story notes, copy-editing and suggestions for fixes.

Author

Story Maps
2015 - 2026
  • Authored multiple best-selling titles on screenwriting and navigating the entertainment industry, including Story Maps: TV Drama, Story Maps: How to Write a Great Screenplay and Story Maps: The Films of Christopher Nolan.
  • Endorsements from writers of Orange is the New Black, Bones, Masters of Sex and Little Mosque on the Prairie.

Webinar Presenter

Writer's Digest (AIM Media)
01.2016 - 12.2025
  • Created, researched, wrote and presented webinars on topics related to storytelling for film and television.
  • Researched industry topics and tracked data, including box-office performance, studio franchise score cards, streaming ratings, awards tallys, spec sales, and more.
  • Gathered data and images and integrated into spreadsheets, graphs, charts and detailed PowerPoint decks.

Writer

Script Magazine (AIM Media)
05.2013 - 12.2025
  • Researched and wrote articles examining storytelling for film and television from an industry-centric perspective.

Producer & Host

Story Maps Podcast
2011 - 2018
  • Researched, wrote, co-hosted, edited and distributed audio and video podcast that offered detailed structural analyses of films and television.
  • Distributed and archived on multiple online platforms. Utilized metadata and social tagging strategy to maximize reach and engagement.

Digital Content Editor

Telematic Dan
2010 - 2017
  • Researched and wrote industry-focused articles for digital distribution.
  • Produced and cataloged red carpet interview clips, distributed via YouTube and embedded on a WordPress-based site for structured archival and reference, maintaining consistent metadata and reference links. Interview subjects included Guillermo Del Toro, Walton Goggins, Noah Hawley, Britt Lower and Kiernan Shipka.

Education

B.F.A. - Film and Television

New York University, Tisch School of The Arts

Skills

  • Research, data entry, metadata management
  • Website administration, CMS, Wordpress, CSS, HTML
  • MS Excel, Word, PowerPoint
  • Google Sheets, Google Docs
  • copy-editing, video editing
  • AI text, imagery and generative video
  • teaching, training, coaching, marketing, advertising, producing, directing, video editing, graphic design, Adobe Suite, Microsoft suite, Excel spreadsheets, Final Cut Pro, Avid, Capcut, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Substack

Timeline

Webinar Presenter

Writer's Digest (AIM Media)
01.2016 - 12.2025

Writer

Script Magazine (AIM Media)
05.2013 - 12.2025

Story Analyst, Writing Coach

Act Four Screenplays
2007 - Current

Author

Story Maps
2015 - 2026

Producer & Host

Story Maps Podcast
2011 - 2018

Digital Content Editor

Telematic Dan
2010 - 2017

B.F.A. - Film and Television

New York University, Tisch School of The Arts