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In an industry where intuition meets expertise, First Read’s team of industry experts bridges the gap between technology and cinematic artistry. Our proprietary AI-driven technology will help you translate your secret sauce into a powerful algorithm, allowing you to automate the sifting so you can focus more of your team’s time and energy on the creative aspects of the business.

FOUNDER & CEO

BENJAMIN CHRISTOPHER is a screenwriter and developer who lives in Los Angeles, CA with his family. Originally from a small town in Wisconsin, Ben studied Screenwriting, Fiction Writing, and Producing at Columbia College Chicago, as well as Showrunning at UCLA. He’s been coding for over a decade and has built custom web apps and AI-based applications for various agencies and celebrity clients.

As a writer, he specializes in action-driven stories and sci-fi thrillers. His scripts have won or placed in the Academy Nicholl Fellowship, PAGE Screenwriting Awards, Final Draft Big Break Screenwriting Contest and Blue Cat Screenplay Contest, among others. He is represented by Kaplan / Perrone Entertainment.