Jeff Peck is an award-winning screenwriter, producer and author now dividing his time between three continents. His work in television has received widespread recognition, including numerous AFI, ATOM and Television Society of Australia awards, the International Pater Award, the United Nations Media Award, as well as distinctions at Prix Jeunesse, Prix Danube, the Golden Cairo Awards and the Chicago International Festival of Children's Films. For the big screen, Peck wrote the Christmas feature, "Bushfire Moon," based on his original story. Directed by George Miller, starring Dee Wallace Stone and John Waters and released by Village Roadshow, the film has now become a holiday classic. After its theatrical release, "Bushfire Moon" was distributed on video (as "Miracle Down Under") by Buena Vista, and screened as a Disney Premiere Feature on America's Disney Channel (as "The Christmas Visitor"). It has also been screened repeatedly on PBS's Wonderworks and continues to be shown around the world in many other markets.

Peck's original two-hour feature for television, "The Gift" (co-written with director Paul Cox) and the "Lift Off!" series, for which he was head writer for live action drama segments, were both international successes. He also served as co-head writer for the much-acclaimed "Crash Zone 2" series for the Disney Channel and Australia's Seven Network.

Peck served as Program Manager for the Australian Children’s Television Foundation during the period of its greatest successes, including the anthology series, "Winners" and "Touch the Sun," the top-rated fantasy/comedy series, "Round the Twist" and the 26-part "Sky Trackers" science/drama series, based on his original concept. Peck acted as series producer for "Kaboodle," a 12-part anthology series for the ABC that has won multiple awards, and co-produced the six-part docu-drama series "Seen but not Heard" for the Seven Network.

Peck is the author of several books, including the novelization of Bushfire Moon, The Torch Singer (as J. William Penn), two collections of stories: Double Take and Other Stories; The Wizards of Solmar and Other Stories; and two children's picture books, The Secret Life of Trees and What Does Daffy Dugong Do Wrong? He also wrote the original concepts for two other novels, published as The Gift and Sky Trackers.

Peck spent a year helping to develop new projects for CTW in New York before moving to France, where he produced a 28-part series for the United Nations on the work of the Special Representatives of the Secretary-General - the men and women entrusted with the international organization's most difficult peacekeeping and peace-making assignments.

Peck is now devoting all his time to his writing novels and screenplays for the international market where, as an Australian-American dual national with a working visa for France, he has an unusually wide range of interests, experience and opportunities.

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