THE TEAM
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR & FOUNDER
ISAAC HIROTSU WOOFTER is a New York based filmmaker. He wrote the screenplay for Steven Seagal’s action movie, THE BUSHIDO BUTCHER, for Shadow Box Pictures and Aldamisa Entertainment. Shortly after he was hired to write NOSH, a Jewish comedy. He is currently in post production for BOUND, a feature starring Jessica Pimentel and Ramin Karimloo.
His screenplays/films have won or placed 18 times in 13 festivals including: The Austin Film Festival, Dances with Films, Page International Awards, Richmond International Film Festival, Screencraft, Scriptapalooza, JumpStart, Creative World Awards, The Script Lab, Filmmatic Screenplay Awards, Scriptation Showcase, IFIPG, and The World Series of Screenwriting.
As a director, Isaac’s written, produced, and directed multiple book trailers for New York Times Best Selling Authors.
Isaac received his MFA from Columbia University and studies at the Jacob Krueger Studio.
CURRENT AND PAST PROJECTS
LAST SHOT (FEATURE) - 2025 (Developmental)
When a minor league baseball player realizes he’s running out of chances to make it to the big leagues, he's forced to go against his moral compass and take performance enhancing drugs, an act that ultimately destroys the only other thing as important to him as baseball: his family.
TURF (PILOT) - 2025 (Developmental)
Amid LA’s brutal Asian gang wars, a runaway Japanese teen becomes a high-ranking member in the Chinese mafia–while also acting as a police informant for the gang crimes division of the LAPD. With mounting guilt after years of hiding the truth from everyone he loves and wanting to reconnect with the family he once abandoned, he searches for a way out...a way out that will require him to reveal the secrets that have kept him alive.
BOUND (FEATURE) - 2024 (Festival Run)
In order to escape her overprotective drug-dealing stepfather, a young introvert flees to NYC with her pet pocket squirrel. After successfully reinventing herself, she realizes she must confront her dark past, to truly be free.
CHAIN OF GOLD (BOOK TRAILER) - 2020
The brand new novel from #1 New York Times best selling author.