NATHAN ROSS FREEMAN , Author, Director, was Awarded the 2005 San Francisco Black Film Festival Screenplay Contest Second in Overall Scoring for “Hannah Elias”, Awarded the 1997 North Carolina Arts Council Playwrights Fellowship for “Hannah Elias”, Awarded Third Runner Up, 2005 Great Lakes Film Festival Screenplay Contest for “Geist”, Writer, Director, Producer of the Independent Feature Film, Mr. Bones, the Official Selection of the 2007-2008 San Francisco Black Film, National Black Theatre, Winston-Salem, NC, Southern Appalachia, TN (Best Drama, Editing, Scoring), Indie Memphis, TN, Cackalacky, Charlotte NC, Black Diaspora, Durham, NC Film Festivals. Mr. Bones was awarded 2008 Best Feature at the prestigious Sweet Auburn International Film Festival, Atlanta, GA.

Mr. Bones has been invited to the 15th Anniversary Santa Barbara African Heritage Film Festival, CA (February 2009), and won Best Film of the Year. Mr. Bones has also been invited to the 15th Anniversary Black Harvest Film Festival, Chicago, IL (August 2009) and the Aluta Film Festival, South Africa (February 2009).

Award Winning Script Writer, Filmmaker, Intensive Spoken Word Educator, Nathan Ross Freeman, an Impact Communications Specialist, was awarded 2007 B.E.S.T. Outstanding Faculty as Member of the Intensive Writing Faculty teaching Screenwriting/Playwriting at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Mr. Freeman is the 2008 Visiting Writer at Salem College and teaches Upper Level Screenwriting, Introduction and Intermediate Poetry and Creative Writing. Mr. Freeman is a member of the NC Humanities Speakers Bureau, Founder of Montage Showcase Ensemble, Assegai Film Group, Co-Founder and Artistic Director of the Winston-Salem Youth Arts Institute, Pen & Voice, Mr. Bones Film, LLC. As a statewide resident NC Playworks Playwright Mr. Freeman is a key co-developer of the NCEdTA state wide curriculum for Playworks in the Schools (K4-12). Mr. Freeman is a Panelist for the 2009 NC Arts Council Playwrights/Screen Writer Fellowship.