Geoffrey S. Fletcher

Here is a detailed profile of Geoffrey S. Fletcher — American screenwriter, director, and educator:

Geoffrey S. Fletcher – Life, Career & Legacy

Name: Geoffrey Shawn Fletcher
Born: October 4, 1970, New London, Connecticut, U.S.

YearTitleRole(s)
2009PreciousScreenwriter
2011 / 2013Violet & DaisyWriter, Director, Producer
2018Trial by FireScreenwriter

Legacy & Impact

  • By winning the Oscar for screenplay, Fletcher broke a racial barrier in the film industry, gaining recognition for narratives that might otherwise have been marginalized.

  • His career path demonstrates a trajectory from writer to director, showing how talents in writing can extend into visual authorship.

  • As an educator, he helps mentor future filmmakers and screenwriters, passing on skills and insight into both craft and industry.

  • Fletcher’s story is often cited as one of persistence: many years of struggle and smaller projects before his breakthrough.

Articles by the author

If humanity is being swallowed by a modern primitivism, imagination might be the thing that saves us all.

Geoffrey S. Fletcher

From stoplights to skyscrapers, turn anywhere in civilization and you will see imagination at work. It's in our inventions, advances and remedies and how a single parent masterminds each day. Imagination is boundless, surrounds us and resides in us all.

Geoffrey S. Fletcher

In these times of stress, snark, division and despair, I still suspect that two of the most important features we possess are imagination and a capacity for goodness. Those are qualities for which we will be remembered most fondly.

Geoffrey S. Fletcher