Selected Screenings
MUSEEK music video festival ( Russia )
Pacific Palisades Film Festival
Slamdance (Park City)
World Fest ( Houston )
AFIA Film Festival (Denmark)
Beverly Hills Film Festival
Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
Inside Out ( Toronto )
NewFestival ( NYC )
Frameline ( San Francisco )
Outfest ( LA )
Fresno Reel Pride
Temecula Valley Int’l Film Fest
Winnepeg Int’l Film Festival
Uovo Horror Film Fest (Italy)
Dead By Dawn Int’l Horror Fest (Scotland)
Rhode Island International Film Festival
La Femme Film Festival
Creepfest ( LA )
New York Horror Festival
NYIIFF
Duke City Shootout ( NM )
Sedona International Film Festival
Santa Fe Film Festival
Method Fest ( LA )
Montreal Fantasia Festival
Z Film Festival (Chicago)
Druid Underground Film Fest (LA)
Boston Underground
Fangoria Blood Drive I &II
Horror Dance (Houston)
Shockerfest (LA)
AWARDS
Best Documentary
Incest: A Family Tragedy
Beverly Hills Film Festival, 2007
Dir: Edward Blackoff
Best Low Budget Feature
The Longest Yard Sale
World Fest Houston, 2006
Dir: Vince Parenti
Best Film
Mister Eryams
Fangoria Blood Drive, 2004
Dir: BC Furtney
A Brief History
1974 Born Harvey, IL USA.
1992 Between rocking a drumset in a basement in Evanston and cooking vegan cuisine in an art house theatre, he attends classes at Columbia College Chicago, where he studies fine art photography and installation. In his spare time, he works as a crisis intervention counselor.
1994 Leaves Chicago on a one way ticket to Seattle.
1995 Lives between Bellingham and Orcas Island, WA in a tent and washes the dishes of rich people while listening to what’s left of Seattle’s finest grunge. Dreams often of other countries.
Eventually settles in a 3 story house in NE Portland and works with Portland’s finest street kids and juvenile prostitutes.
1998 Drives across the border to Vancouver CANADA, and cooks for every Quebecer transplant in British Columbia, while mastering the art of bar French and Tarte Au Sucre.
1999 Returns to Portland and finishes university, jumps on a plane to London UK to work in casting agencies in Soho and slings cocktails in the West End. Learns the true meaning of the Comedown Thursdays
2000 Moves to recover in Montréal CANADA, and work in more casting agencies.
2001 Moves to Prague, CZ and discovers the ex patriot dream of working on muti million dollar Hollywood movies for pennies a day. Spends most of the pennies on cheap beer.
2002-present Currently living the dream in Los Angeles USA. Still waiting to wake up.