I created this intro for the recently completed Carrboro Film Festival, the intro played before each block of films. Music was created by Carrboro local Jay Manley. A big thanks to my wife Kelly Cook and Jennifer Evans.
It was a great festival, a packed and enthusiastic audience, talented filmmakers and a wonderful group of festival organizers.
To learn how to submit your own favorite childhood photos, check this page for instructions and guidelines. To see other submissions, check here.
Rob Baldus reviewing the Secret City Film Festival shorts for the Tennessee local paper Metropulse says this of my short film Dear Stranger:
In his quietly aching study of bereavement, Ajit Anthony Prem reminds us that it’s the invisible world that is the real one. Not only that but he proves that cinema can portray this inner life as effectively as any novel. Just a few silent seconds spent in the company of a stranger on a subway train are enough for Rosie (Nikki Alikokos) to spiral out of control, losing herself in a deep, grief-stricken fantasy of a life she will never know. Dear Stranger has a voiceover but works perhaps even better as a silent film, illuminating the arbitrary, capricious nature of love, the emotional continents that separate us from our partners, and the virtual impossibility of living just one life. The effect is almost unbearably poignant.
So well expressed. All the ideas that excited me about this film can be found in this article.
To learn how to submit your own favorite childhood photos, check this page for instructions and guidelines. To see other submissions, check here.
Our first submission!
To learn how to submit your own favorite childhood photos, check this page for instructions and guidelines. To see other submissions, check here.
I love to hear people talk about their childhood, their stories, their perspective, the little details. It is especially interesting, when you have a photo to refer to.
So, here is what I hope is a start to a great collaborative project. I would like for all of you to submit your favorite childhood photos. As an example, I have used my favorite photo from my childhood as a start.
To learn how to submit your own favorite childhood photos, check this page for instructions and guidelines. To see other submissions, check here.
My podcast Banana Bus will be playing at the 10th annual Hi Mom! Film Festival. It will be part of the Matineevening block which will screen at the Arts Center in Carrboro at 6pm on Saturday, September 6th.
For those who are new to the site, you can view Banana Bus here. The Hi Mom! Film Festival is one of the premier festivals in North Carolina showcasing international films with a certain amount of flair and fun (translation: not boring).
Hope to see you there.
It is sad to see such a talented actress as Madeline Walters leave my neck of the woods. So the day before she left, we shot this little podcast that highlights some of the inner turmoil she faces as she heads to Hollywood to seek stardom. We wish her all the luck in the world.
Shot beautifully by Todd Tinkham. With tons of help from Amanda Gurkin & Kelly Cook.
The trailer for my upcoming short. Starring Amory Casto & Dan Kelly, with cinematography by Jim McQuaid. The idea is pretty simple: a love story told in only three words. The music is “Dance, Dance, Dance” by Lykke Li.
Will update this page when I have more info about release dates and all that good stuff.
There will be an hour of my films screened at this year’s All American Film Festival. My program will be part of a local filmmakers block that starts at 3pm on Saturday, March 8th at the Marvell Center, Durham. Dear Stranger, Indian Giver and (crowd favorite) Banana Bus will be among the films I will be screening. Of course, I will be there to answer questions and chit chat afterwards.
The All American Film Festival is a four day event that features some of the best local and national films including Slamdance Grand Jury Winner Abel Raises Cain. There will also be tons of local music. I expect to be jumping from one location to another to keep up with it all, should be a lot of fun. Hope to see you there.
Update: Banana Bus wins Best North Carolina Film Award at the All American Film Festival. Woohoo! It was a fantastic festival, the audience were so smart and friendly, the films were incredible and the filmmakers who attended were a pleasure to meet. Can’t get better than that!