A. Tad Chamberlain

Writer-Director-Independent Filmmaker (specializing in Audio)

I am passionate about filmmaking.&nbsp; I primarily pay the bills working as a production sound mixer in Hollywood, but the path I am circuitously pursuing is to write and direct my own material.<br><br>My personality and aesthetic sensibilities embrace the duality of mankind. I thrive on the artsiest of art movies, yet just as eagerly devour the schlockiest of B-movies. I specialize in audio for film &amp; video by profession, yet I am a massive Silent Film buff. I value and love documentary/non-fiction film just as much as narrative/fiction film. In my personal life, I am a happy, upbeat, easy-going guy who smiles and laughs a lot, yet I have a very dark side that is drawn to the macabre.<br> <br> My scripts tend to reflect this duality by combining subject matter that explores the dark side of human nature, while balancing this with an often twisted sense of humor. Favorite filmmakers who influence me heavily (many of whom I feel share a similar dichotomy in their own work) include Stanley Kubrick, David Lynch, Michelangelo Antonioni, Ingmar Bergman, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Luis Bunuel, Werner Herzog, Bela Tarr, Jim Jarmusch, Todd Solondz, Lars von Trier, and Errol Morris.<br> <br> I studied screenwriting at the American Film Institute, where I received my MFA in 2004. My first short film, post-college, was an experimental poetic short documentary on the anti-Iraq War movement, entitled “Louder Than Bombs.” I organized four small documentary crews (directing one of them myself), which gathered footage at an anti-war rally in Hollywood in 2005. I also acted as the sole editor of this project.<br> <br> My second film, a narrative short entitled “Anti-Samaritan Hotline” — a dark comedy about death, despair, suicide and sado-masochism — played the film festival circuit in 2010. At its first festival, CineKink NYC, the film won the CineKink Select Award for Creative Vision.&nbsp; At its last festival appearance my film took home the Shocker Award for Excellence—the top award at the ShockFest Film Festival in Hollywood.<br> <br> I am currently in pre-production on my next short film, “No Love Lost,” as well as a trailer for the project that I intend as my feature film directorial debut – <i>No Dark Things</i> (a psychological thriller with a sci-fi twist).&nbsp; We intend to shoot both of these projects simultaneously in a shoot, in order to take full advantage of the locations, actors, equipment and crew we will have assembled.&nbsp; We will be partially funding this new project using IndieGoGo.<br>

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