Name Todd Verow |
Country USA |
After his successful feature film debut, Verow formed a company of actors with whom he has sought to develop an intimate film-language through improvisation and unelaborate camera technique. They made the films "Little Shots of Happiness" (1997), "Shucking the Curve" (1998) and "The Trouble with Perpetual Déja-vu" (1999). Since then Verow has regularly attended several renowned film festivals with his thematically controversial and unconventional films. In the meantime Bangor Films has advanced to become a flag-bearer of independent filmmaking in America.
"Little Shots of Happiness" and "A Sudden Loss of Gravity" were screened, in 1997 and 2000 respectively, at the Berlin International Film Festival. In 2001, Todd Verow was a guest of the Artists-in-Berlin Programme, which enabled him to work further on his film "Take Away" (2002), which later was also partly filmed in Berlin. Todd Verow’s work is represented on the Artists-in-Berlin compilation DVD "6 1/2" by his short films "Superstar Make-Up Tips" (2000) and "Fetal" (1998). In "Anonymous" (2004) Verow takes on the leading role for the first time and was once again invited to the Panorama section of the Berlinale. "Vacationland" (2005), tells the autobiographically tinged story of two teenagers from the American provincial town of Bagnor, who discover their homosexual tendencies. In 2006 the film was also presented at the Panorama section of the Berlinale. Todd Verow’s latest project is a political drama, titled "Bulldog in the White House". The independent director lives and works in New York.