cast and crew biography's ------------------------------ Writer/Director: Ethan Hunter
As far back as he can remember Ethan Hunter has wanted
to be only one thing. When it became evident, however, that it was unlikely
he would grow up to be Batman, Ethan decided to alter his locus. Ethan wrote his first screenplay at age eighteen; an opus
called I Do dedicated almost entirely to the proposition that his brother’s
surrender to the silent assassin known as marriage must be mocked savagely. In the fall of 2000 Ethan found himself in Asheville,
North Carolina, “The Paris of the South.” Ethan would later
describe this move as, “providence.” Of course Ethan has
also described extra fries, good parking spaces and his roommates “free”
beer as “providence,” so his judgment on such things really
can’t be trusted. “I’ve always been a writer,” Ethan says
with more than a hint of pretension. “Even when I was a video
store clerk and a processing specialist, I was a writer. It’s
not what I do. It’s what I am.” But it wasn’t until
he came to the University of North Carolina Asheville that Ethan first
stepped behind the camera to bring his stories to life. His first short
was a surreal post-apocalyptic-western entitled Ultimo Hombre, which
paired Ethan with actor Travis Barkley for the first time. Among other
things, this film taught Ethan the value of not making movies about
a post-apocalyptic wild-west, or any subject with which he is not intimately
familiar. In the summer of 2001 Ethan, looking for something more
substantial, penned his greatest mea culpa, a staggeringly honest film
called, For Catherine. He and a spectacular and generous cast and crew
would spend the next three years bringing to fruition this love letter
to things past, a family of friends and the girl who finally gave him
something personal to say. For Catherine is Ethan’s feature debut. In addition he has written seven full length screenplays, the novel, Double Spaced Anachronistic Propaganda in Times New Roman, and some of the worst poetry you’ve never read.
Producer: Catherine Campbell
Catherine Campbell didn’t plan on being the next Harvey Weinstein. But, after reading a little screenplay called For Catherine, a comedy inspired largely by her bedevilled relationship with writer/director Ethan Hunter, she decided to feed her ego and fund the film. The script, despite countless changes throughout production,
never lost sight of what initially moved Catherine to take on the role
of producer: an unsettling but passionate and honest look at the paradox
of the Romantic Comedy. The film took on a further meaning for Catherine
after she auditioned for and received the title role. Here she learned
that money does not always equate to power as she endured countless
castigations from behind the camera. In addition to producing, Catherine is also an accomplished writer who is currently in the process of completing her novel. For Catherine marks her first feature film.
Director of Photography: Ed Fickle
Ed fickle is an astonishingly accomplished photographer with several dozen short films under his black, spiked belt, including an adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Pit and the Pendulum” which has the honor of being the first student work shot on film at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. “We couldn’t have made this film without Ed,” says writer/director Ethan Hunter, “nor would I have wanted to.” Ed recently received his master’s degree from a very prestigious college in Syracuse, New York, the name of which escapes me at the moment. He once shot a Pepsi machine just to watch it leak. Editor: Evan Schafer
When not editing Ethan Hunter’s movies, Evan Schafer can be found editing other movies at a production studio in downtown Asheville, North Carolina. “Call it a passion,” he says, “call it a job, whatever it is I love doing it and can’t imagine doing anything else. That is,” he adds, “until playing Tiger Woods 2005 becomes a viable employment opportunity.” Evan is a brilliant editor and the production almost surely would have floundered without him. Composer: Grant Henry
Once described in print as a “heavy rock icon,” Grant Henry may be the most talented musician of his generation. That’s a sentence that only seems like overreaching until one hears him play. As the front man for Minivoid and the drummer for Off Centre Henry cemented his reputation in Asheville, NC, but it is likely on his wildly popular website, Metroid Metal that Henry has found the most acclaim the world over, creating a remix sensation from the annals of video game history that is quite simply taking the online world by storm. It is in the score for For Catherine, however, that Henry has found his brightest, most mature voice to date. In addition to having composed and performed the entire original score for For Catherine, Grant Henry also stars as Duo Black. |
