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| JEREMY DYLAN LANNI |
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Writer-Director
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Jeremy Dylan Lanni is an award-winning writer-director educated at Boston University, where he graduated summa cum laude in English Literature, and Yale University, where he earned two masters degrees in Renaissance Studies. Lanni's first film was a modern-day tragedy called Nobody Beats Charlie. The film was made on a micro-budget and won a $55,000 postproduction grant from the Digital Media Center in Portland, Oregon.
Lanni then made two short films based upon works of literature. The first was an adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's horror story "The Tell-Tale Heart." Lanni's version, called Tell-Tale Art, is a black comedy featuring a disturbing score by composer Dick Wagner of Lou Reed and Alice Cooper fame. Lanni's second literary adaptation Under There was inspired by Wordsworth's poem "We Are Seven." Under There is a metaphysical comedy starring Richard Edson (Stranger than Paradise, Do the Right Thing) and Jasmine Anthony (Commander in Chief, Stephen King's 1408). In 2006 Tell-Tale Art won a Peer Award at the Dragon*Con Film Festival and in 2007 Under There won first prize in its category at what is arguably the world's most prestigious short film festival- International Short Film Festival Oberhausen. Under There was also awarded the "Most Heart-Warming Film" of the Festival International des Très Courts by Franc's Studio Magazine. Under There subsequently garnered European distribution through Methode Film.
Lanni recently completed a short film called A Woman in the West in which he tells the story of a frontier wife who is tough, independent, and willing to do whatever is necessary to protect her husband and her home. Reuniting three stars from the HBO series Deadwood, A Woman in the West boasts outstanding performances from Paula Malcomson (Deadwood, Battlestar Galactica Prequel: Caprica), Peter Jason (Deadwood, The Other Side of the Wind), and Larry Cedar (Deadwood, Hollywoodland).
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