Amateur Dictator
17min, Canon DSLR
A building superintendant dreams of becoming a dictator.
Director: Zach Carver
Writer: Zach Carver
Producers: Rob Richert & Willem Lee
Associate Producers: Kim Madalinski, Jennie Allen
Director of Photography: Zach Carver
Editors: Filip Kasperaszek, Willem Lee
Cast: Jorge Alberto Alvarado
Email: zachcarver@gmail.com, willemlee@gmail.com
Phone: (425) 260-6866
Website: www.zachcarver.com, www.amateurdictator.com
About the Writer/Director
Zach Carver is a filmmaker, artist, carpenter, and captain living in Brooklyn, NY. His shorts have screened across the country, as well as Beijing and Sri Lanka. He was born and raised in Seattle, WA, where his heart still resides.
About the Producers
Rob Richert is a filmmaker living in Berkeley, CA. The two films he directed while a student, My Name Is Your First Love and No One But Lydia, have enjoyed lengthy festival runs including selection in Telluride, Palm Springs Shorts Fest and San Francisco International as well as airtime on PBS in a program called Film School Shorts. He’s won three best short awards at Florida Film Festival, San Francisco Indie and Napa Valley Film Festival. Currently, Rob is living in the Bay Area, writing and teaching filmmaking at Diablo Valley College.
Willem Lee is a filmmaker and scholar of cinema living and working in NYC. He was born in Seoul, Korea but grew up in Brooklyn. His short film The End of the World won best short at the Korean American Film Festival last year.
