A word from founder Dan Pal:
Thanks for visiting! My film work includes Scotty Works OUT, a short I wrote, produced, and directed in 2013, its 2014 follow-up Scotty & Josh Get Enlightened and 2015’s Another Party With Scotty. I am also Executive Producer of Searching For Venice, written and directed by Jason Knade.
In November 2015 I directed a staged reading of Somebody to Love, the year’s Great Gay Contest winner, written by Jay Cipriani.
I am also a company member of Pride Films & Plays in Chicago. Check out our website:
Other related work includes several years reviewing films for WDCB (90.9 FM, Glen Ellyn, IL.) My education background includes a Master of Arts from the University of Chicago and fifteen+ years of experience teaching film. Courses taught include:
-Film History
-Film Appreciation
-Intro to Screenwriting
-Classical Hollywood Film Structure
-Documentary Production
-The Big Picture: The Entertainment Industry
-New Media and Culture
-History of Film Editing
-Film Philosophy
-Film Aesthetics
-Writing For TV
-Film Festivals Workshop
I have also developed and taught the following special topic courses:
-The Films of Alfred Hitchcock -Oscar-Winning Films
-Film Directors: Today’s Mavericks
-The Films of Woody Allen
-The Films of the Coen Brothers
-Oscar-Winning Actors
-Film Directors: International Mavericks
-The Films of Aronofsky, Kaufman, Jonze, & P.T. Anderson
-The Films of Paul Thomas Anderson
-The Films of Richard Linklater
-LGBT Films
I currently teach at DePaul University and Moraine Valley Community College. I welcome any feedback or comments. Feel free to email me at djpal1@aol.com.
Dan Pal
Founder
