Dan Carew has worked as a life guard, high school history teacher, chef, journalist, seaman, activist, technician, software developer, business analyst, senior IT executive for adidas and now IT consultant and filmmaker. Originally from New York and New England, he has spent half his life in Asia, including 14 years in Tokyo. He currently lives in Hong Kong with his wife and newborn daughter. He owns a Red One MX camera (with an Epic coming soon) and runs a small boutique digital cinema production company. His first film was a feature shot on 20 locations in Tokyo, “Indebted,” which he wrote, directed, produced and edited himself. His second film was a short called “Hard Fall” about the death of a banker in Hong Kong has been nominated for two prizes (“Best Film Under 15 Minutes” at 2009 International Film Festival of South Africa and “Best Foreign Language Film” at Filmmaker’s Festival in Kent, England). He also served as Associate Producer, Chief Technical Consultant and provider of digital cinema production and post-production gear on “Little Sister”, a fairy tale shot in rural Yunnan, China, produced and directed by Richard Bowen (A.S.C.) He is currently working on scripts for two features. He and his company are providing cameras, production gear and expertise to “Super-Capitalist”, written and produced by Derek Ting and directed by Simon Yin.
Dan’s IMDB page: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3472193/
Dan’s company: http://www.kandariverproductions.com/
Dan’s blog: http://indie2zero.com/
Dan’s Twitter feed: http://twitter.com/KandaRiver