Biography

Eric Norcross is an award-winning writer, director, and producer of films, television, music videos, and commercials. In addition to his film work, he is also a published author. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College, a BA in Cultural Studies from SUNY Empire State College, and received his Film Foundation training from the Vancouver Film School.

Eric Norcross started making films in 1998 as a student at the Portland Arts & Technology High School in Portland, Maine, where he won his first awards for his experimental work.
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My mistake as a self-publisher was assuming that everyone I know would care enough about what I was doing to head out and purchase a copy, whether it was a book or DVD. Most of them just wait to borrow it from a library or a friend.

The tragedy of independent film is that it requires everyone involved to promote it in some form. When you have actors who refuse to include stills and what not on their social networking pages, or fail to send out e-mails to their family and friends when a new clip goes up, relationships can get sticky.

If I hadn't been a filmmaker I probably would have ended up a scientist. But not the legit kind that has all the certifications. I would have been a mad scientist - I'm close to one now for Heaven's sake. I think most filmmakers are.

A villain is someone who accepts the world the way it is and benefits from its weaknesses and vulnerable systems. A hero is someone who uses his or her life to change the world for the better, someone with the integrity to say "This is wrong, let's try something different".