Aaron Doolittle
- Writer
- Director
- Actor
Aaron Doolittle fell in love with movies before he learned to talk. From The Abyss to Labyrinth to Die Hard he watched over and over until the VHS tapes wore out. Movies were a hyper-reality that paralleled the real world and became an education about both the art of film and the way we perceive the world around us.
At 15 he began writing dialogue inspired by the talkie-criminals made famous by Tarantino in the early 90s. In his high school, he landed a leading role in The Crucible, a first for a student in their freshman year. He got his first job in a Movies Plus video rental store, and at 17 he bought a video camera and made a 75-minute dramedy inspired by the Kevin Smith-View Askew universe.
In college at Niagara University he studied theatre performance and discovered acting wasn't enough. Writing was satisfying, but directing was his way of connecting people with material, and so he began watching the director more than watching the actors in various productions.
In 2005 he graduated Magnum Cum Laude and moved out to Los Angeles the next day. In his first year in California his screenplays were finalists in several completions and grants. At age 24 he wrote and directed his first feature - Bonfire, Falls - a hometown favorite in Buffalo, NY. Two years later he directed a second feature entitled Brevity - a film ahead of the curve that approached end-of -the-world scenarios by examining the human element instead of explosions and destruction of famous landmarks.
In 2010 he wrote and directed his first short film entitled DAVIS, which screened at multiple festivals and earned his first awards. He discovered the efficiency of short films and began learning the technical side of filmmaking rather than the creative process, and how studying a craft from both sides would make for a more streamlined preproduction and postproduction.
Since then, he has produced over a dozen short films that have screened in over 20 festivals and garnering seven awards for his writing and directing. In 2016 he placed in the top 15% of finalists in the Nicholls Fellowship.
In 2015 he wrote a pitch on Kickstarter, and with the help of his cast and producers, raised enough money to fund their first effort into television, a pilot entitled All Sewn Up about three friends, now in their 30's, faced with adult problems while keeping their imaginary friends (three troublemaking puppets) a secret.
Aaron Doolittle lives in Los Angeles, California and continues to write feature length screenplays, make short films and advises aspiring filmmakers.
At 15 he began writing dialogue inspired by the talkie-criminals made famous by Tarantino in the early 90s. In his high school, he landed a leading role in The Crucible, a first for a student in their freshman year. He got his first job in a Movies Plus video rental store, and at 17 he bought a video camera and made a 75-minute dramedy inspired by the Kevin Smith-View Askew universe.
In college at Niagara University he studied theatre performance and discovered acting wasn't enough. Writing was satisfying, but directing was his way of connecting people with material, and so he began watching the director more than watching the actors in various productions.
In 2005 he graduated Magnum Cum Laude and moved out to Los Angeles the next day. In his first year in California his screenplays were finalists in several completions and grants. At age 24 he wrote and directed his first feature - Bonfire, Falls - a hometown favorite in Buffalo, NY. Two years later he directed a second feature entitled Brevity - a film ahead of the curve that approached end-of -the-world scenarios by examining the human element instead of explosions and destruction of famous landmarks.
In 2010 he wrote and directed his first short film entitled DAVIS, which screened at multiple festivals and earned his first awards. He discovered the efficiency of short films and began learning the technical side of filmmaking rather than the creative process, and how studying a craft from both sides would make for a more streamlined preproduction and postproduction.
Since then, he has produced over a dozen short films that have screened in over 20 festivals and garnering seven awards for his writing and directing. In 2016 he placed in the top 15% of finalists in the Nicholls Fellowship.
In 2015 he wrote a pitch on Kickstarter, and with the help of his cast and producers, raised enough money to fund their first effort into television, a pilot entitled All Sewn Up about three friends, now in their 30's, faced with adult problems while keeping their imaginary friends (three troublemaking puppets) a secret.
Aaron Doolittle lives in Los Angeles, California and continues to write feature length screenplays, make short films and advises aspiring filmmakers.
