Calvin Berry(I)

Calvin Berry was born on October 31, 1957 in Worcester, Massachusetts. He was one of six children of Della, a domestic, and David Sr., a foundry worker, who migrated north from the Carolinas to Massachusetts. Berry grew up consumed with motion pictures and his love was inspired by classic films like Martin Scorsese's "Taxi Driver" and "Mean Streets" and Clint Eastwood's "High Plains Drifter", "Dirty Harry" and "Magnum Force" and Sydney Pollack's "Three Days of The Condor" and "Absence of Malice". He was asked once what he enjoyed most as a young man growing up, and he responded "Having the theater all to myself for the matinée!" As a young man he found his escape from the streets by taking pictures. In 1984 his love for photography led him to start a company called G. Calvin Berry Productions. It was there he honed his skills photographing models and doing fashion advertisements for boutiques. He was also called to photograph then Governor of Massachusetts, William Weld, at the groundbreaking ceremony for Worcester's Union Station, a city revitalization project for the commuter rail. In 2003 he co-founded Vertex Entertainment, a management firm based in Boston, MA; then in 2009 he restructured the company as a film production studio that mainly focused on video production for advertising, documentaries and features. His first film was the documentary "Farren Butcher The Movie", on the music collaboration of Jon Butcher of Jon Butcher Axis and Charlie Farren of the band Farrenheit, two of New England's well-known rock legends from the 80's and 90's. He's currently working on his new film "Two Days to Pay", a feature based on actual events, a young boy being raised by drug traffickers in the early 70's.