Erick Sommers
- Director
An autodidact from Missouri's Little Dixie with a professional history unlike any other - including time as a truck driver in Lahore, a black box theatre director in Los Angeles, an art restorer in Brussels, an unlicensed sommelier in Hong Kong, a mortician's assistant in Vermont, a screenwriter under various noms de plume, a tea farmer in Yunnan, an underwater welder in Louisiana, a bush pilot in Alaska, a blues guitarist in the Chattanooga Valley - with serious obsessions regarding nitrocellulose film, Jesse James and shojin ryori cuisine, Erick Sommers has traveled a long and discursive road to film production.
Along the way, he's picked up obscure languages, strange degrees and an unusually varied skill-set, one that almost never gets a chance to fully express itself outside the four-dimensional puzzle of film. An actor's director with a unique, movement-based approach to performance and a producer with nearly unparalleled technical ability, Sommers always seeks the next step, the new phase, the sweetly unchoreographed move.
Along the way, he's picked up obscure languages, strange degrees and an unusually varied skill-set, one that almost never gets a chance to fully express itself outside the four-dimensional puzzle of film. An actor's director with a unique, movement-based approach to performance and a producer with nearly unparalleled technical ability, Sommers always seeks the next step, the new phase, the sweetly unchoreographed move.
