Getting To Know Tony Kern

By Beryl Dalton


If you have a passion for film, making sure that you pursue this passion and not give out in this dream is very important. All too many times, people have these aspirations that they were hoping to achieve, yet they do not seem to have the necessary motivation to push them forward and to take the next steps to get it achieved. Faltering along the way is part of the process, but succeeding is never possible unless you try.

Many aspiring directors nowadays are always trying to come up with ways that they can showcase their art to the rest of the public, they want to be able to establish their creativity in the kinds of films that they are trying to produce. This is how American director based in Singapore Tony Kern pursue his passion. Now only is he an accomplished motion picture artist, he is a screen writer, as well as a film producer too.

Born in 1969, Kern attended Gibsonburg High School in Ohio, USA. He then graduated from the Bowling Green State University, He has since been active in the film world since 1996 and his works can be seen until the present. His film career started off in Northwestern University, he was a video editor from the years 1996 until 2002, which really set the stage for him to be involve din the film business.

He worked as a producer and an editor for AOL-Time Warner in the years 2003-2005. This was prior to the time that he set up his own film production company. Later own, he was able to establish the fir m known as Mythopolis Pictures. This was in partnership with the Singaporean television news presenter Genevieve Woo. He owns a stock-footage firm, TK Time Lapse.

The first film that he directed was released in August 2008. Called A Month of Hungry Ghosts, it was able to earn the Best Film Nomination. This was entered for the Singapore Film Awards at the 22nd Singapore International Film Festival. Later in 2011, he released the second film, Afterimages, co-produced by Genevieve Woo. This horror film was a compendium of five shorts.

The second film that he successfully directed, Afterimages, was successfully funded through crowd sourcing, as well as crowd funding. It is to be noted though that is was able to secure the Media Development Authority production assistance grant. In the Network of Asian Fantastic Films, an awards competition that took place in Busan, South Korea, the film's script bagged the award.

The accomplishments that he was able to establish over the short time that he has been involved in the film industry is enough proof that he does have the skills, the raw talent to come up with the right products. With the right materials to work on, making something worthy of watching on the screen is something he has the forte of. This is even so despite tight funds to utilize.

Many filmmakers today tend to forget the fact that they're making these productions not only for the sake of profit, but for the sake of their chosen art. Some tend to get their ideals be muddled by the desire to earn more. Still, there are the ones that have stayed true to what filmmakers should be- come up with those films that will provoke the thinking of the viewers and at the same time, entertain them too.




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