JACOB DICKEY

Producer / Director / PULP BOY, LLC. Manager

• 15 years experience producing/directing
• 10 years experience in Business Operations/Management
• Award Winning Producer/Director
• Over 150 Previous Film Projects
• 5 years theatrical education
• Hollywood Film Institute Graduate

"Pulp Boy is such a natural match for me.  I read thousands of scripts looking for "the one," when Pulp Boy caught me completely by surprise.  The style and comedy is just spot on, and I just love the characters.  What really got me on-board, though, was the story and the ideals it promotes.  It is exactly the kind of movie that I love to watch.  It reminds me of all of my favorite movies rolled into one, and it is something I am proud to bring to the big screen." -- Jacob Dickey, on Pulp Boy

Jacob loves movies.  Before he was even 10 years old, he was running a camera making short films, and by Jr. High School he was already working for the local television station making TV commercials for businesses around the State.  Jacob graduated from the College of Eastern Utah having focused on directing and entertainment management, and also graduated from the Hollywood Film Institute, and has spent the past 15 years producing/directing over 150 short films, TV commercials, documentaries, and special event videos.  Every short film Jacob has submitted to film festivals has either won awards or been given special honors.  Jacob is the only filmmaker to ever have two short films competing simultaneously as Top-10 finalists in the Utah Short Film of the Year Competition (2007).

Jacob has also spent the last 10 years directly involved in the operations and management of his father's successful piano store, which has lead him to other business opportunities from coast to coast.  Jacob enjoys world travel, slapstick comedy, and can't resist a good sandwich.

BILL OTTO

Director of Photography

The director of photography is the one responsible for the overall look of the film.  He knows the lighting, the cameras, the lenses, and the moves.  We are excited to announce that cinematographer William “Bill” Otto has agreed to photograph PULP BOY.

Bill has worked in cinematography since 1997, earning his MFA in cinematography at the American Film Institute in 2001.  His recent work for director Dave Boyal in Big Dreams Little Tokyo, and White On Rice has earned him a fair amount of respect in the film community.  More about Bill Otto can be found at his website: http://billottocinematographer.com

VICTOR GISCHLER

Co-Author of the PULP BOY Screenplay

 
“Part Christopher Moore, part Quentin Terantino, Victor Gischler is raving, badass genius.”  --JAMES ROLLINS, New York Times best selling author of Map of Bones and Black Order

Victor Gischler launched his career with his Edgar Award-nominated novel GUN MONKEYS.  Originally published with the hip, independent publisher UglyTown, the novel was quickly reprinted in mass-market paperback by Bantam Dell.  Gischler signed a contract with Bantam Dell and published three more hardboiled crime novels, including the Anthony Award-nominated SHOTGUN OPERA.  Since then, Gischler has signed a new contract with the Touchstone imprint of Simon & Schuster who published his most recent novel, the highly acclaimed GO-GO GIRLS OF THE APOCALYPSE which has recently gone into a second printing.  Touchstone will publish his next novel in September of 2009.  This summer, Bleak House Books will publish Gischler’s short crime novel THE DEPUTY.

Gischler’s work has been translated into French, Italian, Spanish, German and Japanese.  Hollywood producers are currently developing his novels GUN MONKEYS and GO-GO GIRLS OF THE APOCALYPSE for the screen, and a New York producer has recently optioned his screenplay SILENT HARVEST.  Gischler has also recently started scripting comic books for Marvel Comics and has written issues of Punisher and Wolverine.  He has just announced that he will also be writing issues of the DEADPOOL comics that many will recognize from the most recent X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE blockbuster hit.

In 2001, Gischler earned his Ph.D. in English from the University of Southern Mississippi.  He lives with his wife and son in Baton Rouge, Louisiana .  He is a world traveler, a self-appointed BBQ expert, and a bad, bad golfer.

ANTHONY NEIL SMITH

Co-Author of the PULP BOY Screenplay

 
“[Anthony Neil] Smith writes with force and clarity.”  -Dick Adler, Chicago Tribune

Anthony Neil Smith is currently the Director of Creative Writing at Southwest Minnesota State University.  He earned a Ph.D from the University of Southern Mississippi’s famed Center for Writers in 2002.

His first novel, Psychosomatic, was published by PointBlank Press in 2005, and was later translated into Swedish.  His second novel, The Drummer, was published by Two Dollar Radio in 2006.  It received good reviews across the country, and was named as one of January Magazine’s Best Crime Novels of 2006.  His most recent, Yellow Medicine, was published in 2008 by Bleak House Books, a critically acclaimed indie publisher run by Ben LeRoy, who was named one of Publisher Weekly’s “Top 50 Under 40” last year.  Yellow Medicine was again one of January Magazine’s Top Crime Novels for 2007. Bleak House will publish the sequel, Hogdoggin’, this June.  Smith has published over thirty short stories, two of which were runners-up for the Best American Mystery Stories annual anthology, listed on their “Other Distinguished Stories” list for 2001 and 2002.  His story “Cramp” will be reprinted in this May’s Sex, Thugs, and Rock & Roll anthology from Kensington Books and Thuglit Magazine.

Dr. Smith is co-creator and editor of the internet noir zine Plots with Guns, which attracts a wide audience from both the crime fiction and literary arenas.  Stories from PWG have been featured in Best American Mystery Stories, and one was nominated for an Anthony Award in 2003.  From time to time, he is asked to edit special crime/noir issues of Mississippi Review Web, and in 2008 he guest-edited an issue of Storyglossia.com.  He lives with his wife and two cats in Marshall, MN, where it’s hard to get a good taco unless you make it yourself.