JACOB DICKEY

Producer / Director / PULP BOY, LLC. Manager

Jacob Dickey, Producer and Director of PULP BOY, is a bright adventurous entrepreneur of many talents, and even at his young age has extensive business, theatrical, and film industry experience in numerous states across the nation.  He is known for being a “Jack of All Trades,” and having great determination and uncanny ability to succeed in any task he undertakes.

At a very young age Jacob found the limelight on stage and on the radio, and developed a passion for entertainment and movies, and started making his own at the age of 8.  In the past 15 years, Jacob ardently produced and directed over 50 short films, TV commercials, and documentary videos, and has received several honors, awards, and recognition for his work at international film festivals.  His two most recent short films were both selected as two of the top ten short films produced in Utah in 2007 at the Utah Arts Festival.  To have just one film chosen is a great honor for any film producer—but to have two films chosen the same year to compete against each other is fantastic, and has never happened for any Utah filmmaker before, nor since.

Jacob has a keen sense of showmanship and loves the Vaudeville style of entertainment and particularly loves the slapstick comedy and wry wit of the Marx Brothers.  PULP BOY is the ideal film to really allow Jacob to let loose and put on an unforgettable show, and that is why he has dug in and spearheaded the effort with full force.

He has worked for the past 10 years closely with his father to manage his father’s very successful piano company, Lee’s Music of Price, Utah , and develop new business strategies while expanding business to the surrounding states as other companies of the same type merely dwindled and faltered.  Jacob understands what it takes to run and manage a business—for both the short and the long term—and is prepared to push his limits for the success of PULP BOY. Jacob wants to make his own way in the world and make his own name without riding on the success of his father’s piano store.  His true passion is for film making and entertainment and he refuses to loose sight of his goals.

Sharp as a tack, Jacob graduated high-school a year earlier than his classmates and graduated from the College of Eastern Utah (where he studied acting, directing, lighting, sound, theatrical tech, management, and production) as an Associate of Science.  He has served in numerous leadership positions in various undertakings. He excels at delivering the product on-time and on-schedule while keeping the group united and focused, no matter the circumstances.  He is an Eagle Scout with three palm honors, and served for 6 years in top leadership positions as a volunteer for the B.S.A. Timberline Youth Leadership Training camp.  In 2008 he rode a bicycle, unsupported, from Anchorage, Alaska to Tijuana Mexico along the coastal highways just to show that he could do it—a representation of his determination, willpower, fortitude, and sense of adventure.

Jacob passionately works day in and day out toward the fruition and success of the PULP BOY film and PULP BOY, LLC.  With his extensive experience and talents within the production of entertainment and the management, leadership, and operation of business, along with his resourcefulness and fiery passion to succeed, Jacob is the perfect leader to helm this feature film production.

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.