Jerry Vasilatos

Director - Film
Chicago, IL

"It's now who you are underneath, but what you DO that defines you..."

Jerry is a native Chicagoan whose most recently finished projects include writing, producing, directing and editing The Dark Knight Project, directing and editing the 2008 48 Hour Film Project winner Clonely, and editing 4 episodes of the History Channel series Gangland. 2007 projects included editing DVD featurettes for the films Primeval,  The History Boys and Turistas produced by Trailer Park and the feature film Frankie D, starring Todd Bridges and produced by DV Filmworks. In 2006, Jerry edited 10 segments of the series Breaking In produced by Kevin Leadingham for the REELZ Channel, directed the 48 Hour Film project Protected! for Bliss Productions, and served as co-producer and editor for twenty three 1 hour and 1/2 hour episodes of the weekly syndicated series Made in Hollywood. Jerry also color corrected the PBS documentary Maid in America and edited the Macauley Culkin episode of Hollywood Hold 'Em poker for E! as well as Frame on the Wall - The Making of "The Door in the Floor" and Backstage with "Connie and Carla" for Universal Home Video. Now You Know, the romantic comedy written and directed by Clerks II star Jeff Anderson and edited by Jerry, was released in December of 2006 by Weinstein Home Video.

Jerry is also presently involved as producer/director of the dramatic thriller Butcher's Dozen, in development as a feature film. His other producing and directing projects include the 25th Anniversary Battlestar Galactica Retrospective and Galacticon DVD, the short scene adapation Blue World for the 2004 Project Greenlight directing contest, the comedy spoof The Blair Witch Rejects, and the documentary A Refugee and Me, co-produced with director Kevin Leadingham. The Blair Witch Rejects is a screwball comedy satirizing the barrage of independent filmmakers that attempted to ride the coat-tails of the original indy hit The Blair Witch Project. A Refugee and Me documents the life of Burmese refugee Twai Thongdee and his quest to obtain an illegal Thai identification card which will allow him to get well paying job in Thailand in order to aid his refugee family living along the border. Refugee won the "Best of Show" award in the Tambay Film Festival, and was an official selection of the Cinequest: San Jose International Film Festival, the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival, the Hawaii International Film Festival, and the Denver International Film Festival.

Prior to his move from Chicago and founding of his production office in Los Angeles, Jerry wrote, produced and directed the independent holiday drama Solstice which was broadcast nationally as Lifetime Television's Original World Premiere Movie during Christmas of 1994. Solstice was awarded the Silver Award by the Charleston International Film Festival, the Bronze Award by the Houston International Film Festival, and was broadcast again by Lifetime Television on Christmas Eve of 1995. It is now available in it's 10 year anniversary edition on DVD with it's new title The Night Before Christmas.

Jerry's theatrical directing credits include The Great Houdini, written by Stacy Tanner, and Witnesses, an action adventure co-written with Victor H. Schiller. The Great Houdini premiered at the prestigious Stella Adler Theater in Hollywood during the spring of 1999, and Witnesses was selected by the Chicago Screenwriters Network for their Winter/Spring '96 Staged Screenplay Reading Series. It was performed under Jerry's direction to a full house (130 capacity) at the American Blues Theater in Chicago on March 24th, 1996. Jerry's writing credits include Solstice, Palace Treasure, The Seahawks, and Shelter Me, a suspense thriller co-written with Sara Coover Caldwell. He is a graduate of Columbia College in Chicago, where he earned his Bachelor's Degree in film and also served as President of their West Coast Alumni Chapter from 1999 through 2001.

Jerry can be reached via e-mail at jerry@nitestar.com or at (323) 309-7691.