Kevin grew up in Villa Park, Illinois (the setting of this film) where he played four sports, took honors classes, art classes, fronted a band, and even found time in the mornings to straighten his hair. While each of these endeavors manifest themselves in FRANKLIN, UNDERWATER all seemed, at the time, adjacent to or part of the passion he discovered in high school, when an experimental short film of his earned an invite to the Ottawa International Animation Festival. From this screening onward, Kevin’s life took on a new devotion — using all of himself, each quirk, flaw, or talent, to tell a story. So he studied film at Columbia College Chicago and graduated valedictorian in 2012.

Shortly thereafter, Kevin moved to L.A. to attend UCLA’s Professional Program in Screenwriting where his screenplays earned him the Columbia College Written Image Festival’s Student and Alumni Feature Award, an apprenticeship with screenwriter Christopher Kyle, and a nomination for UCLA’s Nate Wilson Joie de Vivre award. He currently directs, shoots, and edits creative and commercial material, both live and scripted, while continuing to write in his off hours.

His most recent script — the short film, TINY VESSELS — prepared him most aptly for this project. The short (produced in the spring of 2021 for £27,000 in Cornwall, UK) afforded Kevin the opportunity to work with young actors of a similar age range to the cast of FRANKLIN, UNDERWATER and take a project from the script level through each phase of production with a full-scale, professional crew.

CHECK OUT KEV’S LATEST PROJECT HERE:
www.tinyvessels-short.com