Ren Patterson(I)

Ren Patterson is a writer, director, producer and all around auteur. After 40 years of filmmaking, he is still hungry for new opportunities and new windmills and will continue cranking 'film' through his camera for as long as there are cameras. After graduating from New York's School of Visual Arts, Ren began his career in earnest, working as Creative Director for Independent-International Pictures where he worked on numerous features including "Dracula vs. Frankenstein"; "Naughty Stewardesses"; Five Bloody Graves"; and "In Search of Dracula" as head of marketing, researcher, script doctor, camera operator, in-camera effects supervisor, film timer, and in many other capacities. Moving on after a few years, Ren founded Templar Productions, through which he made a number of shorts, documentaries, industrials and TV ads. After Templar closed, Ren went on to work for TVCCS, Teletactics (where he was assistant producer of a feature animation for ABC) and Phoenix Films, before moving into the corporate world as a Director of Marketing and Creative Director for Global companies such as Deloitte & Touche, Ernst & Young and PIMCO/Oppenheimer - - always keeping his eye on film and video as a communication tool. Hundreds of films, videos and theater productions later, Ren has returned to his love of short films and recently worked on SHC and Evangelist. He is currently Creative Director at SVA Professional Services in Madison Wisconsin and is writing feature scripts and novels on the side.