Erik Courtney
Born in Miami, Florida, Erik Courtney received a bachelor's in Film Studies from Columbia University and a Master's from UCLA's Graduate School of Film and Television, shortly thereafter.
He worked in feature development at James Cameron's Lightstorm Entertainment. Erik left Lightstorm a year later to pursue a full-time career as a writer and director.
Prior to "Forecast", he directed "The Persistence of Dreams", a four-minute, real-time depiction of Abraham Lincoln's Assassination – the only recreation in history that has been allowed to be filmed inside Ford's Theatre, considered by scholars to be the most accurate interpretation of the assassination to date, the film also debuted the use of Large Format Negative Repurposing (LFNR[tm]), an innovative post-production process that involves zooming into an IMAX negative to create shot coverage.
Erik is currently developing several other projects, including a feature-length version of "Forecast".
Erik Courtney's film, "Forecast", will be screened on Wednsday (15/10), Cinematheque 1 hall, at 14:00, as part of the event International Short Film Compilation No. 2.