Dorian Stone

Assistant Director

Fotinus.comDorian G. Stone is an independent filmmaker based in Brooklyn. A native New Yorker, he grew up on the Bowery, in the company of struggling artists. Being part Japanese, he has maintained a deep and lifelong commitment to this aspect of his identity. Living in and embodying the nearly dichotomous cultures of East and West is an endless source of both conflict and insight, just another example of the many contradictions that we come to know of as our “human condition”, and this will increasingly inform his films.

An undiscriminating admirer of all genres, he has written and directed short films as diverse as commercial parody, horror, narrative fiction and musical. He has had screenings in multiple locations throughout New York, as well as, in London, Tokyo and Hamburg. In 2008, he received two awards. “Welldun”, a parody on American pharmaceutical drug commercials, was one of five finalists in the Comedy Smalls 2008 contest, judged by Comedy Central and Paramount Comedy. “Make Up Girl” a music video featuring KIN4LIFE was selected Best Music Video of 2008 in Afterellen.com’s Visibility Awards.

The name of his production company, fotinus, is an altered form of photinus, a Latin word for a species of North American firefly. It reflects the creative process which begins in the dark depths of our unconscious mind from which it emerges after a long journey to find itself finally, flickering, so to speak, on the silverscreen.