PETER ALTON

AGE: 32

HAIR: Brown

EYES: BLUE

FROM: CHATHAM, NEW JERSEY

DIRECTOR, EDITOR, WRITER

“Robert: Portrait of a Legend” is a student Emmy winner (Best Animation) that has aired on television in the United States and Australia (SBS). “Robert” has also appeared as in-flight entertainment on Northwest Airlines, and has played at a number of national and international film festivals, including the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colorado. Written and Directed by Peter Alton, “Robert” is a claymation documentary about the career of a claymation actor.
“Les Superficiales,” a comedy about a 1960’s street gang in Paris, has appeared on Canal Plus television in France and Belgium. Festival appearances include: Clermont-Ferrand, the Deauville Festival of American Film, Flickerfest in Sidney, Australia, Kinofilm in Manchester, UK, and the Tallgrass Film Festival. “Les Superficiales” is written, directed, edited, and sound edited by Peter Alton.
“Peter Alton meticulously and hilariously pays homage to the hip, black and white European cinema of the 1960’s – complete with mock French attitude and English subtitles.”
-F5 online
“Postcards From Lila” is a dark comedy about several men kidnapped by a former lover. Written, directed, edited, and sound edited bv Peter Alton, “Postcards” has screened in festivals in the United States and Europe.
“Beef,” written and edited by Peter Alton, is a comprehensive history of conflict in rap music. “Beef” was named Vibe Magazine’s “Best Music DVD” of 2003, and appeared at New York’s Urbanworld Film Festival, sponsored by Miramax and HBO.
“Part public-service announcement, part cultural studies class, part VH1 ‘Behind the Music,’ (Beef) is perhaps the first dialectical history of Hip-hop, brilliantly detailing how a culture evolved-and sometimes devolved-from cycles of conflict and resolution.”
-Los Angeles Times
“…(Beef) effectively employs rare clips of club dates to present protracted arguments in the form of extended musical dialogues, often incorporating graphics, skillfully doing double-duty as subtitles, making it easier to follow the trail of dirty disses…Well-written narration voiced by Ving Rhames.
-Variety

“Manfish,” is a silent comedy about a childless scientist who creates a half-man half-fish. Co-written and starring Peter Alton, “Manfish” won “Best Short Film” at the Roma Independent Film Festival.
“Mister Dunbury’s Exotic Lunatic Caravan,” follows a long-winded unethical English gentleman in the 1800s, who purchase a dozen lunatics from an insane asylum and travels them across the countryside as a lunatic wrestling show. Written by Peter Alton, the script won 2nd place in 2004’s Cinequest Film Festival, out of approximately 300 entries.
“Lollilove” is a feature-length fake mockumentary about a wealthy Los Angeles couple who start an upscale charity that gives designer lollipops to the homeless. Starring Jenna Fischer (“The Specials”) and James Gunn (screenwriter of “The Specials,” “Dawn of the Dead,” and “Scooby Doo 1 & 2”, “Lollilove”) was photographed and edited by Peter Alton. “Lollilove” will be released on video later in 2005.
“The Swidge,” directed by Peter Alton and made in only 48 hours as part of LA-based Instant Films, was named one of the “Best Shorts of 2004” by ifilm.com.
“Hosoi: the Life of a Skateboarder,” written & edited by Peter Alton, is a feature length documentary scheduled for release summer 2006. The film is about legendary skater Christian Hosoi, who took skating to new heights in the 1980s. The film recently won the "Best Documentary" at the Malibu Film Festival.
“Backseat Bingo,” an animated documentary edited by Peter Alton, has played in over 80 film festivals including Telluride, South by Southwest, the US Comedy Arts Festival, the IFP Los Angeles Film Festival, and the Palm Springs Short Film Festival, where it won “Best of Fest – audience and critics picks.”