Kevin Langdon Ackerman
Writer / Director

Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, Kevin Ackerman attended U.C. Berkeley where he majored in Marketing and Organizational Behavior-Industrial Relations while minoring in Film History.  After college, a stint as a Director of Development for Roger Corman and his New Horizons Motion Pictures ensued before Kevin chose to attend The USC Graduate School of Cinema-Television.  There, Kevin received a Master of Arts in Production with an emphasis on Writing and Directing.

Concurrent with his post graduate work, Kevin refined his photographic skills and became a professional photographer specializing in celebrity portraiture and fashion photography.  Kevin’s photos have appeared in advertisements and editorial articles in The Los Angeles Times, The L.A. Weekly, Genre Magazine, British GQ, just to name a few.  He’s shot dozens of celebrities including Dolly Parton, Johnny Knoxville, Amy Smart, Woody Harrelson, Halle Berry, Sir Ian McKellan as well as models the world over.  Fine arts pieces have been auctioned to benefit AIDS research and various other charities, gathering national attention in the process.

As a screenwriter, Kevin created and wrote a pilot and subsequent episode for a television series, HOTLINE, about a 24-hour crisis center and the volunteer staff that man it.  The show was sold to De Passe Entertainment but the rights have reverted back to Kevin. 

Working out of his newly formed production company, TRIED & TRUE PRODUCTIONS, Kevin most recently received credit consulting on the rewrite of THE MAN FROM ELYSIAN FIELDS with director George Hickenlooper (MAYOR OF SUNSET STRIP).  Kevin is currently finishing two original spec screenplays and is in pre-production on a first feature, LOOSE LEAF.

LONELY PLACE, Kevin’s first sync sound short film and a directorial debut, made the rounds on the festival circuit.  It has been praised by film noir scholar Eddie Muller (Dark City: The Lost Art Of Film Noir), LA Weekly’s F.X. Feeney, NBC-TV’s Jeffrey Lyons, and Kevin Thomas of The Los Angeles Times most recently declared it to be “exceptional… special… a period-perfect vignette set on a peach farm in 1949.”   Even more recently, Leonard Maltin praised the film for being “impressive and mature.”  

LONELY PLACE won Best Short Film In Festival at The Breckenridge Festival of Film and at The Boston International Film Festival and Kevin himself was awarded the Grand Prize “Rhodie” Champagne Bucket for Best Directorial Debut at The Rhode Island International Film Festival.  Most recently, LONELY PLACE was honored with a Grand Prize Best Short Film (Drama) win at the world’s largest short film festival, The Los Angeles International Short Film Festival.  This qualified LONELY PLACE for Academy Award consideration in the category of Best Short Film For The Year Of 2005!

THE FALLING MAN is Kevin’s second sync sound short film.   A filmic response to the challenge of translating Tom Junod’s ESQUIRE article “The Falling Man” into a short film, THE FALLING MAN was a finalist entry in ESQUIRE’s “10 Directors To Watch Out For” competition known as CELLULOID STYLE and, even as a work-in-progress, the film was a personal favorite of juror-filmmaker Alexander Payne (Sideways, About Schmidt, Election).

THE FALLING MAN was the first short film invited to be an official selection of The Tribeca Film Festival 2006.