Photo: Jonathan Grassi
Once upon a time...there was a little girl who grew up in the wilds of Maine where she let her imagination run rampant...
When I was a child, I saw Tim Burton's Batman, the first film I saw more than once in the theater (four times!). The next year I watched Burton's Edward Scissorhands and I knew in that moment that I wanted to be a filmmaker. I graduated from The College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine, a small college on an island where people talked about sustainability, how performance art can change the world and the importance of being yourself--earning a B.A. in Human Ecology and a concentration in Film and Writing. Since then, just like a pirate, I've lived in various places--the mountains of Vermont, the urban jungle of New York City, a yoga center in Massachusetts, the coastal city of Portland, Maine, and have traveled extensively throughout the U.S. in an old renovated city bus with nine other people for three months--while working on a Columbia University documentary about unique roadside attractions. Currently, I live in Los Angeles.
After freelancing in film and television for many years (working for such companies as A&E, TLC, HBO, NBC, MTV and The Travel Channel), I decided it was time to focus on writing and steered my ship into The Stonecoast MFA in Creative Writing Program through the University of Southern Maine (voted #8 in the country by Poets & Writers!) where I worked on fiction and screenwriting. I recently wrote and directed Arabel, a short film set in WWII that won Best Maine Film at The Emerge Film Fest (2015) and The Poet, that won Best Narrative Short at the Noosa International Film Festival in Queensland, Australia (2016). I also wrote and directed a full-length play based on the lives of the Beastie Boys, in addition to my full-length screenplay Rock N' Roll & The Immortal Soul, which was requested by The Sundance Film Institute. Two other full-length scripts are completed and in revision stages.
My creative philosophy can best be described through the music of Jack White, especially The White Stripes - minimalism, do-it-yourself and the idealism of a child.
Thanks for stopping by, and from one pirate to another: May you have fair winds and following seas. Yo ho!
When I was a child, I saw Tim Burton's Batman, the first film I saw more than once in the theater (four times!). The next year I watched Burton's Edward Scissorhands and I knew in that moment that I wanted to be a filmmaker. I graduated from The College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine, a small college on an island where people talked about sustainability, how performance art can change the world and the importance of being yourself--earning a B.A. in Human Ecology and a concentration in Film and Writing. Since then, just like a pirate, I've lived in various places--the mountains of Vermont, the urban jungle of New York City, a yoga center in Massachusetts, the coastal city of Portland, Maine, and have traveled extensively throughout the U.S. in an old renovated city bus with nine other people for three months--while working on a Columbia University documentary about unique roadside attractions. Currently, I live in Los Angeles.
After freelancing in film and television for many years (working for such companies as A&E, TLC, HBO, NBC, MTV and The Travel Channel), I decided it was time to focus on writing and steered my ship into The Stonecoast MFA in Creative Writing Program through the University of Southern Maine (voted #8 in the country by Poets & Writers!) where I worked on fiction and screenwriting. I recently wrote and directed Arabel, a short film set in WWII that won Best Maine Film at The Emerge Film Fest (2015) and The Poet, that won Best Narrative Short at the Noosa International Film Festival in Queensland, Australia (2016). I also wrote and directed a full-length play based on the lives of the Beastie Boys, in addition to my full-length screenplay Rock N' Roll & The Immortal Soul, which was requested by The Sundance Film Institute. Two other full-length scripts are completed and in revision stages.
My creative philosophy can best be described through the music of Jack White, especially The White Stripes - minimalism, do-it-yourself and the idealism of a child.
Thanks for stopping by, and from one pirate to another: May you have fair winds and following seas. Yo ho!
Check out my interview on "207" with Damnationland producer Charlotte Warren below.
Erin Enberg 2014 Reel from Erin Enberg on Vimeo.