Joshua Caldwell
Joshua Alexander Caldwell is an American filmmaker from Seattle who has been making movies since 2001. He studied at Fordham University and began creating films while in high school. In 2006, he won MTV’s Best Film On Campus award for The Beautiful Lie, a project he wrote, directed, and produced.
Caldwell has worked on a wide range of projects. In 2007 he produced and directed The Ronnie Day Project for Sony BMG/Epic Records and mtvU. He wrote, directed and produced the short Dig in 2010, about a Holocaust survivor, which appeared at several film festivals in 2011–2012. He contributed to Anthony E. Zuiker’s Level 26 project by creating cyber-bridges for Level 26: Dark Revelations in 2011 and helped develop the online Cybergeddon feature and eight related shorts.
He also produced short films for the YouTube channel BlackBoxTV, including The Reawakening and Execution Style. Caldwell’s debut feature, Layover (2013), was made for about $6,000 on a Canon EOS 5D and stars Nathalie Fay and others; the film is mostly in French, a language Caldwell does not speak fluently.
Caldwell directed the first season of Hulu’s crime drama South Beach, a six-episode series set in Miami. He later directed Be Somebody (2016), and Negative (2017). In 2019 he wrote and directed Infamous, which was released in 2020.
Earlier in his career, American Tragedy received an honorable mention at the 2001 Seattle Times Short Film Festival. Layover premiered at the Seattle International Film Festival in 2014 and was an official selection at Dances With Films that year. Mending the Line won the Valor Award at the San Diego International Film Festival.
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