garrett gilchrist
writer, director

No stranger to the director's chair, Garrett is the founder of Orange Cow Productions, a film group that while based in Monroe, Connecticut was responsible for six feature-length comedies, including "Excaliburger, or the Spatula in the Stone," "The Phantom Movie" and the all-improvised dark comedy/drama "The Animal Game." Garrett wrote and directed all of these. Now based in Los Angeles, Garrett is a cinema production major at USC and has directed many acclaimed short student films, including "Stripped Away" with Cori Haisler (a major inspiration for this movie). "Gods of Los Angeles" is Garrett's first all-out feature-length drama. He says, "The script was really just an emotional outpouring. It's a strange script, as most of my scripts are, but I think it has meaning behind it people can relate to. What very little I know about relationships found its way into the story, as well as the things I love, that are important to me. This is very much a personal project for me, and a movie I've felt like I've needed to make for a long time. I'm very blessed to have a wonderful cast who make my jumble of a story perfectly clear and beautiful onscreen."

jason gutierrez
director of photography

Co-founder of Transcend Entertainment, Jason Gutierrez did the cinematography and editing for Transcend's short film "Guilt," has done cinematography and production assistance for countless graduate projects at and around USC, and is currently editing the recent feature "Wandering Aquarius." He and Garrett met in a painting class, and one day each one showed the other some of his film work. It was then that Garrett told Jason about this idea he had called "Gods of Los Angeles." Jason signed on after reading the synopsis alone. To this day Jason has not read the actual script. Jason's skill at lighting immediately made this movie far more interesting to watch than it ever would have been otherwise. Although Jason was absent during the greater part of shooting, working on other projects during the intense month-long shoot with star David Ashe, and Garrett had to light most of the film himself, Garrett says "I learned what little I know about lighting by watching Jason work, and by stealing his stuff, and tried to apply that to this film. Hopefully he'll like what I did. I'm not sure what I would have done without Jason."



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