Film at Eleven

Clarinet, the award winning short film from San Diego’s DJ Summitt, will be screening in the Carolina Film and Video Festival in Greensboro, North Carolina. Clarinet will appear as part of the opening night screenings at 7pm on February 21 at the Elliot University Center Theater on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Representing the film at the festival will be the film’s actor and writer Zac Hayes. The festival runs from February 21-24. Organized by UNCG’s Broadcasting Department, the festival’s purpose is to bring attention to the film industry and film makers in North Carolina.

Clarinet is an introspective piece on a man who, after the theft of his clarinet, is pushed into a life of depression and hopelessness. After reaching levels that many of us will never see he allies himself with a world of nihilism and angst. Cinematically beautiful and eerily surreal, Clarinet has been compared to the works of Martin Scorsese and Luis Bunuel. In 2006, Clarinet garnered attention from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting who sent DJ to Taipei, Taiwan to represent the United States at the INPUT Conference. Clarinet marks his third collaboration with writer/actor Zac Hayes of North Carolina who will be representing the film at the festival. DJ’s past work includes Doomed to Failure which is available on Troma DVD. It has also aired on television in North Carolina, Rhode Island, West Virginia, Ohio, and Utah. His work has also been featured at the Cape Fear Independent Film Festival, High Point International Film Festival and Tromadance 2005 in Park City, UT.

DJ was born in North Carolina and graduated from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro with a major in Film Production, He now makes his home in San Diego where he is currently working on animating an anime version of Poe’s The Raven and shooting his next film; an experimental apocalypse film entitled Hollywood’s Tears.

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