My name is Michael DiPaolo and I have been in the room with more murderers than most police ever will, videotaping over 2000 confessions during more than sixteen years at the Brooklyn District Attorneys Office. Simultaneously, I have written, produced and directed featurelength dramas based on fictionalized variations of those confessions.My features include BOUGHT and SOLD 1988Certificate of Merit1988 Chicago Film Festival and REQUIEM FOR A WHORE 1989, both distributed by Chiaroscuro Video. My first 16mm feature, TRANSGRESSION 1994 was at the NY Underground Film Fest, the Chicago Underground Film Fest, Romes FANTAFESTIVAL, Manchesters Kinofilm. In 2003 I finished my first DV feature DADDY, a zombie revenge drama and wrote my first book which detailed the production of that film as well as putting together over 20 years of lowbudget filmmaking experience. It’s entitled THE SIX DAY HORROR MOVIE, A NONONSENSE GUIDE TO NOBUDGET FILMMAKING, is published by McFarland & Co. and is now available worldwide. In 2005 I completed production on MOTHER, a retelling of the Ed Gein story shot in B&W with no dialogue but plenty of sound including dissonant Russian choral music that plays like a surrealistdocumentary and is my version of commercial suicide. I’ve finally completed my long gestating 16mm feature shot in 1997, SERPENTS BREATH aka DEATH DESIRE , a filmnoir fugue of death and desire and I am beginning preproduction on my first High Definition feature that chronicles three generations of incest in one family and is entitled A SONG OF INFINITE SORROW.

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