Frisk
(1995)
Screenwriter, Still Photographer
"Sensual and suggestive...it is a serious and discreet work of considerable dark impact and no little humor."
- Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
"In a jarring, bare-bones New Queer Cinema style, the film's exploration into the dark recesses of gay male desire results in a confusing conclusion: Is the drama a legitimate take on the complexity of gay men and their sexuality in a post-AIDS environment, or , in its depiction of them as masochists, sadists and killers, is the film in fact self-hating, if not homophobic? That there are no easy answers to these questions is a compliment to the film's complexity."
- Raymond Murray, Images in the Dark, an encyclopedia of Gay and Lesbian Film
SELECTED
SCREENINGS
Sundance Film Festival
Toronto Film Festival
Berlin International Film Festival
Little Shots of Happiness
(1997)
Screenwriter, Producer
"Bonnie Dickenson's performance is what legends are made of."
- Detour Magazine
"Little Shots of Happiness" could have been
no more than your run-of-the-mill good-girl-gone-bad flick, were it not
for Verow’s fine direction and an excellent performance by Bonnie
Dickenson as Frances. Verow sets his characters in front of the camera,
almost Warhol-like, and lets them interact. There are no easy or contrived
encounters here, only awkward, cautious meetings, as the characters awkwardly
try to discover themselves in relation to the people they meet. The result
is intimate Cassavetes-like realism, full of tenderness and honesty. Dickenson
subtly plays Frances as both vulnerable and brassy, fragile yet resilient.
We see her fumble through flirtatious lies and clumsily try on different
versions of herself, wearing different outfits, using different names.
Above all, we see her willfully losing control, cracked and wounded, staggering
towards emancipation."
-Chris Cook, New England Film
SELECTED
SCREENINGS
Berlin International Film Festival
South By Southwest Film Festival
Mill Valley Film Festival
Thessaloniki International Film Festival
Shucking the Curve
(1998)
Screenwriter, Producer
"Wicked, wild and wacky..."
-Village Voice
SELECTED SCREENINGS
New York Underground Film Festival
Chicago Underground Film Festival
San Francisco Indie Fest
Winner, No Dance Film Festival, Best Feature, Best Actress 1998
The Trouble with Perpetual Deja-Vu
(1999)
Screenwriter, Producer
"Sexy and relentless"
-Filmmaker Magazine
"Todd Verow’s
sexy and relentless digital feature, The Trouble with Perpetual Deja-Vu
won The Kim’s Festival Choice Award. The Trouble with Perpetual
Deja-Vu is a gritty story about a young woman’s explorations into
the outer limits of extreme sexual addictions, and is the final installment
of Verow’s Addiction Trilogy which includes Little Shots of Happiness
and Shucking the Curve."
- Filmmaker Magazine
SELECTED
SCREENINGS
No Dance Film Festival
Chicago Underground Film Festival
New York Underground Film Festival
[d] Vision Multimedia Festival 2000
A Sudden Loss of Gravity
(2000)
Screenwriter, Producer
"...an eerily authentic and urgently somber look at lives going nowhere in mid-80's Bangor, Maine."
-FilmThreat
"A Sudden Loss Of Gravity" is an eerily authentic and urgently somber look at lives going nowhere in mid-80's Bangor, Maine. Todd Verow's follow-up to the well received "Shucking The Curve" is essentially the dark side to John Hughes' high school pop fantasies. Some of these kids are mourning a deadly Prom Night drinking and driving disaster, some are reacting to the aftermath of a hate crime, and some just have nothing better to do.
Life for these kids is day after day of driving
back and forth with nothing to do, hopefully looking for a good place
to get ripped where the cops won't hassle you. The 80's fashions that
looked so goofy in "The Wedding Singer" are shown here to be
something much more dingy and desperate, almost an acute cry for help."
- FilmThreat
SELECTED
SCREENINGS
Berlin International Film Festival
Mill Valley Film Festival
No Dance Film and Multimedia Festival
Singapore International Film Festival
Anonymous
(2005)
Producer, Original Score
"Particularly edgy – so edgy it almost draws
blood"
- LA CityBeat
SELECTED
SCREENINGS
Berlin International Film Festival
Festival de Films Gays et Lesbiens de Paris
Los Angeles Outfest
San Francisco LGB International Film Festival
New York NewFest
Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
Chicago Underground Film Festival
Festival Cinema a Tematiche Omosessuali, Turin, Italy
Once & Future
Queen
(2001)
Screenwriter, Producer, Music
"...outstanding- a video-vérité punk
fable."
- The Boston Phoenix
SELECTED
SCREENINGS
Locarno International Film Festival
Los Angeles Film Festival
BerlinBETA Version 3.0 Film Festival
Athens International Film Festival
Chicago Underground Film Festival
New York Mix Festival
Dallas Video Festival
Film Festival NEW HAVEN
JEONJU International Film Festival, Korea
Digital Talkies, INDIA'S FIRST DIGITAL FILM FESTIVAL, New Delhi
The Boy With The Sun In His Eyes
(2009)
Screenwriter, Producer, Music
"Verow eschews the traditional genre film, mixing elements of comedy, romance, action-thriller, and drama in one satisfying package." NY GCN
SELECTED SCREENINGS
New York NewFest
Chicago Underground Film Festival
Mix Mexico
Belgian LGBT Film Festival
Tel Aviv LGBT Film Festival
Chicago Reeling Festival
The Final Girl
(2010)
Producer, Music
SELECTED SCREENINGS
POST PRODUCTION / TBA