Eugene Rocco Utley
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Biography
Eugene Rocco Utley is a young American filmmaker born in Georgetown, South Carolina. He attended school at Clemson University and graduated in 2021 with a degree in World Cinema. Since graduating he has worked with independent filmmaking as a director, writer, editor, producer, and composer, most notably for his upcoming short film A Gift for and from the Shallows. This short film has already won Best Actor for a Short Film and Best Director for a Short Film at the Kiez Berlin Film Festival, and will have its World Premiere at the Myrtle Beach International Film Festival.
Known For
A documentary-style capturing of the life of Ab, a young struggling artist trying to find her way, all while dealing with unwanted company.
A.B.
An anxiety-ridden teenager searches for connection at a high school party, until an unexpected connection finds him instead.
Behind Closed Doors
After waking up alone by a backwoods lake next to a ring buried in the shore line, business man Jeff Sinclair is faced with not knowing what he did the night before or the story of whose ring he took.
A Gift for and from the Shallows
A man trying to run from his past is followed by a familiar face.
Memory Trails
Two friends share a light-hearted conversation over tea until the exchange takes a bizarre turn.
Tea for Two
A poem about a flower going through an existential crisis
Are We Just Flowers?
Two lonely people struggle with summoning the courage to take another risk.
How Love Goes.
A door-to-door salesman stumbles across a household dealing with a dead body in the pool and is mistaken as the private investigator they called.