Logan Calder
Directing
Biography
Logan Calder is an award-winning independent documentary and narrative film writer, director, cinematographer, photographer, production coordinator, editor, and researcher who graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts where he studied Undergraduate Film & Television Production. He is also a documentary video journalist working at BrandStories in New York City, an adjunct teacher's assistant at both Columbia University and Princeton University teaching video production to post-graduate non-profit management and communications students, and an accomplished freelance filmmaker having worked primarily on commercials, political campaign ads, and music videos, in the industry since 2016. His goal is to continue making films that tug on emotions and changes the world through the art of the story.
Known For
A short documentary about the life and love of New York surf culture following transplanted San Diego surfer, Shawlin Tucker, who forced found a way to bring his passion with him when a college acceptance from New York University summons him to the big apple.
Coffee Banana Cigarette
A short documentary chronicling the coming-of-age story of generation z punctuated by numerous culturally significant moments, known as period effects, that have bred a generation of young activists.
The Mobilized Generation
Kit and his two best friends have been raised by a forest-dwelling cult on the outskirts of society. As they come of age and are brought closer into the cult’s fold, Kit alone is bothered by the cruelty of its rituals. After stumbling upon a mother and her child where the forest meets the outside world, Kit must decide if he is truly safest in the life he has always known or if the world he has been taught to fear is worth abandoning his adoptive family.
Eaglehood
An emotional film about how we respond to tragedy.