Directory Profile

Professor Everett Lewis is an award winning independent filmmaker who has written and directed nine independent features: The Natural History of Parking Lots (Sundance, 1990), An Ambush of Ghosts (Sundance 1992), Skin & Bone (Toronto 1994, just re-released in Germany), Luster (Outfest 2000), FAQs, also known as Prends-Moi in France (Philadelphia 2002), Lucky Bastard (Outfest 2008), The Pretty Boys (2011), Somefarwhere (2012).  He is cureently involved in an ongoing editing project regarding his tenth film, entitled Balthazar, and is also developing a project recovering an critical gay martyr of the Civil Rights era who has been ‘erased’ from the history of that time.

His films were the subject of a career retrospective in France, at Polychromes Festival in Nice, in October 2011.

In 2011 he also collaborated with writer James Egan on a book of interviews chronicling the career of filmmaker John Waters. The book was launched with an event and retrospective of John Waters oeuvre at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, as well as a event and retrospective at the School of Cinematic Arts.

Professor Lewis has helped to both create and continually define (and redefine) independent filmmaking as a genre. He has developed a significant oeuvre and contribution to cinema as a filmmaker working to explore, through fiction filmmaking, documentation of gay and lesbian characters and experiences.

With hundreds of screenings, his films have been a staple of international festivals from the beginning of his career. He and his work have been profiled in the books The Indies: The Directors and Out At The Movies: A History of Gay Cinema.