Here’s a bio I wrote about myself in third person. Maybe someday someone else will write a thorough and awesome bio about me and I won’t have to pretend it’s not just me talking about myself…
Jerry White Jr. has been making films since he was a teenager, starting in the early nineties with home movies and public access television in Metro Detroit. Initially a self-taught DIY guerrilla filmmaker, he later attended USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, earning his MFA in 2013. As a director, actor, and producer, Jerry has screened at over a hundred film festivals worldwide, winning numerous awards and securing international distribution for 20 Years of Madness (Slamdance), a film more than two decades in the making. In 2017, he founded the Vidlings & Tapeheads Film Festival to promote unconventional storytelling and bring together eclectic, unorthodox, and progressive filmmakers, musicians, and artists. Jerry is drawn to niche creative subcultures, outsider artists, and passionate amateurs. Heartstorm is his feature directorial debut.
Okay, that bio focuses on me as a filmmaker and doesn’t talk about my writing or music projects at all. It doesn’t mention my love of creative collaboration, though I guess that’s implied. I also care about learning, expression, problem-solving, making memories with people I care about, and exploring real and fictional worlds.
There’s also no sense of humor in my bio and I don’t think this addendum addresses that either, opting instead for a kind of played-out meta irreverence. Oh well—can’t properly do justice to an entire human being in a few paragraphs! You’ll just have to take me at my word that I’m fairly funny as well as clumsily sincere and contain multitudes.
