About DG
Dead Gentlemen Productions is a group of filmmakers located in the Seattle/Tacoma area of the Pacific Northwest, as well as Los Angeles, CA. Their recent film The Gamers: Dorkness Rising, is currently distributed by Anthem Pictures.
The group met each other over 1996-97 while attending Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, WA. Between 1998 and 2000, the Dead Gentlemen filmed two feature films: Demon Hunters, and it’s sequel, Demon Hunters: Dead Camper Lake. The films were met with great acclaim on campus. In 2001 they shot what would be their flagship property for many years to come, a 45-minute featurette called, The Gamers. A comedic short film, The Gamers follows a group of college students playing a role-playing game, switching between the players squabbling at the table to their fantastical characters in the world of their imaginations. The film gained worldwide attention at game conventions and related film festivals. With the success of The Gamers, in 2002 the group founded Dead Gentlemen Productions, LLC.
Since then, Dead Gentlemen Productions produced several comedy sketches and short films, the high definition feature The Gamers: Dorkness Rising, and co-produced with Margaret Weis Productions, creating the Demon Hunters Roleplaying Game, containing the newly canonized world of their original Demon Hunters and a short film entitled: The Brotherhood Orientation Video. To this very day the Dead Gentlemen exercise their super power of unmatched collaboration to create projects together.
The members of Dead Gentlemen Productions are: Don Early, Matt Vancil, Ben Dobyns, Nathan Rice, Steve Wolbrecht, Jimmy McMichael, Jen Page, Emily Olson, Chris Duppenthaler, Evan Shimono, Chris Ode, Mark Thomason, Steve Payne and Phil Woodard.
Screenings
If you want to screen our movies, feel free! So long as you don’t charge admission, and you give us a little press, either on your website, etc, shoot us an email letting us know you’re doing it (just as a point of courtesy), and have fun. Take pictures. Go wild! But don’t make money on it, otherwise we have to sick our lawyers on you for our take. If you need something in writing saying we grant you permission to show it, so long as no money is being made and you give us credit in your program or website, etc, well here you go.
