Dan LaPray

Dan LaPray is truly a unique and full spectrum filmmaker. During his university years he formed a band and trained as a sound recording technician. He still loves writing and recording music. He also worked his way through school at a national PBS Station in their post-production department. He was the supervisor at the university's media arts development lab where he trained students how to use professional cameras and editing software. In 1999, after graduating with a marketing degree and film minor, LaPray was kept on staff full-time as an editor for a nationally televised series. He was asked a few months later to set-up the station's first in-house sound-to-picture suite where he mixed many national programs. Because of his unique skill-sets LaPray was hired away by a billion dollar company as a director of photography and editor where he spent six years traveling around the globe making marketing videos for the company's hi-end products. During this time, he wrote his first screenplay with a friend. He then left this job to pursue bigger dreams. LaPray began producing and directing content for other billion dollar corporations such as Microsoft and Office Max. He then accepted a position as the Director of Production for a new, nationally televised network on Dish Network. He helped build the info structure from the ground up. LaPray then founded Number 7 Entertainment and again began producing and directing content for various corporations. In 2013 he produced Just Let Go starting Emmy Award Nominee Henry Ian Cusick (Lost) and Academy Award Nominee Brenda Vaccaro (Midnight Cowboy). Partnership and collaboration with actors is deeply important to him. He likes to get under the text and prefers to work with each actor in isolation so their scene partners are unaware of the other's motives and objectives - a methodology he learned several years ago during an intensive workshop about Directing Actors developed by Adrienne Weis in NYC. LaPray is now excited to produce and direct Over the Border, a film he wrote with Robert Zappia (Halloween H2O, Home Improvement). As a director he understands the entire process of making a film. He is deeply passionate about storytelling and thrives collaborating with other professionals that have similar passions.