Lamont Pierre

With 18 years behind him in Hollywood, Lamont Pierré is one of the industry's hidden gems. Having worked alongside industry veterans, Lamont Pierré has enjoyed a filmmaking career on the fringes taking his cues from independent-minded legends such as Oscar Micheaux and Melvin Van Peebles. Drawing his storytelling, editing and stylistic cues from European art films and foreign filmmakers such as Wong Kar Wei and Bernardo Bertolucci, Lamont Pierré is also a classically trained writer, student of literary giants such as James Baldwin, Zora Neale Hurston, Ernest Hemingway, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Geoffrey Chaucer. A self-proclaimed dramatist, Lamont Pierré is equally gifted as a director and producer and is that rare, uniquely talented filmmaker helming cinematography, editing, musical composition duties on most of his projects. Owner of the successful digital streaming platform, Arthouse Digital, showcasing his capabilities in the realm of scripted episodic featuring viral hits such as 'Red Skin', 'Ghosts of Fort Greene' and 'Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You'. At age 27, he self-produced and funded his feature film debut 'Talking With the Taxman About Poetry', filmed on location in Los Angeles, CA. Lamont Pierré continues to be a daring and experimental voice in indie filmmaking pushing cinematic boundaries with his flair for the dramatic and the transcendent.