Alan Webber(III)
- Director
- Writer
- Producer
Alan Webber hails from Elkader, Iowa, where he started making VHS
movies at an early age. Upon moving to New York, he obtained his M.A.
in Media Studies from the New School while apprenticing under director
Hal Hartley. He is creative director and co-founder of the Rural Route
Film Festival. Alan's short films include: "Day is Done", "Hawkeye
Fever" and "Adventures of the Brooklyn Hipster Superhero" along
w/narrative music videos for rock bands Japanther, Federation-X, The
Silver Jews, and Akron/Family. Through 2008-2009, he traveled to all 7
continents screening the Rural Route Film Festival while vlogging. He
has completed a screenplay on teen angst in rural Iowa ("Gravel
Grunge"), and is working on another ("Better Back Then") about an
over-nostalgic, obsessive collector who goes to Cooperstown, NY to
obtain the final autograph on his 1957 Milwaukee Braves baseball, but
is forced to deal with the present when he meets up with his estranged
son.