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GRAEME WHIFLER

As a director, Graeme Whifler first gained notoriety with a body of filmed entertainment called, rock video. Based in his home town of San Francisco, Graeme's collaboration with the avant-guard recording group The Residents as in-house cinematographer, writer, producer, and director, produced a series of rock videos that immediately gained critical acclaim. Inducted into the permanent collections of museums across the country, most notably the Museum of Modern Art in NYC, the videos were heralded in the press as "beautifully (if eccentricity) shot... a tour de force of short filmmaking" (Record World), "hilarious, often stunning and usually twisted" (Toronto Star), "adventures into the subconscious (which) appeal to people with a taste of the bizarre" (Moving Images), and "disturbing and unique" (Video Communication Arts).

Setting up shop in Los Angeles, Graeme Whifler continued directing videos, now for more mainstream acts like Devo, Danny Elfman, and The Red Hot Chili Peppers.

While directing rock videos in Southern California, Graeme wrote his first screenplay tilted, Sonny Boy. Produced by Trans World Entertainment, the movie was to become an instant cult classic due in part to David Carradine's portrayal of a hairy-chested, cigar-smoking transvestite mother. The Los Angles Times said, "Sonny Boy is a surprisingly effective, darkly comic fable involving a couple who raised a kidnapped baby like an animal trained to steal and kill... proves darkly amusing and surprisingly touching thanks to the imagination of writer Graeme Whifler..."

As with rock videos, once again a new and unique style of production sweept across the television landscape, and once again Graeme joined the cutting-edge. Dubbed "Reality Television", this new format allowed Graeme the freedom to tell hard-edged, fast-paced stories using his skills of cinematography, writing and directing honed in rock video. Eventually, because of his knack for reaching audiences and achieving high ratings, Whifler was brought in as a "switch hitter" for shows like Hard Copy, to write, produce and direct entire sweeps weeks shows.

Graeme's second screenplay, Dr. Giggles, produced by Largo Entertainment and released by Universal Pictures, starred Larry Drake as the bad doctor. Again, quoting the Los Angeles Times, "Dr.