Cain DeVore PRO

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An independent filmmaker, screenwriter, editor, actor and teacher who specializes in all levels of BFA Acting for the Camera and Filmmaking, Cain currently teaches at AMDA - Hollywood (amda.edu). He has also taught filmmaking at Columbia College - Hollywood, as well as Master Classes in Film and Acting at universities that include The Catholic University in Washington, D.C. and at many international film festivals and workshops.

MEMORY GIRL (featured here) - a music video for the band The Black Windmill - was directed, co-shot with filmmaker Jaymes Camery, and edited by Cain, in close artistic collaboration with bandmates Michael Deragon & Axel Ray Steuerwald.

Recent works include WAKING - a dance film choreographed by Kyle McHargh and produced by fellow choreographers Donyelle Jones & Dasha Tertova for their professional youth dance program at Millennium Dance Complex, a project for which Cain also directed I GOT THIS FEELING - a concept dance video.

Original Dance Film Works for AMDA include THE FOUR QUARTETS, based on T.S. Eliot, as well as INTERROGATION - also choreographed by Kyle McHargh.

Working with beloved Director/Choreographer Doriana Sanchez, Cain edited films for the Dance Concert - ICONIC, from which the Dance In Film video had over 65,000 plays here on Vimeo.

Short, narrative 8th Semester Films Directed for the AMDA Acting Department include ROSE PETALS - written by Meli Anntoinette; ETERNAL LIMBO - written by Linda Braumann; SCREENPLAY - written by Rowan Hall; DOWN CAME THE RAIN - written by Nate Stephenson; I THINK I DO - written by Christina Offley; and SORRY - written by Kora Hyde. All of these screenwriters are now AMDA Graduates.

Cain wrote and directed two original short screenplays, RUMOR and THE PROMISE for AMDA's 2015 Summer High School Conservatory, for which he lead the Acting Division.

Teaching Editing and Filmmaking in AMDA's Finding Your Voice Lab, Cain is most proud of his students' original WORX vision films and videos.

Cain has co-directed multiple incarnations of THE HAPPENING, a multi-media, multi-discipline performing arts piece, with Michael Deragon, with whom he also co-directed THE HAUNTING, an avant garde theatrical exploration of the horror genre in film and literature.

As a professional filmmaker, Cain has written and sold screenplays, with COLD BROOK, co-written with respected film actor William Fichtner who will also direct, in active development.

Cain is also a script doctor who loves to help other filmmakers unlock the stories and characters that will drive their narrative.

Independent film directing includes MITZI & JOE, a dark comedy co-written with Angela Lubbock from the U.K. and PABLO FERRO - UNTITLED, a short form documentary about Stanley Kubrick's legendary title artist, co-directed by Richard Goldgewicht, who went on to make PABLO - a feature documentary.

I-5 (Interstate 5) is a feature film that Cain produced with Writer-Director Brad Vanderburg, a film that Cain also starred in, playing the pivotal role of Jake.

Other film acting work includes starring in RAMONA, an international film festival favorite - Cannes Recontres, Leeds International, Montreal International, San Remo International (Grand Jury Prize), Bogota and many others; as well as the Neo-Nazi Aaten in legendary independent filmmaker Rob Nilsson's USED, one of his Nine At Night series of films working with homeless actors in the San Francisco Tenderloin District.

As a Founding Member of the 21 year-old non-profit filmmaking collective Filmmakers Alliance (filmmakersalliance.org) Cain has actively participated in the development of many films and young filmmakers. Most recently the short film screenplay, HIPSTER RISING, that Cain wrote for 3rd Page (3rdPage.com) was directed by up and coming indie filmmaker Markel Goikoetxea Markaida for the FA 2-day filmmaking challenge SHOOTOUT!

Having had films in festivals all over the world, Cain's favorite festivals remain the Leeds International Film Festival in the UK, the Montreal International Film Festival in Canada, and the SXSW Festival in Austin, Texas, because the entire local communities come out to support and eat and drink cinema as art.

As it should be.

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