Kelley Baker is an Oregon native and graduate of USC’s film school. He has a BA and an MFA in film production. He is an author, (Dennis Barton Is A Bastard And Other Stories, From Arrah Wanna To Mule Shoe, Road Dog, The Angry Filmmaker Survival Guide: Part One & Part Two) and an Independent Filmmaker. He has written and directed three full‑length features (Birddog, The Gas Café, & Kicking Bird), eight short films, and quite a few documentaries.
His films have aired on PBS, Canadian and Australian television, and have been shown at Film Festivals including London, Sydney, Annecy, Sao Paulo, Sundance, Chicago, Aspen, Mill Valley, and Edinburgh.
In addition to his own films he was the sound designer on six of Gus Van Sant's feature films including, My Own Private Idaho, Good Will Hunting, and Finding Forrester, and Todd Haynes film, Far From Heaven. He also did the sound on Will Vinton’s, The Adventures of Mark Twain, and three Claymation specials for CBS.
Kelley's books:
Dennis Barton Is A Bastard And Other Stories.
"Beautifully written. Emotionally compelling. Clean, precise, beautifully smooth prose chock full of delightful "move the story like a rocket" dialogue. It's rare I read a short story and wish it were a novel. Mr. Fifer is one. Generally a short story is about that person and their singular thorny problem, but in Bill Fifer's case, I wanted it all." - - William M. Akers
author of Your Screenplay Sucks! and Mrs. Ravenbach's Way
From Arrah Wanna To Mule Shoe - Misspent Stories From Misspent Lives
"On of the best short story collections I've read in years. Beautiful, haunting, biting and deliciously funny, Mister Baker and Mister Nobles have similar insights regardless of their varied backgrounds. Mister Baker seems to have grown up mostly in the Northwest, while Mister Nobles grew up in my neck of the woods, Fort Worth, Texas (I grew up mostly in Dallas). From the twisted madness we all knew as childhood to the their unique experiences of growing older, both writers capture the disturbing beauty of this thing we all refer to as life." - Sumittra Dawn Wongsaprome
About Road Dog - With no distributor interested in his independent films, Kelley Baker, aka the Angry Filmmaker, ripped a page out of the punk rock handbook and went looking for his audience in a used minivan with his faithful 120 pound Chocolate Lab Moses. Every fall and spring they traveled the country showing his films at art house theaters, film festivals, colleges, and biker bars.
Logging over two hundred thousand miles, they encountered an assortment of Felliniesque characters including, a lying hotel desk clerk in Chicago who cost Kelley his home, two well-read (or intellectual?) professional wrestlers in West Virginia, civil rights workers knocking back rum at Hank Williams grave, and a way overzealous drug sniffing border patrol dog in Texas.
Kelley gave an audio workshop for the employees of a porn channel, got yelled at in a haunted bar in Memphis, was asked to leave Oral Roberts University, and drove twenty-four hundred miles in three days so he wouldn’t miss his daughter’s choir recital.
Moses swam in two oceans, fifteen lakes, and enthusiastically marked thousands of spots from sea to shining sea.
“When I hit the road it was scary, demanding and a shitload of fun. Fierce storms, dense fog, icy roads, uncontrollable laughter, and oftentimes too much alcohol. Without that big old dog I’m not sure how I would’ve survived.” – Kelley Baker
At the end of it all they found a lot more than an audience.
To learn more about Kelley Baker and to check out his other books and films go to www.angryfilmmaker.com
"Road Dog, Dennis Barton is a Bastard and Arrah Wanna to Mule Shoe are fun books. Definitely the books to read with legs up, on a rainy day, or cold day in my case on a summer day laying on a blanket in the middle of pasture with grazing horses.. Make great Christmas stocking stuffers, or gifts under the tree for lovers of book." - Suzin Daley
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