Talent Guide

Casey Fenton

  • Discipline:Producer
  • Program Year:Fast Track 2012, Grants and Awards 2012, Producing Lab 2012

Bio

Casey Fenton is an independent producer in Los Angeles and an alumnus of the American Film Institute. Prior to his work in narrative fiction he founded the West End Media Center, a digital media training and production center in the San Francisco Bay Area as well as NextGen TV, a youth run television channel on regional Comcast cable. While at AFI he was awarded a scholarship from the Hollywood Foreign Press for his accomplishments as a Producing Fellow. He is currently producing content for both the web and television. While at AFI, Fenton produced the Unmanned short, which played at several festivals, including Tribeca and AFI Fest. He was recently recognized at Tribeca as a member of the Panavision-sponsored New Filmmakers Panel, part of the Tribeca Talks series.

Current Project

Unmanned

Logline

A young Air Force drone operator struggles to balance the stresses of going to war for the first time with the challenges of being a good father and husband, as he commutes each day between suburban family life and the war he fights by remote control.