Patrick Jerome

Growing up in Haiti, Patrick Jerome has fond memories of his aunt coming to visit from the countryside and regaling him, his siblings and his friends with her colorful true life tales. He discovered his own powerful gifts for storytelling at age eight when his aunt left after a summer visit and he began regaling everyone with his own fictional yarns based on the world around him. Several decades later, the internationally acclaimed independent filmmaker continues to impact people with dynamic narratives from stories that spark his own freewheeling creativity. A longtime staple of Boston's thriving arts community, Patrick is also the Founder and Executive Director of the Boston International Film Festival.Since launching his career as a producer and director with the real life based drama Deportation in 2001, Jerome has written and directed the feature length films Holla At Me (2007) and Open Vacancy (2012) and the short films Day By Day (2012) and The Last Delivery (2015). He has al... [Details Intro]