Joseph M. Petrick
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Joseph M. Petrick is an American
writer
and director
best known for his film collaborations with Andrew Bowser
, including writing and co-directing the independent comedy The Mother of Invention
.
) moved around frequently after the divorce of his parents, the majority of his adolescence was spent in the midwest. An aspiring filmmaker even in his youth, he wrote and directed short films throughout junior high and high school that he would screen on the local Public-access television
cable TV channel.
While attending The School of Visual Arts, where he majored in film and screenwriting, he met Andrew Bowser
and the two began collaborating on short films. In 2001, the two created a short film called Notes From The Rogues Gallery that would be the precursor to the film they would make in 2006. Petrick & Bowser also co-directed the music video of Eponine for the band Ozma
in 2002 which was selected by Kung-Fu Records through a running online contest. After graduating from college in 2004, he and Bowser lived as roommates in an apartment in Maryland. Between 2004-2006, they co-directed the short film A Winter Observed (written by Petrick) which premiered at the Annapolis Film Festival, as well as the music video of New Friend Request
for Gym Class Heroes
.
In the spring of 2006, Petrick wrote the feature length screenplay for the film Notes From the Rogues Gallery. Petrick & Bowser began searching for financing for the film but after having little luck, decided to make a truncated version of the film with 20,000 dollars they charged mostly on credit cards. The 50 minute version of the film screened at The Landlocked Film Festival
in Petrick's home town. The following year, Petrick and Bowser moved to Los Angeles, California and co-directed the music video of Hate to See You Go for The Color Fred
(with frequent DP David Kalani Larkins).
Filmmaker Wim Wenders
picked a short film Petrick wrote and directed, Four Years, Six Months that starred Keir O'Donnell
and Ruby Wendell
as one of his favorite short films on the website Filmaka.com.
In 2008, Petrick wrote the screenplay for the feature film The Mother of Invention
which Petrick would co-direct with Bowser. The "mockumentary" style film followed aspiring inventor Vincent Dooly as he attempts to win a coveted young inventors award. The film starred Bowser, Jimmi Simpson
, Kevin Corrigan
, Mark Boone Junior
, Dee Wallace, Craig Anton
, Ruby Wendell
, F. Jason Whitaker and Chris Hardwick
. It featured cameos by Dave Allen, Chris Franjola, Keir O'Donnell
, Martha Madison
and Ron Lynch
. The film screened at The Hollywood Film Festival
and The Sci-Fi-London
Film Festival. Later that year, Petrick would direct the music video of To Be Happy Now for the Copeland
album You Are My Sunshine
which was released as a bonus feature on the deluxe version of the record.
In 2009, MTV
hired Petrick & Bowser to create a pilot for a half hour sketch comedy show. They created The Underground which starred Bowser as a man who lived in the basement of the network and hacked into their broadcast feed to air sketches and interstitials that featured him and his puppet co-horts. It was not picked up by the network but contained sketches that were featured on CollegeHumor
and won FunnyOrDie & HBO's Let's Go Viral contest, which led to creating the exclusive sketch Cycop for FunnyOrDie which premiered on July 12, 2010 and featured the protagonist from The Mother of Invention
in a poorly made film of his creation. The sketch starred Bowser, Juno Temple
, Ryan Cartwright and Zelda Williams
and announced the DVD release of the film. The same year Petrick also directed his first solo feature film, Ashes starring Tim Venable and Ruby Wendell as a brother and sister who must travel to Arizona to pick up the ashes of their estranged father. The film co-starred Craig Anton and Jim Turner.
Petrick directed the music videos for Down and Television by Jim Hanft who composed the original music for The Mother of Invention
.
Petrick is also a musician and records under the banner of My Autumn Friend and Your Eyes Are Doves. Releasing independent records from his website.
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writer
Writer
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and director
Film director
A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...
best known for his film collaborations with Andrew Bowser
Andrew Bowser
Andrew Bowser is an American actor, writer and director best known for his film collaborations with Joseph M. Petrick, including co-directing and starring in the independent comedy The Mother of Invention. Bowser also wrote, directed and starred in Jimmy Tupper Vs...
, including writing and co-directing the independent comedy The Mother of Invention
The Mother of Invention
The Mother of Invention is a 2009 American "mockumentary" style comedy film directed by Joseph M. Petrick & Andrew Bowser, the screenplay by Petrick. The film starred Bowser, Jimmi Simpson, Kevin Corrigan, Mark Boone Junior, Dee Wallace, Craig Anton, Ruby Wendell, F. Jason Whitaker and Chris Hardwick...
.
Early life and career
Joseph Morley Petrick was born in Iowa City, Iowa. While he, his mother and sister (actress Ruby WendellRuby Wendell
Ruby Wendell is an American actress and comedian. She has appeared on Last Comic Standing and has acted in independent films such as The Mother of Invention, I'm Not Like That No More and Ashes.- Biography :...
) moved around frequently after the divorce of his parents, the majority of his adolescence was spent in the midwest. An aspiring filmmaker even in his youth, he wrote and directed short films throughout junior high and high school that he would screen on the local Public-access television
Public-access television
Public-access television is a form of non-commercial mass media where ordinary people can create content television programming which is cablecast through cable TV specialty channels...
cable TV channel.
While attending The School of Visual Arts, where he majored in film and screenwriting, he met Andrew Bowser
Andrew Bowser
Andrew Bowser is an American actor, writer and director best known for his film collaborations with Joseph M. Petrick, including co-directing and starring in the independent comedy The Mother of Invention. Bowser also wrote, directed and starred in Jimmy Tupper Vs...
and the two began collaborating on short films. In 2001, the two created a short film called Notes From The Rogues Gallery that would be the precursor to the film they would make in 2006. Petrick & Bowser also co-directed the music video of Eponine for the band Ozma
Ozma (band)
Ozma is a rock band from Pasadena, California. The band's sound is a mix of new-wave–influenced power pop and Casiotone-driven melodies sustained by heavy guitar riffs. The complexity of Ozma's songs grew considerably during the band's initial nine-year history...
in 2002 which was selected by Kung-Fu Records through a running online contest. After graduating from college in 2004, he and Bowser lived as roommates in an apartment in Maryland. Between 2004-2006, they co-directed the short film A Winter Observed (written by Petrick) which premiered at the Annapolis Film Festival, as well as the music video of New Friend Request
New Friend Request
"New Friend Request" is the second single taken from the Gym Class Heroes album As Cruel as School Children. The single was released on 23 October in the UK and was the band's second consecutive single to be a non-chart qualifier as both physical formats contained a sticker, which is against UK...
for Gym Class Heroes
Gym Class Heroes
Gym Class Heroes is an American hip hop rock band from Geneva, New York. They have collaborated with Fall Out Boy's Patrick Stump on numerous occasions, notably for providing backing vocals on the song "Cupid's Chokehold." Stump also produced the majority of their album The Quilt.The group formed...
.
In the spring of 2006, Petrick wrote the feature length screenplay for the film Notes From the Rogues Gallery. Petrick & Bowser began searching for financing for the film but after having little luck, decided to make a truncated version of the film with 20,000 dollars they charged mostly on credit cards. The 50 minute version of the film screened at The Landlocked Film Festival
Landlocked Film Festival
Landlocked Film Festival is an annual film festival hosted in Iowa City, Iowa. The Festival was founded in 2007. Landlocked Film Festival was created to support independent filmmaking by bringing the best of independent world cinema to the American heartland, by providing workshops led by experts...
in Petrick's home town. The following year, Petrick and Bowser moved to Los Angeles, California and co-directed the music video of Hate to See You Go for The Color Fred
The Color Fred
The Color Fred is a band headed by former Taking Back Sunday guitarist and singer Fred Mascherino. The band got their name by a poll taken on the internet and The Color Fred was declared as the fans' favorite name. The band was started while he was in the band Breaking Pangaea. The Color Fred was...
(with frequent DP David Kalani Larkins).
Filmmaker Wim Wenders
Wim Wenders
Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders is a German film director, playwright, author, photographer and producer.-Early life:Wenders was born in Düsseldorf. He graduated from high school in Oberhausen in the Ruhr area. He then studied medicine and philosophy in Freiburg and Düsseldorf...
picked a short film Petrick wrote and directed, Four Years, Six Months that starred Keir O'Donnell
Keir O'Donnell
Keir O'Donnell is an Australian actor best known for his roles in the comedy films Wedding Crashers and Paul Blart: Mall Cop...
and Ruby Wendell
Ruby Wendell
Ruby Wendell is an American actress and comedian. She has appeared on Last Comic Standing and has acted in independent films such as The Mother of Invention, I'm Not Like That No More and Ashes.- Biography :...
as one of his favorite short films on the website Filmaka.com.
In 2008, Petrick wrote the screenplay for the feature film The Mother of Invention
The Mother of Invention
The Mother of Invention is a 2009 American "mockumentary" style comedy film directed by Joseph M. Petrick & Andrew Bowser, the screenplay by Petrick. The film starred Bowser, Jimmi Simpson, Kevin Corrigan, Mark Boone Junior, Dee Wallace, Craig Anton, Ruby Wendell, F. Jason Whitaker and Chris Hardwick...
which Petrick would co-direct with Bowser. The "mockumentary" style film followed aspiring inventor Vincent Dooly as he attempts to win a coveted young inventors award. The film starred Bowser, Jimmi Simpson
Jimmi Simpson
James Raymond "Jimmi" Simpson is an American actor. He has had recurring roles on the television shows 24, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Psych, My Name Is Earl, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and The Late Show with David Letterman...
, Kevin Corrigan
Kevin Corrigan
Kevin Fitzgerald Corrigan is an American actor who has appeared mostly in independent films and television since the 1990s.-Life and career:Corrigan was born in The Bronx, New York to an Irish-American father and a Puerto Rican mother...
, Mark Boone Junior
Mark Boone Junior
Mark Boone Junior is an American actor perhaps best known for his roles as Bobby Munson in FX's Sons of Anarchy and in two films by Christopher Nolan, Memento and Batman Begins...
, Dee Wallace, Craig Anton
Craig Anton
Craig Ward Anton is an American actor and comedian. Anton is most notable for being one of the original cast of comedians on sketch comedy television series MADtv and for his role as Lloyd Diffy in the Disney Channel Original Series Phil of the Future.-Early life and career:Anton, eldest son of...
, Ruby Wendell
Ruby Wendell
Ruby Wendell is an American actress and comedian. She has appeared on Last Comic Standing and has acted in independent films such as The Mother of Invention, I'm Not Like That No More and Ashes.- Biography :...
, F. Jason Whitaker and Chris Hardwick
Chris Hardwick
Christopher Ryan "Chris" Hardwick is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, musician, podcaster, television personality, and voice artist...
. It featured cameos by Dave Allen, Chris Franjola, Keir O'Donnell
Keir O'Donnell
Keir O'Donnell is an Australian actor best known for his roles in the comedy films Wedding Crashers and Paul Blart: Mall Cop...
, Martha Madison
Martha Madison
Martha Madison is an American actress.- Life and career :Madison was born in Newport News, Virginia...
and Ron Lynch
Ron Lynch
Ron Lynch is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer. He has appeared in a number of movies and television shows. He has worked as a voice actor for several animated shows, including Home Movies and Tom Goes to the Mayor, and has made guest appearances on Dr...
. The film screened at The Hollywood Film Festival
Hollywood Film Festival
The Hollywood Film Festival is an annual Film festival which is located in Los Angeles, California, USA. The Festival was established in 1997 by Carlos de Abreu and his wife, model Janice Pennington....
and The Sci-Fi-London
Sci-Fi-London
SCI-FI-LONDON , is a UK based film festival, dedicated to the science fiction and fantasy genres, which began in 2002.-About the Festival:...
Film Festival. Later that year, Petrick would direct the music video of To Be Happy Now for the Copeland
Copeland (band)
Copeland was an indie rock band, originally formed in 2001 by singer Aaron Marsh with his friend, bassist and backup singer James Likeness, in the city of Lakeland, Florida.-Inception:...
album You Are My Sunshine
You Are My Sunshine (Copeland album)
You Are My Sunshine is Florida-based indie rock band Copeland's fourth full length album. It was released on October 14, 2008.The album marks Copeland's first release on their current record label, Tooth & Nail. The album reached number 9 on the iTunes Top Album list two days after it was released...
which was released as a bonus feature on the deluxe version of the record.
In 2009, MTV
MTV
MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....
hired Petrick & Bowser to create a pilot for a half hour sketch comedy show. They created The Underground which starred Bowser as a man who lived in the basement of the network and hacked into their broadcast feed to air sketches and interstitials that featured him and his puppet co-horts. It was not picked up by the network but contained sketches that were featured on CollegeHumor
CollegeHumor
CollegeHumor is a comedy website owned by InterActiveCorp and based in New York City. The site features daily original comedy videos and articles created by its in-house writing and production team, in addition to user-submitted videos, pictures, articles and links. In early 2009, CollegeHumor's...
and won FunnyOrDie & HBO's Let's Go Viral contest, which led to creating the exclusive sketch Cycop for FunnyOrDie which premiered on July 12, 2010 and featured the protagonist from The Mother of Invention
The Mother of Invention
The Mother of Invention is a 2009 American "mockumentary" style comedy film directed by Joseph M. Petrick & Andrew Bowser, the screenplay by Petrick. The film starred Bowser, Jimmi Simpson, Kevin Corrigan, Mark Boone Junior, Dee Wallace, Craig Anton, Ruby Wendell, F. Jason Whitaker and Chris Hardwick...
in a poorly made film of his creation. The sketch starred Bowser, Juno Temple
Juno Temple
-Early life:Juno Temple was born in London, and is the daughter of producer Amanda Pirie and film director Julien Temple. She grew up in Somerset, England and attended Enmore Primary School, Bedales School, and King's College, Taunton...
, Ryan Cartwright and Zelda Williams
Zelda Williams
Zelda Rae Williams is an American actress and the daughter of actor and comedian Robin Williams and Marsha Garces. She was named after Princess Zelda of The Legend of Zelda series of video games. Her first big role was that of Melissa Loggia, the main character's teenage love interest in the 2004...
and announced the DVD release of the film. The same year Petrick also directed his first solo feature film, Ashes starring Tim Venable and Ruby Wendell as a brother and sister who must travel to Arizona to pick up the ashes of their estranged father. The film co-starred Craig Anton and Jim Turner.
Petrick directed the music videos for Down and Television by Jim Hanft who composed the original music for The Mother of Invention
The Mother of Invention
The Mother of Invention is a 2009 American "mockumentary" style comedy film directed by Joseph M. Petrick & Andrew Bowser, the screenplay by Petrick. The film starred Bowser, Jimmi Simpson, Kevin Corrigan, Mark Boone Junior, Dee Wallace, Craig Anton, Ruby Wendell, F. Jason Whitaker and Chris Hardwick...
.
Petrick is also a musician and records under the banner of My Autumn Friend and Your Eyes Are Doves. Releasing independent records from his website.