Talent Guide

Kevin Fitzmaurice Comer

  • Discipline:Producer
  • Program Year:Producing Lab 2010

Bio

Kevin Fitzmaurice Comer graduated from the University of Cincinnati with honors in electrical engineering. As a project manager for NASA, Comer designed, constructed, and launched an experimental rocket. Upon moving to New York City, he embarked on his post-graduate studies in film at Brooklyn College. He founded Psychonaut Productions in 2002 in Los Angeles and produced the award winning short film Parallel Passage. Comer was invited to participate in the inaugural March du Film Producer’s Network at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival. A veteran of music video and commercial production, Comer has worked with some of the biggest commercial production houses such as RSA, @radical.media, The Directors Bureau, Streetgang, Paranoid US, Cente Service, Day-O, Filmbug, Duroo, B2 Studios, Firefly, Humble, MTV, Washington Square Films, amongst others. He has produced and line produced high caliber commercials, promos, music videos, and virals for clients such as BMW, Lexus, Hyundai, Honda, GM/Daewoo, Soft Bank (with Brad Pitt and Cameron Diaz), Shiseido, L’Oreal (with Eva Longoria), McDonald’s, Pizza Hut, Disney (with Hillary Duff), Samsung, Zoosk and Google; music videos for U2, Green Day, Red Jump Suit Apparatus, The National, as well as F/X promos for The Riches, The Shield, Nip/Tuck and Sons of Anarchy. Comer is also the Head of Production at Evolution LA and oversees viral campaigns produced for studio films, including Bruno, I Love You Beth Cooper, Marley & Me, etc. Comer recently produced Tesla Popped my Cherry, a comedic short film by the McAllen brothers, currently in post-production. In 2009 he line produced Sparks, a short film directed by Joseph Gordon-Levitt and written by Elmore Leonard, which premiered in competition at the Sundance Film Festival. In addition to Before You Say Goodbye, Comer has three features in development and is currently in pre-production on a film based on John Patrick Shanley’s celebrated play, Down and Out.

Current Project

Before You Say Goodbye (Narrative Feature)

Logline

A popular high school cheerleader learns how to love when her former childhood friend, an ostracized