Campbell Dalglish is a writer, director, producer, founding director of D’Arc Productions, award winning playwright, screenwriter and director. His short narrative DANCE OF THE QUANTUM CATS won international awards and was selected by CINE to represent USA at the 12th International Film Festival of Peace, Hiroshima, JAPAN. It was broadcast on PBS/CPTV in a series on emerging directors. Another short film, ROAD KILL, has screened internationally.
Background
His award winning screenplays include the features BRUISES and DEER WOMAN and the short CHARADE OF A FLY. His award winning plays include GREEN FIRE, SPLIT, THE LIST, and WIGGER. He has written and produced two musicals: BLUE MASS and SKINS OF THE MONEY DRUM presented at the Yale University Theater. In documentary he has co-produced over twelve segments for broadcast on The New Morning Show (the Hallmark Channel), including multiple segments on American Indian reservations (Navajo, Apache, and Havasupai). He also co-produced ECO ACTION, and the short film AHALANI: LIVING IN HARMONY WITH THE SUN.
Over the years Dalglish has developed a technique of making films without scripts in marginal communities (A HARD WAY OUT 1992 Hartford gangs, THE COMMUNITY ROOM 1990 Jericho Homeless Shelter, and THE SHOOTING GALLERY 1989 Bridgeport Prison). He founded the IMPROFILM FESTIVAL in its sixth year at the IFP Screening room sponsored by CCNY Film Program screening films that were produced without a screenplay through structured improvisations.
He is a Film Commissioner for Suffolk County and President of the Plaza Cinema and Media Arts Center in Patchogue (www.plazamac.org) that houses the George Stony School of Documentary Filmmaking. He is currently in post production on SAVAGE LAND.
Education
Graduate of Colorado Academy High School (1967), BFA from University of Colorado (1971), MFA from Yale School of Drama (1986)
Career
Award winning writer/director of films, documentaries, plays and musicals, with a specialization in developing dramatic performances through improvisational workshops with trained actors as well as with non-trained individuals. Film Critic for the Long Island Advance, Founder of D’Arc Productions (darcproductions.net), co-founder and President of the Plaza Media Arts Center (plazamac.org), Suffolk County Film Commissioner and professor of film and video in five different colleges and universities, currently a full time tenured faculty and member of the Faculty Senates of CUNY and CCNY, with a back ground of teaching Screenwriting for 16 years at NYU's film school ranking second in America's Best Film schools. A writer in residence in over twenty institutions in Colorado, Nebraska, Connecticut and New York, teaching poetry, song writing, play writing, filmmaking, and short story writing in marginal communities through the Eugene O’Neil Theatre in Waterford Connecticut, The Institute of Community Research in Hatford, Department of Youth Services in Connecticut, The Connecticut Prison Association, The Connecticut Arts Council, The Young People’s Institute in Connecticut, Indian Reservations of Northeast Nebraska, the Colorado Chautauqua Program, Founder of The Green Horse Anthology and Stage for Denver Poets, professional actor in numerous productions in Denver Theatres from 1975-78, graduate of Yale School of Drama (1986).
Achievements
Road Kill, 2016, short film, 25 international film festivals, 6 awards. Writer/director/producer.(see awards and festivals)
"Participatory Visual and Digital Research in Action", 2015, Gubrrium, Harper, Otanez; co-wrote chapter "A Hard Way Out."
Long Island Advance- 2012- Present Over 100 Weekly Critical Movie Reviews (600 words each)
Spirit Roads: Surviving Genocide 2011-present documentary about Being Indian in Oklahoma; under a City SEED Grant $50,000.
Stateless, a feature film without a script, 2013
Red Warrior Films 2009 The American Indian Inaugural Ball, Washington D. C. – co-producer/director, interviewing 65 elders, chiefs, leaders, medicine people of the many tribal nations of America at the inauguration of President Obama.
The New Morning Show, 2006-07 The Hallmark Channel, through Light Work Productions, 11 documentaries, co-produced/directed segments for broadcast TV: “Journalist Returns to Syria,” "Tiko the Parrot,” "Women's Shelter Make-over,” “Sweatlodge Ceremony,” “Three Lives in Tandem,” “Clear Cut Logging,” “Saint Lucia Breakfast,” “Apache Womanhood Ceremony,” "Navajo Runner," “The Secret of the Havasupai,” “A Boy Named Rumi,” director/writer/producer
Taxti Wau/Deer Woman: 2005 original feature currently under option with Chris Eyre (Smoke Signals). Writer
What the Elders Say: 2005 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRNde9b0VEQ ) Interviews with Omaha Elders and animated graphic renderings.
Bruises: 2005 Dramatic feature Writer/Director.
Ahalani: Living In Harmony With The Sun: 2005, 57 minute documentary about building a prototype of an energy efficient house,WLIW/PBS Long Island. Writer/Director.
Eco Action: 2001, 1/2 hour TV pilot environmental news magazine. Writer/Director.
Dance of the Quantum Cats: 1996 Dramatic short about ethnic tensions in America. D’Arc Theatre Prod. Writer/Director and producer. *See list of screenings and awards. The Mural Project: 1995 Docudrama teaching cultural history through dramatic improvisations and murals. Writer/Director. Connecticut Humanities Council and Hartford Schools.
A Hard Way Out: 1995 Docudrama by and about teens in gangs. Hill Top Productions and
CPTV. Distributed Internationally by the Institute of Community Research. Writer/Director.
Tunnel of Light: 1992 Docudrama by and about the homeless. D’Arc Theatre Prod.
Writer/Director. Broadcast on Manhattan Cable. Grassroots Festival Award.
A Shoreless Sea: 1991 Romantic feature about a Japanese tycoon and an American artist.
Alliance Prod. Screenwriter. Producer: Michael Nolin. Director: Christine Choy. Altos De
Chavon Award.
Shooting Gallery: 1989 Docudrama by and about prisoners in The Bridgeport Corrections Facility. D’Arc Theatre Prod. Writer/Director.
