Bill Dumas

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I'm a film/video producer, musician and actor living in Los Angeles. Since January of 2007 I have been working for Ron Paul 2008. Just before that time I was going to produce a documentary about Constitutional politics and Ron Paul with Ron Paul campaign chairman Kent Snyder. Over the holidays of 2006, Kent convinced Dr. Paul to run for President. The documentary project was put aside so we could plan the campaign. About two weeks later Kent and Campaign Manager Lew Moore came out to Los Angeles and we spent two days at the Comfort Inn in Hollywood planning the internet campaign. I put a web team together and then started video taping the campaign trips for our YouTube site. Within two weeks we had a bare bones website up an running, though we would have loved to have had six months of development time. The response from Ron Paul supporters wanting to get involved was overwhelming. A friend of mine suggested looking into Meetup.com. I quickly checked it out and set up a Meetup group in Pasadena. After putting a link on the campaign homepage the grassroots organization took off like wildfire. As much as we tried to organize the Meetup groups, we finally realized it was best just to get out of the way (even today, there are till efforts to organize/control the Meetup groups and I still stand by the Ron Paul decentralizing theory - just get out of the way and work locally and worry about your own community.) If you're still reading this and want to know more of my background, here it is: Bill Dumas is a singer/songwriter, drummer, filmmaker, actor and professional handyman. Bill has played drums on the east coast with The Whales, Vacant Lot and The Glenn Phillips Band and here in LA with Manic 5-0 and HS. In 1984 Bill began a solo recording project in Connecticut called "Blonde Furniture" and the following year release the 12" EP, "Has More Fun." At the same time he formed his own record label, Vinyl Siding Records. Bill was executive producer of nine vinyl albums including "Made For TV" featuring John Cale. His compilation albums, Towers of New London, Vol. 1 & 2 featured The Reducers, voted the best unsigned band in the US by CMJ (College Media Journal) in 1985. He has also written, produced and/or directed several feature and short films. His feature documentary: Missing, Presumed Dead: The Search For America's POWs won the Best Documentary Award at the Ft. Myers Beach Film Festival and Best Historical Documentary at the Visions Film Festival in W. Virginia. The film also screened in the US Congress and a DVD was distributed to all the members of the U.S. Congress and Senate by Congressman Ron Paul of Texas in an effort to pass legislation (HRes 111) which will establish a House Select Committee to investigate abandoned POWs from past (and current) wars. The documentary chronicles the American Korean War POWs who were abandoned in N. Korea and Vietnam by the U.S. Government. He wrote a feature screenplay about this story for Oliver Stone while he was a screenwriting Fellow the National Film Institute in Los Angeles. Bill's feature music documentary, "The Reducers: America's Best Unsigned Band," premiered at Connecticut College in September, 2006. Bill is currently the Video Production Director for the Ron Paul 2008 Presidential Campaign. In 1984 Bill played drums over the phone with Paul Schaeffer and band on David Letterman. The show featured Bob Dylan and Liberace. On the film front: Bill Dumas wrote, produced and directed, UNTO OTHERS (2000), a DV feature, starring, Bob Cicchini (GODFATHER III, PRIMARY COLORS), Charles Gunning (WAKING LIFE, NEWTON BOYS, SLACKER, MILLER'S CROSSING) and Duane Whitaker (PULP FICTION, DUSK TIL DAWN II). The film is currently in post-production. DOING UNTO OTHERS, a feature documentary about the making of UNTO OTHERS was presented at the 2001 Independent Feature Film Market in New York City and screened at the Thunderbird International Film Fest. Bill co-produced the DV feature thriller CAMP UTOPIA with Duane Whitaker and Patricia Isgate (producer of LA WOMAN, written by Ray Manzarek.) Camp Utopia recently screened in LA. Bill was Associate Producer of Duane Whitaker’s 16mm feature, TOGETHER AND ALONE (1997) distributed by Troma and was co-producer of Sean Hughes’, Bonnie and Clyde 35mm feature, THE BARROW GANG (1994). His 35mm 30-minute short, THROUGH THE WALLS (1993), produced in the Panavision New Filmmaker Program, was a finalist in the USA Film Festival. Bill completed a commissioned adaptation of Steve Stephen’s novel, ANYBODY LOVE, and rewrote REVERBERATION, the true story of The 13th Floor Elevators, for Mike Alvarez/Rhino Films. His script, TALK SEX, was produced by Playboy's, Mystique Films in 2001. In the past few years, Bill has been pursing an acting career and is a member of June Chandler's, Actors, Etc. where he has performed in showcases at the Victory Theatre in Burbank. He is repped by Sylvia Ferguson and Associates. Bill received his MFA from the American Film Institute while interning at Paramount Pictures and Propaganda Films. He has taught screenwriting at Connecticut College and the National Theater Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Connecticut. In the early 90s Bill served as Director of Development for SPI Entertainment in Beverly Hills and was a script reader for Marvin Worth (Malcolm X) and Albert Berger (Election) at Paramount Pictures Prior to studying at the AFI, Bill was affiliated with the Boston Film and Video Foundation and wrote, produced and directed several short films (Feline du Jour, Divorced, The Bridge and Suitcase Drill). He also studied screenwriting at the Harvard University Extension School in Cambridge and filmmakiing with Hungarian filmmaker/playwright, Miklos Vamos at Connecticut College where he directed the short film, No Time. Receiving his bachelor's degree in journalism from California State University, Long Beach, Bill had concentrations in music, art, psychology and history. He also taught computer programming at Thames Valley State Technical College in Connecticut, weight training at the YMCA and was a Senior Configuration Management Analyst for General Dynamics.

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