Ilo Orleans is a director, producer and writer with decades of experience across all aspects of film and video production. He began his filmmaking career as many great directors do - as an actor. Born in Livingston, N.J. he attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in N.Y.C. as a teenager and skipped his senior year of high school to attend Syracuse University's renowned acting/directing program. Ilo is an award-winning director with festival favorite film shorts Click (2003) and Dearly Departed (2010), documentary films for The National Science Foundation Ascent: Women, Science and Change (2013) and co-producer on My Buddy Bill (2008) for Emmy award-winning writer, Rick Cleveland at HBO's Aspen Comedy Festival and again filmed for Comedy Central. Orleans' short film Dearly Departed (2010), written by Marjory Kaptanoglu, premiered at Santa Barbara International Film Festival, and his first breakthrough short film, Click (2003), screened at over one hundred film festivals worldwide - winning the prestigious audience award for best international short in Brazil and distributed by the 'Canadian Filmmakers' Distribution Centre'. Joining forces with film editor Phyllis Housen, Orleans formed ad hoc productions to bring the narrative fiction feature film, Slander, a political thriller adapted from the novel, Gossip, written by Christopher Bram from page to screen. Orleans wrote the award-winning script with Housen and Kaptanoglu and is slated to direct the film in N.Y.C. and D.C. in 2017. He has directed and produced innumerable marketing videos for a wide array of clients including Google, Microsoft, Oracle, Dell, Trulia, The New York Times, Logitech, Stanford University and hundreds of company culture profiles for major tech companies and start-ups. He currently directs and produces videos and commercials with Friday's Films based in the San Francisco Film Centre. Show less «