The Biography

Jeff Kirkendall is an independent digital filmmaker & actor from Upstate New York. He has been passionately involved in making and promoting independent films since 1996 and has acted in over 100 movies to date. His first acting credit was in the 1994 feature Black Easter, which starred indie film luminary Debbie Rochon and Hammer movie legend Veronica Carlson. Jeff is a longtime fan of cinema. As part of a Communications degree program at The College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York he studied studio and field video production using analog (VHS) cameras and linear editing decks. He then began investing a substantial amount of time in self-study, training in non-linear post-production editing programs such as Adobe Premiere & Encore. Following graduation from college Jeff set out to produce his own independent shot-on-video (S.O.V.) movies. His early productions include the action/horror movies Terror of the Master and The Temptress, and the comedy Of Theatre & Bikinis, all produced entirely in the Capital Region of Upstate New York utilizing local talent. In addition to his own directorial projects, Jeff has served as Associate Producer & Editor on movies produced by other area filmmakers, including the features Killeidoscope, Project D: Classified, The Edge of Reality, London After Midnight and Bruce G. Hallenbeck's The Drowned. Jeff was also featured in the independent documentary Every Pixel Tells A Story from Albany Times Union newspaper writer Peter Hanson, which includes interviews with several leading Capital Region filmmakers shooting in the groundbreaking digital video format. As an actor Mr. Kirkendall has appeared in over 100 movies to date, such as Project D: Classified, The Drowned, Bloodlust, and several from Polonia Brothers Entertainment (PBE) directed by indie filmmaker Mark Polonia. These include Four Nights in Fear Forest, Cocaine Werewolf, The Girl Who Wore Yellow Lace, Amityville in Space, Amityville Exorcism, Sharkula, Feeders 3, Jurassic Prey, Sharkenstein, Bigfoot Vs. Zombies, Amityville Death House, It Kills Camp Blood 7, Empire of the Apes, Noah's Shark, Jurassic Shark 2 & 3, Cocaine Shark and Yule Log.