2002 Great Lakes Independent Film Festival

Lost Thoughts

World Premiere
Category: Narrative Short  9min
Director: Daniel Roew

A dark, twisted, yet sometimes humorous look inside the mind of Curtis Slade as he is driven to homicide and eventual suicide by his Girlfriend.  Lost Thoughts begins in the middle of Curtis' story as he tells us how the woman in his life literally drove him away.  Curtis ends up having an accident in the middle of nowhere.  Thinking he hit a deer, he learns it is another man.  Not knowing what to do, Curtis searches for clues and imagines this man to have shared the same thoughts of homicide and suicide.  He takes it upon himself to give this stranger a proper burial.  After sobering up the next morning, Curtis attempts to live with his decisions and returns home to reconstruct his life.

Principal Cast:
Lance Swegart  
Monica VanLaer  
Morgan Read-Davidson  

Director: Daniel Roew
Daniel Roew, 22-year-old producer, writer and director from Wichita, Kansas, is one of the rising young talents in the film industry.  He made his first 16mm short film, "Lost Thoughts," a short black and white film about a man who is literary driven to suicide by his girlfriend. His career took off in 1998 when he moved to California after graduation to attend College at the Chapman University School of Film and Television where he earned a B.F.A. in film production with an emphasis in directing in 2002. Roew was the co-producer and director of photography in a short documentary "Diary of a filmmaker," featuring Ori Greenberg, for the Independent Film Channel in 2001. He also was approached by an executive to re-produced and edit a previously televised Fox Ski event for Microsoft WebTV in 2000. Roew is currently completing his second film "Be Your Own Boss" a short story about a company executive who struggles to maintain a sense of reality