orLater Productions is dedicated to innovative filmmaking. Founded by Todd Davis, orLater has produced many short narrative and documentary films, including the award-winning In The Tradition of My Family (working title Through Line), screenplay by Todd Davis, based on the short story by Phil LaMarche. Todd has extensive directing experience with short film projects. His efforts contributed to numerous festival-selected and award-winning short films. Todd also has a strong interest in editing, having cut over 60 short narrative and documentary films, and was 1st assistant director on the mtvU/MSN/Boston University-produced sitcom pilot "Roller Palace". (Watch "Roller Palace" here.) Todd's IMDb.com entry

Todd Davis on the set of In The Tradition of My Family June 7, 2005 (Photograph by Christopher Plummer. ©2006 orLater Productions. All rights reserved.)

Todd is the owner of orLater Productions LLC (www.orlater.com), the production company for In The Tradition of My Family, featured at the following film festivals: New York Film Festival 2006 Philadelphia Film Festival 2006 - Best Narrative Short Rhode Island International Film Festival 2006 - Grand Prize, New England Student Competition Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2007 Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films 2006 Los Angeles International Short Film Festival 2006 Killington Film Festival 2007 - Best Short Film Plymouth Independent Film Festival 2006 - Best Student Film DC Independent Film Festival 2006 - Audience Award for Best Short Redstone West Showcase 2006 - 1st place Boston Film Night 2006 - Audience Favorite, Best Screen Actors Guild Film WorldFest Houston International Film Festival 2006 - Silver Remi Award for Cinematography Boston Underground Film Festival 2006 - Runner up, Most Promising New England Filmmaker Redstone Film Festival 2006 - 3rd place Longbaugh Film Festival 2006 - Best of Shorts encore program Munich International Festival of Film Schools 2006 - Nominated, Prix Interculturel for Best Film Fostering Intercultural Dialogue FAIF International Film Festival 2006 - Nominated, Best Supporting Actor (Paul Kmiec) Chicago Underground Film Festival 2006 - two screenings Napa Sonoma Wine Country Film Festival 2006 - two screenings Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival 2006 - screenings in Tel Aviv and Nazareth Santa Fe Film Festival 2006 - two screenings Chlotrudis Short Film Festival 2006/2007 - eight screenings Lake County Film Festival 2007 - two screenings West Chester Film Festival 2006 - two screenings Somewhat North of Boston Film Festival 2007 - two screenings Lake Forest Film Festival 2006 - two screenings The Artists' Exchange Short Film Festival 2007 - two screenings Humboldt Film Festival 2007 Big Bear Lake International Film Festival 2006 Northampton Independent Film Festival 2006 Rome (GA) International Film Festival 2007 Boston Cinema Census 2007 Filmstock International Film Festival 2006 Boston International Film Festival 2006 New England Film & Video Festival 2006 Delray Beach Film Festival 2006 Marblehead Festival of Arts Winter Film Festival 2007 New Hampshire Film Expo 2006 Chicago International REEL Shorts Festival 2006 Albuquerque Film Festival 2009 FilmGate International Student Film Festival 2006 Naked Eye College Film Festival 2006 Acton Boxborough Cultural Council OUR WORLD Film Festival 2009 North End Music and Performing Arts Center Short Film Festival 2009 International Student Film Festival Hollywood 2006 Century City Shorts & Screenplay Fest 2006

Todd holds an MFA degree in Film Production from Boston University. In The Tradition of My Family is his graduate thesis film. He received a merit scholarship from B.U. for his outstanding work, and was a teaching assistant for four semesters of the course 'Directing the Theatrical and Television Film.' He was named runner-up for The Most Promising New England Filmmaker award at the 2006 Boston Underground Film Festival. Todd also holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a master's degree from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He has taught undergraduate 16mm Film Production at both Curry College (see this link for an article on the course) and Fitchburg State College, and graduate-level digital editing at Boston University. Todd is teaching a screenwriting course at Curry College in the 2010 Summer II semester.