Monty Wolfe

Growing up gay in rural Louisiana Monty Wolfe battled his loneliness by immersing himself in cinema He found kinship and inspiration in the misfits and marginalized underdogs in movies His love of movies eventually matured into a love of filmmaking and he made his first films using a secondhand 8mm film camera After a decade in television news Monty moved to Portland Oregon where he attended Portland State University School of Film and received a BA in film As part of his studies he put together his first awardwinning gay short In Pieces Encouraged by that success Monty would go on to write produce direct and edit more awardwinning LGBTQthemed films His films teeter between earnest and ironic wholesome and decadent grounded and surreal