Dylan Kai Dempsey

Dylan Kai Dempsey is an NYC-based writer/ filmmaker. His pilot script for #Likes4Lucas has been a finalist in numerous competitions for both Drama AND Comedy. Featured in Roy W. Dean's "Hot Films in the Making," the project is fiscally sponsored by the New York Foundation for the Arts and received the New York State Council on the Arts' prestigious Individual Artists grant. In 2015, Dempsey graduated cum laude from Tufts University. As an undergrad, he taught film & TV, both at Tufts and at a film school in Paris- and was awarded Tufts' first C.J. Saraceno Film Scholarship. Since then, he has been a film critic and journalist, covering major festivals, writing reviews and social analyses. In the fall of 2019, he was one of the first American critics invited to cover the "Sundance of China": the Pingyao International Film Festival. Published in Vanity Fair, Variety, No Film School, Ioncinema, and Nonfiction, Dempsey's work has received many thousands of views, shares and likes. Since 2016, he has profiled Guillermo Del Toro, Jordan Peele, JJ Abrams, Paul Verhoeven, Agnès Varda and Barry Jenkins, among others. He has also worked in development: for Albert Berger & Ron Yerxa at Bona Fide Productions in LA (Little Miss Sunshine, Nebraska,The Leftovers); for Tracey Scoffield & Frank Doelger at Rainmark Films in London (Game of Thrones).