Alexander Raye Pimentel

Alexander Raye Pimentel is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and military veteran. He is the Guild Ambassador of the DSLR Filmmakers Guild and has won a 'New York International Independent Film & Video Festival' and a 'Mundos Digitales' Award for Best Dramatic Short Build a Fire (2011). Pimentel's work addresses such themes as tragedy, revenge, turmoil, and violence. He has made several short films and many feature length micro budget B-Movies. His most significant and influential feature films being: I Call First (2015) an adaptation of Who's That Knocking at My Door (1967), Down River (2018) an adaptation of Fear and Desire (1953), The Directive (2019) a popular spin-off of The Division (2016) & The Division 2 (2019), and Rattle-Can an in-depth study of a Banksy / 'Lee' George Quinones / Jean Michel Basquiat type character. Alexander Raye Pimentel grew up in California and Georgia. Michael Pimentel, his father's Family, emigrated from Mexico while his mother is of Italian descent. Pimentel was raised in a devoutly Catholic environment. As a boy, he began to draw, paint, and write with his imagination. His inspiration came from his Uncle Allan Linder. It was at a young stage in his life that he developed passion for cinema. Enamored of historical epics in his adolescence, at least two films of the genre, Mean Streets (1973) and Dial M for Murder (1954), appear to have had a deep and lasting impact on his cinematic psyche. Pimentel also developed an admiration for minimalist Terrence Malick style filmmaking and neorealist John Cassavetes style cinema, which has inspired many of his films. Alexander Pimentel earned his Bachelor of Arts at The Art Institute. He continues to work with an undisputed motivation and passion, challenging the audience's intellect, and showing the raw reality of this vestigial world we live in. Pimentel is known for making a particular style of film labeled a 'Micro-Budget' Movie and/or 'B-Movie,' very much like those made by Roger Corman during the Drive-In Theater Era.