Hugh Dimauro

Hugh DiMauro's love affair with movies started at a young age when his father took him to see Goldfinger in a huge, single screen movie theater. After that, he incessantly pestered anyone and everyone to take him to the movies. No longer satisfied with just watching movies, Hugh started making his own films in the mid-1970s with his father's silent, GAF Super-8 movie camera. When not washing dishes at the various Atlantic City, New Jersey, restaurants, the Summers of his Jersey Shore youth were spent with friends, brainstorming short movie ideas to entertain the adults. At 18, reality hit and Hugh realized making movies cost money. Lots of money. Temporarily unable to continue his passion for filmmaking, Hugh enlisted in the United States Marines and for the next four years served his country where and when needed. Upon his discharge, Hugh earned his Masters of Science from St. Joseph's University, Philadelphia, and for the next thirty years of his life, became a police officer and eventually a detective, still dabbling in freelance writing, completing nine, optioned, full length motion picture screenplays, none of which sold. In the late 1990s, with the advent of affordable digital video, Hugh once again picked up a camera and wrote, produced, directed and edited wedding videos, various training videos, commercials, informational videos, public service videos, narrative shorts and one full length feature, entitled "Lost River," an official selection at the 2011 Sun Valley Film Festival. Hugh also "four walled" Lost River along with his co-director, Kieran Donahue, the star of A & E's Emmy nominated documentary, "No Greater Law," at select Southwest Idaho movie theaters. Since then, Hugh has continued to write and shoot narrative short movies and enjoys working with trained and untrained actors. Hugh likes the directorial challenge of eliciting good performances as well as offering actors from all walks of life opportunities to act in independent films. Hugh welcomes actor feedback and creative contribution, giving his performers the opportunity and artistic freedom to deliver memorable, realistic and three dimensional on screen character portrayals.