THE CREATIVE EFFORTS OF KERYN THOMPSON
Works from film, video projects, non-profit campaigns, and commercial campaigns in various producing and art directing positions.
Daddy Don’t Go is a feature length documentary that chronicles the lives of four disadvantaged men in New York City as they struggle to be good fathers. Alex, Nelson, Roy and Omar shatter the deadbeat dad stereotype and redefine what it means to be a good father for all men. Directed by Emily Abt and Executive Produced by Omar Epps, Malik Yoba and Jennifer Fox under Pureland Pictures, Inc.
Daddy Don't Go premiered at the 2015 DOC NYC Film Festival, won Best Documentary Film at the 2016 Urbanworld Film Festival and the 2016 American Black Film Festival, and is currently airing on the STARZ Network. Find out more about the film here.
"A stirring film." -Variety, Nick Schager
"One of the year's most touching documentaries." -Criterion, Joshua Brunsting
Title: Producer & Art Director
Toe to Toe is Director Emily Abt's first narrative feature about an interracial friendship between high school girls set in Washington, DC. (Starring "The Walking Dead's" Sonequa Martin-Green).
"If Toe to Toe were a young-adult novel, it would be embraced and argued about in classrooms and eagerly read by thoughtful teenage girls. The film's observations about race, class and friendship are clear and accessible without being overly didactic, and its sometimes harsh candor about female sexuality would not be unfamiliar to devotees of contemporary adolescent literature..." -A.O. Scott, The New York Times. Directed by Emily Abt under Pureland Pictures.
Premiered in Dramatic Competition at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, aired on the Sundance Channel, and distributed by Strand Releasing.
Title: Associate Producer & Music Coordinator
In the South Bronx, a young doctor embarks on a research project to find out why black women are being infected with the HIV virus at an alarming rate. Dr. Mehret Mandefro takes us into the lives and relationships of two of her female patients, Chevelle and Tara, as they identify and struggle with the social factors that put them at risk. Directed by Emily Abt under Pureland Pictures, Inc.
“All of Us is a powerful, conceptually sure film that is a model of documentary method and compassionate social filmmaking... A striking feminist inquiry." -Nathan Lee, New York Times
Premiered as the Showtime Network's 2008 World AIDS Day Film.
Title: Outreach Coordinator
A psychological thriller that delves into the horror of human empathy. Starring James Duval and Rachel Jane Conn and directed by Corynn Egreczky and Nick Principe under Penny Spent Films.
Distributed by Wide Eye Releasing
Title: Producer
When things get tough, the tough throws a party. A short film by Emily Abt.
Part of Bloomingdale's Young Indies campaign.
Title: Set Dresser & Prop Design
A video celebrating 100 years of advocacy and service of the Center for Hearing and Communication (new name for the League for the Hard of Hearing). CHC provides hearing rehabilitation and human services for people who are hard of hearing or deaf, and their families, regardless of age, ability to pay, or mode of communication, and by striving to empower consumers to achieve their potential. The video was produced by Pureland Pictures purelandpictures.com. Find out more at CHChearing.org.
Title: Producer
A video done for The Way to Work's 75th Anniversary in New York City. The Way to Work is committed to empowering young New Yorkers ages 17-24 with the tools needed to achieve their highest potential. Formerly known as the Vocational Foundation, Inc. or VFI, TWTW has created lasting impact through their comprehensive, individualized approach to career training, GED preparation, professional and personal counseling, job placement and retention services. Visit TWTW's website for more information. Produced under Pureland Pictures.
Title: Producer
A video done for the Center for Hearing and Communication for their annual gala in 2011. Produced under Pureland Pictures.
Title: Producer
Various works from commissioned and personal projects.
For a commissioned piece, please contact kerynthompson@gmail.com
Digital
Digital
Digital
Digital
Commissioned piece for a private client
Pen & Digital
Pen & Ink
11 x 14 inches
Used for the band Johnny B. Morbid's Fall of the Cicada album release and promotional materials.
Pen & Digital
Pen & Digital
9.5 x 12
Created for online travel/fashion/lifestyle publication, Nomad-Chic
Pen on Homemade Paper
9 x 7 inches
Pen & Marker on Handmade Paper
8 x 11 inches
Bird illustration for promotion of Stevie Nicks’ album, Crystal Visions.
Pen & Digital
Bird illustration for promotion of Stevie Nicks’ album, Crystal Visions.
Pen & Digital
Pen on Handmade Paper
8 x 11 inches
Side project of Danger Mouse
Directed, Created & Animated by Hayley Morris
Produced additional Replacement Animation & Puppet Props
Pencil on Paper
4 x 6.25 inches
Premiered on The Sundance Channel
Pencil & Digital
8 x 10 inches
Digital
11 x 17 inches
Acrylic on Wood
12 x 24 inches
(Created for a Breast Cancer Awareness Show)
Personal and commercial projects.
For a commissioned piece, please contact kerynthompson@gmail.com
Traditional 2D and Digital
Under the production company Greencard Pictures I took part in the post clean-up of many of the background images.
From all outward appearances, Pippa Lee (ROBIN WRIGHT PENN) leads a charmed existence. An anchor of feminine serenity, she is the devoted wife of an accomplished publisher (ALAN ARKIN) thirty years her senior, the proud mother of two grown children, and a trusted friend and confidant to all who cross her path. But as Pippa dutifully follows her husband to a new life in a staid Connecticut retirement community, her idyllic world and the persona she has built over the course of her marriage will be put to the ultimate test.
Premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival and distributed by Icon.
Title: Assistant Animator (Asterick Animation)
Side project of Danger Mouse
Directed, Created & Animated by Hayley Morris
Produced Replacement Animation & Puppet Props
Rhode Island School of Design Thesis Piece
Traditional 2D and Digital
Flash
All pieces are from various sketchbooks (physical and digital), receipts, random pieces of scrap paper, and margins of important documents over the years.
For a commissioned piece, please contact kerynthompson@gmail.com
Digital
Colored Pencil
Pen & Ink
Pen & Ink
Digital
Blue Pencil
Pencil
Blue Pencil
Blue Pencil
Blue Pencil
Bic Pen
Blue Pencil
Bic Pen
Bic Pen
Colored Pencils
Various graphic design works from over the years.
For a commissioned piece, please contact kerynthompson@gmail.com
Promotional poster for Gutter Gallery Art Show in Asbury Park, NJ
Adobe Photoshop & Adobe Illustrator
Promo poster for Needs More Butter Art Show in Bradley Beach, NJ
Pen & Adobe Illustrator
Promotional piece for the band The Films (signed to Warner Bros. Records).
Pencil and Photoshop
Postcard for promotional purposes to support the documentary film, Daddy Don't Go.
Adobe Illustrator
Poster for social issue documentary, Daddy Don't Go
Adobe Illustrator
My amateur photography.
The Bayshore Beach Clubhouse in Toms River, NJ two days after Hurricane Sandy.
Nikon D600
My friend Carmen's neighborhood in Belmar, NJ three days after Hurricane Sandy.
Nikon D600
Joy in her Bay Head, NJ home. The first floor flooded when the bay met the ocean during Hurricane Sandy.
Nikon D600
Bianca the Cat
Nikon D600