Ken Lewis

Sometimes the person is merely a prop in the overall image, at least that's what Chicago-based filmmaker Ken Lewis of UrbanLenz says. With a tagline of "finding the most stunning beauty in the most urban of places", Ken is quite adept at using natural environments to capture stunning backdrops for photo and video compositions. Starting out as a photographer, Ken quickly became obsessed with the video capabilities of his DSLR camera and started to make video compositions for local artists. After posting a quick 7-minute dialogue-free passion project entitled "Jean" (a story about addiction and depression), he was encouraged by many to enter into the film festival circuit. Surprisingly, it was accepted and has been screened at the Cinema New York film festival and was a semi-finalist in both the London and Washington International film festivals. After that project, he decided to take filmmaking much more seriously and began writing several screenplays trying to strategically determine which one of them would be made into his next film.