Damon Packard

The name which could have been synonymous with Steven Spielberg. Packard grew up in a rural district of Akron. His father Ray Packard was a professor of fine arts and highly regarded artist/collector/gallery-owner of Akron. The Packard Gallery on W. Exchange St was a well known staple in the 60s & 70s, with its statue of Minerva and three Packard automobiles parked in front, art collectors and other notable clientele (which included Orson Welles) had frequented the place. Packard's mother Francis was a stage and commercial actress of Akron whose career was cut short by her passing from a strange illness in 1968. It can be noted that she had almost married the actor Kier Dullea a few years earlier. Packard spent his later early years growing up in Chatsworth, California and began making experimental films in 1979 at the age of 11, the first of which were a series of animated and stop motion shorts, some made for school credit. In the early 80s Packard embarked on a series of ambitious productions (Amazing Stories, The Afterlife, Werewolf Hunters, etc) the prior mentioned preceded, but had no direct connection with the mid-80s Spielberg TV series. With a wide string of Super 8, 16mm and later Digital features and shorts like "Dawn of an Evil Millennium" (1988) "Reflections of Evil" (2002) "The Untitled Star Wars Mockumentary" (2003) "Foxfur (2012) "SpaceDisco One" (2008) "Fatal Pulse aka The Untitled Yuppie Fear Thriller" (2018) "Howl of the Unvaccinated" (2022). and many others including a recent growing swarm of (some award winning) AI shorts which have been written and talked about in various publications. Packard's rabid fan base continues to grow as well as his bank account. He now resides in the Hollywood Hills in the position of money and power he always aimed for.