Past Featuresd Films

Doomed to Failure
(DOCUMENTARY, 7 minutes, 12 seconds)

What started as the story of three pizza deliverymen and their boss turns into a story of four filmmakers and their struggles as they watch their movie crumble.  This comically cynical look into filmmaking is the true story of what happens when inexperience meets broken equipment.

Filmmaker Profile:  DJ Summitt

The director/editor of Doomed to Failure, DJ Summitt, grew up in Lexington, NC, where he started making movies with his best friend.  In May of 2003 he graduated from UNC- Greensboro with a degree in film.  Summitt has been working in freelance production since 2001 and has helped in the production of national and regional commercials for production companies in Charlotte, Greensboro, Raleigh, Baltimore, and Washington, DC.  His feature film credits include Chainsaw Sally and the upcoming BloodShadow.

Local Angles

• DJ Summitt, director of Doomed to Failure, was born in Gastonia, NC and grew up in Lexington where he began making short films with his best friend.
• Summitt pursued film making at UNC-Greensboro where he attained an internship at Paradox Films + Design in Charlotte.
• Co-Producers Desmond Johnson and Caleb Falls, both hail from Kernersville, NC. They form the hip-hop group LiveWire, which supplied the music for the film. They perform frequently in the Triad area.
• The entire cast and crew is made up of students at UNC-Greensboro, most of them North Carolina natives.
• Doomed to Failure was shot entirely in Greensboro, Winston-Salem, Kernersville, and McCleansville.
• Doomed to Failure premiered at the 2003 High Point Independent Film Festival where it won the Judge's Award for best film.