AARON PAUL LOVETT

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Aaron is a filmmaker, writer, and content creator based in Los Angeles, by way of New York. He has produced work shown at independent film festivals including Indie Memphis, RiverRun, and Indie Grits, among others. As a writer, his screenplays and short stories center LGBTQ characters in conflict with powerful social systems, and address themes of loss, intimacy, and self-actualization. 

Aaron has shot and edited videos for BuzzFeed, NowThis, VaynerX, and a variety of other clients. For a full list of his professional experiences, see his resume. 

Photo by Ana Fangayen

RESUME

2021

SELECTED AWARDS, SCREENINGS, & PUBLICATIONS

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Screenings 

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Official Selection, RiverRun International Film Festival 2018: Gays for Trump?

Official Selection, Indie Grits Film Festival 2018: Gays for Trump?

Official Selection, Drunken Film Fest 2018: Gays for Trump?

Official Selection, Indie Memphis Film Festival 2017: Gays for Trump?

Official Selection, Carrboro Film Festival 2017: Gays for Trump?

Official Selection, Swain Lot Film Festival 2016: They Lived

Official Selection, Carrboro Film Festival 2016: MILK

Official Selection, Ozark Shorts 2016: MILK

Official Selection, VHS Mixtape Vol. 1 2016: MILK

Official Selection, Bogota Experimental Film Festival 2015: MILK

Awards

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First Place, RiverRun International Film Festival PitchFest, 2017: Gays for Trump?

John Hope Franklin Documentary Award, 2017: Sights & Sounds from the Homeland

Sexuality Studies Creative Projects Award, UNC, 2017: Gays for Trump?

Suzanne Bolch Award, 2017

Gerald Unks Fellowship 2017

Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Fellowship, 2016 & 2017

Third Place in Fiction, Cellar Door, 2016: Waiting

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Publications, Gallery Showings, Residencies & Workshops

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Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA) Writer-in-Residence,  2020

America's Emerging Writers – An Anthology of Nonfiction, 2018: Doors

Group Exhibition, Carrack Modern Art, 2017: Sights and Sounds

Group Exhibition – Image in Motion, 2017: Movement Four

Cellar Door, 2016: In Bed

Berklee College of Music Film Scoring Workshop, 2016: They Lived

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CONTACT

aaronplovett@gmail.com

704-724-7744