Don Boner
- Producer
- Director
- Writer
Don attended the New York Film Academy's four-week intensive workshop.
He wrote and directed the critically acclaimed short movie Ripple in
August 2002 and The Bumbling Detective in October 2002. In November
2002 he completed Welcome to Kentuckiana. He is formerly the Director
of Product Development for Adman Software. He developed four games on a
TRS 80 Model I Level II in 1981, released by the Programmer's Guild and
Micro Fantasy: Thunder Road, Deadly Dungeon, Revenge of Balrog, and The
Fortress at Times-End. He is an award-winning wine maker and the author
of a beer-making manual. Don's first feature, a no-budget film noir
murder mystery, Losers Lounge won the Best Film Noir at the 2004 Bare
Bones International Independent Film Festival. His second feature,
Somewhere In Indiana was distributed by Echelon Entertainment, and
receive very good notices on Independent Film Internet sites as
B-Independent, Film Thread, and other web sites. Together with Chera
Federle, Don has co-written WLAC Nashville, a fictional dramatization
of the late night WLAC disc jockeys who played Rhythm and Blues during
the 50's through the early 1970's. The script was endorsed by The
Southern Legends Association, The Southern Legends Entertainment and
Performing Arts Hall of Fame and BluePower Network. Terry Stewart of
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, legendary R&B songwriter and
producer, Ted Jarrett, and A&R great, John Rhys Eddins give the project
their full support. Bob Timmers of The Rockabilly Hall of Fame loves
the story and believes "this story has to be told". The script WLAC Nashville was
sold as source material to an optioned Hollywood Writer in 2006.
Don has recently two scripts, The Return of the Demented Celery, an homage
to the science fiction movies of the 1950s and Wonton Sou, The case of the
Murdered Banker, a satire of Charlie Chan movies.