Dan Lamoureux

Dan Lamoureux is a native of the south suburbs of Chicago and has been writing, producing and directing his own films since the 8th grade.  Dan received a Media Fellowship from Saint Xavier University and completed his BA as well as his first feature length project in the spring of 2002.  In 2003 he founded the production company Crapbot Productions.  Over the years Dan has had pieces screen in film festivals all across the US, has acted in and crewed for countless independent film projects, and has won a number of high-profile film and video competitions.  He has also had his work viewed by millions of people online and has provided web content for companies such as Harley Davidson and Coors Light.

Dan’s primary interest though is documentary filmmaking.  In August 2005 a friend dragged Dan to see a “nerd rapper” named mc chris who was performing at the Double Door in Chicago.  The only reason he agreed to go was because mc chris had supplied voice talent to one of his favorite shows, Aqua Teen Hunger Force.  The performance was an astounding display of both Nerd pride and Nerd rage and before the evening was over Dan knew that he wanted to explore this world of Geek Rap that he would soon learn was known as “Nerdcore.”  Six months later, Dan began production of his first documentary, Nerdcore For Life. For the production, Dan and his crew traveled all across North America and spent more than 2 years filming the burgeoning Nerdcore Hip-Hop scene.  The documentary premiered to a sold-out crowd at the 2008 Wisconsin Film Festival and has since screened all across the U.S.  Since 2007, Nerdcore For Life has been covered by such news organizations as Newsweek, the New York Times, The Guardian, MTV Live, and NPR.  The film was picked up for international distribution by the U.K’s Journeyman pictures and will be available on DVD in January, 2010.

Dan still has close ties to the Nerdcore community and collaborates with Nerdcore artists frequently.  In 2007 Dan and Nerdcore rapper MC Router created the music video “Buggin’ Out!” as part of Axosoft.com’s “Geek to Geek” Marketing Campaign.  In 2008, Dan was one of the Grand Prize Winners of Paramount Pictures/Bad Robot Productions “Make your own Slusho Commercial” contest that was held to promote the release of the J.J. Abrams’ film, Cloverfield.  Later that year, Dan was named one of the winners in the 2016 Chicago Olympic Committee’s “Why Chicago?” contest for his short film entitled, Chicago = Awesome.

Dan’s latest project is a new documentary feature that should be completed by the spring of 2011.

Dan Lamoureux:  Selected Filmography:

Coors Light’s Blue Mountains (2009) Harley Davidson Museum documentary (2009) In Your Face, Chicago! (2009)  LOLcats music video (2008)  Chicago = Awesome (2008)  Nerdcore For Life (2008)  Slusho: Powering Good Times Everywhere (2008)  Buggin’ Out video (2007)  I, Crapbot (2005)  Pirates: Nature’s Scurviest Miracle (2004)  Runaway Lunch (2004)  My Very First Meth Lab (2002)  The Gullible Brain (2001)  The Trouble with Corpses (2000)  The Clash of the Dorks (2000)