Groomed from the start to brush shoulders with the world's premier filmmakers, Patrick was brought up on the sunny beaches of Cannes, France. A French-speaking paradise, bilingual education, and European adventures filled his childhood until that special moment every artist experiences at some point in their life: the darkened projection room, the spine-tingling realization that this was it. Cinema. That was the path for him. From then on, Patrick thrived on a diet of VHS tapes imported from across the English channel. Wearing one magnetic strip down at a time, his love of movies grew: weekly rituals of Indiana Jones followed by Star Wars and of course the perennial favorite, James Bond.
At seventeen, Patrick packed two duffel bags and traveled across the oceans and the continents to get himself where he knew he belonged: USC film school. Four years of academics and hands on training later, Patrick graduated and explored Asia, studying martial arts and Chinese along the way. Upon his return stateside, he began his film career in earnest. Plunging headfirst into the world of film production, he penned four feature scripts while learning to produce his own projects.
In 2008, Patrick founded LoneShark Studios alongside the infamous Jon "NY" Ehlers and Jason "Story-Meister" Radspinner. A revolutionary way of approaching teamwork in filmmaking, LoneShark has quickly grown to become a model appreciated by collaborators, both for it's endless creativity and it's ruthless efficiency. And, having finally discovered his true partners in crime with LoneShark, Patrick directed his first short film "Static" about post-apocalyptic survival. This was soon followed by the web-series "Nowhere Mary" about a schizophrenic woman whose strange behavior seems to stem from mysterious celestial origins. At the same time Patrick continued the empire building with LoneShark as they assembled a veritable arsenal of projects, ready for the leap into feature filmmaking and television projects.
And now, in the very futuristic sounding "20-10", Patrick will be returning to the famous town where it all started, this time with a feature under his belt. The first LoneShark film is slated to be shot in spring, just in time for a victory lap (preferably in an Alfa Romeo) of the Croisette in Cannes.
