Alan Rowe Kelly is an award-winning director, writer & genre star of independent horror movies. His production company, SouthPaw Pictures, is based out of Paterson, NJ.

His debut film I'LL BURY YOU TOMORROW (2002) won numerous awards at film festivals worldwide, most notably the 2002 Telluride Indiefest and his second film, THE BLOOD SHED (2007), followed suit with a BEST FEATURE win at the 2007 Dark Carnival Film Fest and BEST PROSTHETICS at the 2007 Fear In New Orleans Film Festival.

Alan Rowe has completed filming the horror anthology GALLERY OF FEAR. He wrote and directed three of the tales, A FAR CRY FROM HOME, CRITIC'S CHOICE and DOWN THE DRAIN, and also served as co-producer and art director on the fourth story, Anthony G. Sumner's film adaptation of Douglas Smith's chilling short story BY HER HAND. GALLERY OF FEAR boasts an all-star genre cast!

A FAR CRY FROM HOME, a controversial tale of hate, murder and homophobia, is receiving rave reviews and has been officially selected to screen at the DARK CARNIVAL FILM FESTIVAL, TROMADANCE! and FANGORIA'S WEEKEND OF HORRORS in Chicago.

Alan Rowe has appeared in over 20 films: I'LL BURY YOU TOMORROW, THE BLOOD SHED, A FAR CRY FROM HOME, W.O.R.M., DEAD SERIOUS, VINDICATION, SKINNED ALIVE!, PINK EYE, CROSSED, THE DEVOURED, SATAN HATES YOU, SCULPTURE., as well as the upcoming film roles in EXPERIMENT 7 (He is also directing the NY sequences), DON'T LOOK IN THE BASEMENT! and STRONGER THAN DEATH.

Presently, Alan Rowe is in pre-production for a retelling of S.F. Brownrigg's classic 1973 drive-in shocker DON'T LOOK IN THE BASEMENT! and will direct and act in Colossus Productions' STRONGER THAN DEATH. He has completed scripts for SPORE!, A MURDER OF CROWS, UNHALLOWED GROUND, HELL'S BELLES, YOU BETTER WATCH OUT! and is updating the 1948 Edna Sherry suspense tale SUDDEN FEAR (which became a classic 1952 Joan Crawford film noir thriller) for the screen in which he will play a famous playwright marked for murder. Alan Rowe has also published a book called WHARTON - a history log of the small North New Jersey mining town where he was born and raised, and recently wrote the forward for the newly released book about independent horror cinema, FILM BRAWL by Brian Harris.more...