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Todd Verow

Todd Verow
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About

Todd Verow (born November 11, 1966, Bangor, Maine) is an American independent filmmaker, producer and cinematographer based in New York City. Together with James Derek Dwyer he runs Bangor Films (est. 1995) and has directed more than sixty films, earning him the title of the most prolific auteur of the New Queer Cinema movement. He made his feature debut with Frisk (1996) and was among the first directors to commit fully to digital video, famously declaring "film is dead" in 1997. His work has screened at Sundance, Berlin, BFI Flare and beyond, with retrospectives held in New York, Paris, Madrid, Berlin and Sydney.

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  • 2026-04

    The documentary film Behind the Open Door (2025) had its American premiere in April 2026 at the New York Anthology Film Archives.

  • 2026-04

    The magazine Vada Magazine published in April 2026 an interview with Verow about the film Behind the Open Door and about the return of the New Queer Cinema movement.

  • 2026-03

    The film Memorabilia (2024) had its British premiere at the BFI Flare festival in London and was subsequently shown at the cinema The Arzner in the presence of Verow.

  • 2025-10

    The documentary film Behind the Open Door had its world premiere in October 2025 at the Pornfilmfestival Berlin at the Moviemento cinema.

  • 2025-03

    The film Memorabilia (2024), the last collaboration of Verow with the late Charles Lum, was shown at the BFI Flare 2025 festival in London.

Tracks

Friskfeature film debut (1996), adaptation of Dennis Cooper's novel, breakthrough New Queer Cinema film
You Can't Stay Herethriller set in the AIDS epidemic of the 1990s (2023/2024), starring Guillermo Diaz; premiere at IFC Center NYC
Memorabiliaexperimental film on Super 8 (2024), final collaboration with Charles Lum; BFI Flare 2025
Behind the Open Doordocumentary film (2025); world premiere at Pornfilmfestival Berlin, American premiere at Anthology Film Archives 2026
Bottomdocumentary film (2012), predecessor to Behind the Open Door; exploration of queer sexuality

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