Dan Peterson
Writer Director Producer
An Air Force veteran, Peterson utilized the G.I. bill to
attend
Columbia College film school.
Peterson's independent film, "Backroad Motel",
an anthology featuring fictional characters
inhabiting a dingy motel room somewhere along Route 66,
caught the attention of Jonathan Taplin, producer of,
among other films, Martin Scorsese's "Mean Streets".
So impressed by Peterson's film, Taplin transformed "Backroad Motel"
into one of the first internet series or "webisodes"
In between writing and filmmaking gigs,
He spent random periods of time as a writer for various TV shows,
a part time script typist for Quentin
Tarantino,
as well as driver/bodyguard for "Private
Dancers".
It was his experience as a driver that inspired
him to write, produce and direct,
"Have Love, Will Travel"
a starkly honest and unflinching journey into
a dark underground world of the Los Angeles mobile sex trade.
Subsequently "Have Love, Will Travel"
grabbed the attention of
Sundance Film Festival Programmers, Trevor
Groth & Mike Plant
who invited him to world premiere at their
own CineVegas Film Festival.
Peterson's current Film Projects include:
the currently in post production subversive love story:
and the teenage drama to be shot this summer,