A.J. Bond | Producer/Editor
A former child actor, A.J. Bond has worked in the Vancouver film community in various capacities for the last decade. In 2003, A.J. graduated from the UBC Film Programme, where he wrote and directed the short film Repeat. For his graduating project, A.J. served as producer and editor of the award-winning Why the Anderson Children Didn’t Come to Dinner, which played at over fifty film festivals worldwide. Numerous editing projects followed, including the short film My Old Man (TIFF 2004), based on the works of Charles Bukowski, and two short, behind-the-scenes documentaries for Ben Harper and the Blind Boys of Alabama. In 2004, A.J. incorporated Modern Family Productions with Jamie Travis and Amy Belling and the trio began developing their second short film, The Saddest Boy in the World, which premiered in 2006 at the Toronto International Film Festival. Meanwhile A.J. produced and edited Patterns, the award-winning first installment of The Patterns Trilogy. While attending the 2005 Editors’ Lab at the Canadian Film Centre, A.J. edited the short comedy If I See Randy Again, Do You Want Me to Hit Him with the Axe? (TIFF 2006). Since completing Patterns 2 and Patterns 3, A.J. has written and directed the award-winning short film, Hirsute (TIFF 2007) and is currently developing his first feature film.
aj@thepatternstrilogy.comwww.thesiblings.ca