Bio

Jules Carrozza was born in Boston, MA on September 21st, 1986. At age 5, after watching Ishiro Honda's classic original Godzilla (though sadly it was the Raymond Burr version), he immediately knew what he wanted to be: a famous director of films. At age 10, he got his hands on a Hi8 video camera and made his first movie, Godzilla vs. the Space Monster. A crappy short done in terrible stop motion animation, he followed it up with several other pieces of shit which he is now too embarrassed to talk about now, but hey, everybody has to start somewhere. At the age of 12 he began to expand his tastes in film and started writing as well (namely very, very crappy reviews for the Japanese Horror Movie Database and IMDb). At age 13, he discovered Japanese animation through the wonders of Pokemon. His teenage days were tough, tough times for him. He prefers not to talk about them, but one incident landed a 14 year old Jules in a mental institution for a week and then in a school for juvenile delinquents, from which the idea for Madhouse sprung. Getting out of the juvie school, he  dropped out of public school and went into a home-schooling program. At age 15, Jules' filmmaking flame was rekindled after seeing the first film in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Under the pseudonym Kojiro Abe, at first he refined his editing skills putting together several music videos intended to be nostalgic tributes to his early childhood combining film clips with music. That more serious work started with The Big Toe, a 9 minute epic loosely based on a Southern folktale he got out of Alvin Schwartz's Scary Stories to Read in the Dark. Despite some harsh criticism (mostly from asshats who disliked Jules as a person), Jules is still relatively proud of the film. He followed that film up a year later with The Boy Who Cried Wolf: Extra Gory Version, a film he is not all that proud of. He also produced his three Aquatic Observations films, in which he created experimentally to hone his editing skills in 2003 (and 2004-05).

While he did produce any films in 2004 (though he shot the third Aquatic Observations film that year while on vacation in Disney World), it was a fairly productive year. He met Tokyoscope author Patrick Macias and began a friendship with the man, who interviewed him for the Japanese magazine Eiga Hiho (Movie Treasures) and later gave him a job writing wacky columns and reviews for Animerica magazine. Sadly the Animerica bit did not last long as Animerica went out of print in June 2005 after Jules' sixth column. In 2005, Carrozza returned to form and after finishing up Aquatic Observations 3, started work on a new short film entitled Harold, also based on a folktale from Scary Stories to Read in the Dark. Jules put up $700 of his own money to buy the props and film it entirely on Super 8 film. Eventually canning the Abe nom-de-plume, in 2006 came Little Red Riding Hood, no doubt his finest film yet, his first film shot with a real cast and with a meticulous amount of effort thrown in. It will be released to DVD on Halloween. His follow-up to Little Red Riding Hood will be Film Club, a movie about cult movies and the people who watch them.