Monté Patterson

Films

Ghost Town

2006

Writer · Director · Editor — Documentary

A city transformed, recorded before the record closed. Made on no budget and awarded for it.

International "No Budget" Award — Cinematexas Barbara Aronofsky Latham Memorial Award — Outstanding Emerging Video Artist

Ghost Town title card — A City Transformed

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Caught

2010

Writer · Director · Editor — Short Film

A 1962 police entrapment in Mansfield, Ohio, staged as it was lived — the beginning of a through-line that would run sixteen years and end up in prose.

Honorable Mention — Columbus International Film Festival Official Selection — Atlanta Film Festival, 2011 Official Selection — Reeling Film Festival

Inside-Out, Outside-In

In Production

Storyboard Artist — Feature (dir. Hunter Lee Hughes)

Visual development for a feature currently in production.

Storyboard sample and companion illustration — sequence and camera direction laid out panel to panel.

Books & Publishing

Memoir · 2026

A Pilgrimage

A Search for Witness in the Age of the Algorithm

Cover veiled

Reveal full title & cover — NSFW

Why Doesn't Anybody Want to Fuck Me?: A Pilgrimage — A Search for Witness in the Age of the Algorithm

Reader with the book — In the wild · Manhattan

A cross-country Greyhound pilgrimage and the search for someone to witness it. Independently published.

Amazon

Illustrator · Novel

Don't Worry: It's Just a Dream

A novel by Lee Davidson

Illustration throughout. Available in print, Kindle, and Audible.

Amazon

Manifesto · 2014

The Final Image Manifesto

Published via The Final Image

The founding statement of a criticism platform now in its seventeenth year.

The Final Image

A film-criticism and multimedia operation built to 217,727 followers over a decade of continuous publishing. Its signature supercut format — including a Best Picture Oscar closing-shot montage — drew national press pickup from /Film and Mental Floss, and remains cited in film-scholarship contexts.

Video Essays & Supercuts Editorial Direction Festival Programming 10+ Interns Trained Annually Cross-Platform Publishing Audience Growth Strategy

Also in the studio The visual language carried through The Final Image and ALLEY3 starts here — painting is where it's been worked out by hand since well before any of it went digital.

Awards & Recognition

2008

Philo T. Farnsworth Award

Best Arts / Public Awareness Program

2006

Barbara Aronofsky Latham Memorial Award

Outstanding Emerging Video Artist — Cinematexas

2006

International "No Budget" Award

Ghost Town — Cinematexas

2010

Honorable Mention

Caught — Columbus International Film Festival

2005

BFA Fellowship Award

School of the Art Institute of Chicago

2002

Merit Scholarship

Art Institute of Chicago

2000

Best Video & Best Documentary

Pegasys Awards

Experience

2025—Present

Founder & Creative Director

ALLEY3™ · Brooklyn, NY

Leads end-to-end content production for an independent digital media platform: concept, editorial planning, writing, visual direction, production, and publication.
Manages a cross-functional pipeline integrating AI-assisted tools into editorial and visual workflows.
Built the brand systems and style standards governing voice, visual identity, and output quality.

2012—Present

Founder & Creative Director

The Final Image Films / Film Festival · Remote

Built a film-criticism and multimedia operation to 217,727 followers across a decade of continuous publishing.
Produced the signature supercut format that drove national press pickup and ongoing scholarly citation.
Recruited, trained, and managed 10+ interns annually across editorial, marketing, and social strategy.
Directed festival programming and audience-engagement initiatives.

2008—2012

Graduate Instructor & Teaching Assistant

Ohio University School of Film · Athens, OH

Designed and delivered instruction in storytelling, storyboarding, film history, and communication theory.
Trained and evaluated student work through structured feedback and coaching.
Managed lectures, visiting-artist coordination, and course administration across concurrent sections.

2005—2007

Production & Communications Coordinator / Video Producer

WPTA-TV · Access Fort Wayne · Fort Wayne Museum of Art

Produced, directed, and edited broadcast-ready video, documentary, arts, and promotional programming across three media organizations.
Wrote and distributed scripts; operated studio camera, motion graphics, audio mixing, lighting, and multi-camera production.
Conducted interviews, reporting, and on-location production under live and near-live deadlines.
Produced award-winning fine-arts documentaries and promotional packages for museum exhibitions.

2014—2016

Client Services Specialist

Toppan Merrill Printing Corporation · New York, NY

Managed high-volume communication workflows across internal teams and external clients in a deadline-driven, highly regulated financial printing environment.
Served as primary point of contact resolving complex service issues under time pressure.

Films

Ghost Town

Caught

Inside-Out, Outside-In

Books & Publishing

A Pilgrimage

Don't Worry: It's Just a Dream

The Final Image Manifesto

The Final Image

Awards & Recognition

Experience

Founder & Creative Director

Founder & Creative Director

Graduate Instructor & Teaching Assistant

Production & Communications Coordinator / Video Producer

Client Services Specialist

Education