Joe Bowden(V)
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Director
- Writer
Joe Bowden is a mixed-race Japanese, Korean, and white director, writer, and cinematographer. Raised in Anchorage, Alaska he started making films in the late 1990's on a Sony Handicam he used to shoot skateboarding videos. In 2001 he moved to Portland, Oregon to pursue film and music co-founding record label Bladen County Records in 2007. In 2016 he founded Desert Island Studios a production company dedicated to creating entertaining and challenging films with diversity, equity, inclusion, and accountability at the heart of the process. In 2020 he directed and was the cinematographer of the award winning short film Private Chat starring Ashley Song. In 2021 he wrote and directed Two Detectives a short film starring frequent collaborator and avant-garde filmmaker Noel David Taylor that premiered at the Austin Comedy Film Festival and was a Finalist for Best Director at the Portland Comedy Film Festival. In 2021 he was the cinematographer of the feature film The Value of Nothing directed by Kelly Godell. In 2022 he wrote, directed, and was the Director of Photography for Planet #5, a sci-fi short/music video that won the award for best music video at Oregon Short Film Festival. Later that year he was the cinematographer for Color Theories Directed by Devin Febbroriello, which premiered at BUFF Malmo, and then FilmFort in the United States. In 2023 he was the cinematographer for At Skyview Enterprises a short Sci-fi thriller produced by Portland's Catalyst Film Collective.