Gangsta Island - Podcast

Ken Lewis is an award winning innovate film writer/director based in the Chicagoland area. Not one for producing the standard narrative, Ken has a penchant for witty satires and clever plot twists. In his first film “Jean”, he covered the chronological sequence of a young, depressed woman driven to drug addiction. At the end of the film, he left the viewer to interpret the fate of the film’s protagonist. His 2nd film, The Final Interrogation”, focused on the consequences of sacrificing your own well-being for other people who may be undeserving. The film was critically acclaimed because it led the viewer to believe that the lead character was being interrogated by a police officer about a murder that he committed when actually it was HIM who was murdered and that the “interrogation officer” was his deceased mother talking to him from purgatory. In his most recent work, “Miss Represent”, he takes the ever-familiar social media world and turns it into an actual place (a living room). Using clever dialogues and deliberate exaggerations that fit the genre, Ken giggles the excessive use of social media and brings a beautiful message: being your true self is all you really need. “Miss Represent” went to over 30 film festivals and took home 6 total awards. Ken holds both an undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering and an MBA from Purdue University. He lives in Country Club Hills, IL with his wife and two daughters and enjoys honing his craft at filmmaking, a good craft beer and cigar, and all things technology.