Joseph Strickland

Screenwriter/Director/Executive Producer at Vital Vision Productions, LLC
Director, Producer, Screenwriter and Author

Chicago, Illinois

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About Joseph

Joseph Strickland, born on November 9, 1962 in Chicago, Illinois, is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and author. A Writer's Guild of America West Coast member, Strickland got his start in music videos featuring well-known blues and jazz artists, industrial videos, and television programs for cable TV, as well as live productions.

Enrolled in Columbia College of Chicago - with a strong interest in art and writing - during the 1980s, Strickland was drawn to working on various student film projects with any number of his fellow alumni, including Tim O'Neill, with whom Strickland co-produced and co-directed a short feature titled Daily Mass in 1989. The film would later receive a spotlight in the 24th Chicago International Film Festival, respectively.

After writing an original screenplay titled The Epidemic in 1985, Strickland began working on another script in 1992 after having watched the Jeffrey Dahmer trial on television. He would eventually title his new treatment Dual Mania, which would be a psychological thriller centered around an African American psychiatrist who takes on a White male patient deeply disturbed by childhood issues.

As an emerging filmmaker, Strickland was invited to participate as a judge on the feature film panel in the 32nd Chicago International Film Festival in 1996. Many of the notable films present that year included Twilight of the Golds, Sling Blade, The Fugitive, etc. Moreover, Strickland was personally invited to serve as a judge on the adult jury panel in the 14th Annual Chicago International Children's Film Festival in 1997. And In 1998, Strickland would return to the 15th Annual Chicago International Children's Film Festival to perform as Chair of the Features Jury on the adult jury panel. A few of the showcased films that were awarded with Strickland's endorsement included The Island on Bird Street, Hands Up, and Bavel's Book, the latter a children's feature that the filmmaker would later praise in an interview with the Chicago Tribune.

Joseph Strickland is the co-author of The Making of Dual Mania: Filmmaking Chicago Style, a collaborative effort between himself, author and theater critic B.J. Patterson, and author Cat Ellington, to whom Strickland is married.

Unique traits: A Scorpio in every sense.

Gender:
Male

Height:
5' 8"

Weight:
165

Hair:
Short

Hair color:
Black

Eyes:
Brown

Ethnicity:
African American

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Photos

Music producer Princeton Brown and Film director at the premiere for Dual Mania at The Trylon Cinema in Minneapolis, Minnesota (2021).

Actor Torrence Murphy and Film Director Joseph Strickland at the premiere for Dual Mania at the Trylon Cinema in Minneapolis, Minnesota (2021).

Film director Joseph Strickland at Dual Mania premiere at Gene Siskel Film Center Chicago (2021).

The multi-award-winning feature film, Dual Mania is now available on Amazon Prime!

Videos

Loglines

Dual Mania (2018) Budget: $1M - $5M | Thriller A psychological thriller dealing with the dual persona a young man possesses and attempts to conceal throughout his ongoing sessions with his therapist.

Credits

Dual Mania (2018 - 2021)
Film by Vital Vision Productions/Joseph Strickland (Thriller) Director Recent graduate Dr. Steve Livingston, a new arrival into a prominent Chicago psychotherapist firm, has undertaken a new patient named Tommy who has a troubled past. The new doctor is determined to understand and evaluate the patient's unpredictable and violent behavior. But throughout his examination, the doctor is experiencing problems of his own at home. Although recently engaged to his beautiful fiancée Lydia, Steve still has his own sexual tendencies towards women who appear unexpectedly in his life. Meanwhile, the patient's condition is getting worse - much more so than the doctor realizes. And a dangerous game is about to begin.
Dual Mania (The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2020 - 2021)
Music by Vital Vision Records Songwriter | Composer | Executive Producer Dual Mania (The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is a 2CD soundtrack album from the award-winning film of the same name. Co-produced by Cat Ellington and Princeton Brown and executive produced by Joseph Strickland, Disc 1 features original songs written by Ellington and performed by vocalists Jaki Cavins and DeCarlo Jackson; and Disc 2 features the original film score composed by Marcus Robson.
Instrumentals: Music from the Motion Picture Dual Mania (2021)
Music by Vital Vision Records Composer | Executive Producer Composed by award-winning writers Cat Ellington and Joseph Strickland, Instrumentals: Music from the Motion Picture Dual Mania is an instrumental album featuring compositions from the multi-award-winning film of the same name. Produced by Princeton Brown and Greg Schutte for Vital Vision Records, the works in this compilation first appeared, with vocals, on the soundtrack to Dual Mania in 2020.

Awards

Joseph Strickland | Mindfield Film Festival Albuquerque Bronze Award for Best Director
(2019)
Joseph Strickland | Mindfield Film Festival Albuquerque Bronze Award for Best Screenplay
(2019)
Dual Mania | Mindfield Film Festival Albuquerque Bronze Award for Best Feature Film
(2019)
Dual Mania | Pinnacle Film Awards Winner of Silver Award for Best Feature Film
(2018)
Joseph Strickland | Pinnacle Film Awards Winner of Bronze Award for Best Director
(2018)
Dual Mania | Pinnacle Film Awards Winner of Gold Award for Best Screenplay
(2018)
Dual Mania | Royal Wolf Film Awards Winner of Silver Award for Best of the Month (October)
(2018)
Dual Mania | Royal Wolf Film Awards Winner of Silver Award for Best of the Month (September)
(2018)