Dan Purcell

Max Martin: Time Investigator (2016)
Film (Comedy and Short) Director What would you do if you were given a second chance at life? That's the question proposed in Max Martin: Time Investigator, a short thesis film directed by Dan Purcell. The comedy follows Max Martin (Dan Krackhardt), a wise-cracking, yet clumsy private investigator from 1946 who is hot on the trail of a missing artifact stolen from the famous West Museum. However in trying to solve this crime, Max is knocked unconscious and locked in a deli meat freezer, where his body is preserved 70 years into the future. Now transported to the year 2016, Max attempts to try and wrap up the now "cold case" he was trying to solve back in 1946; though he soon learns that when faced with a big change in one's life, falling back on the one thing that you're "good" at isn't necessarily the "right" thing to do.

Stages (2015)
Film (Drama and Short) Director Stages follows one man's emotional journey in one night, from sunset to dawn. Each song sung in the film corresponds to one stage of grieving -- denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. These stages manifest as people that the protagonist, Matthew encounters. Each new person pulls him into the next emotional state while singing that stage's song. He travels through an alley, a bar, a rave, a cemetery, and more, ending up in a tranquil forest by a waterfall. Matthew, suffering from a broken relationship, finds his own mental and emotional strength to carry on, and by the film's close, looks toward a hopeful future.

Nothing Ever Happened (2013)
Film (Comedy and Short) Director At Savage High, John has felt like an outcast for his entire high school career. Tormented by jock strap Tank Coddington III, and pining after the love of his life Robyn, John finds comfort in his only friend, Lola. Together, John and Lola navigate high school, confronting bullies and their inner demons, and slowly but surely, John wins the girl and becomes an outcast no more! ...Except something is not right. John's lived each day of that tacky high school comedy plot over and over and over again, with his entire life resetting after the end of the film. Realizing that he's in a comedy film, John plots his escape by constructing what he hopes to be a Deus Ex Machina: an Existence Machine that will transplant his character out of the movie and into the real world!