"White Room"

“The White Room” is a relationship drama with a supernatural twist: Grant walks in on his wife Dana and his best friend Adam. A shot is fired and the two friends find themselves in an infinite white room where a strange man talks them through what happened, while it is happening: Past, present and future melt into a decisive moment in which Grant has to face his fate.

Carsten Kurpanek was born in Würzburg, Germany. He worked as a tax collector for several years before deciding to quit his job to study Film Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg-University in Mainz, Germany. There he studied the aesthetics, history and theory of film and became eager to put his theoretical knowledge into actually making movies.

In 2005/06 Carsten studied Telecommunications at Ball State University, Muncie, IN, USA, were he shot his first short film, Digital Age. Since then he has directed six more short films (including Left & Leaving, The White Room). He considers editing his forte and alway edits his own movies himself. He as also worked as an editor on several other short film projects (including Travis Hatfield's Sick, Preston Russett's White and Black).

Carsten graduate in Germany with a master in Film Studies in July 2007 and moved to move to L.A. in August to pursue his version of the American Dream by trying to become a professional editor/director.

Director’s Filmography:

Digital Age (October 2006) - Writer, Director, Editor, SFX (short, 6 min.)
Blind Date (Januar 2006) - Writer, Director, DP, Editor (short, 6 min.)
Double Shots (February 2006) - Writer, Director, DP, Editor (short, 8 min.)
Jumper (April 2006) - Director, DP, Editor, SFX (co-directed by Joshua Carver, short, 9 min.)
Left and Leaving (July 2006) - Writer, Director, Editor (short, 18 min.)
The White Room (May 2007) - Writer, Director, Editor, SFX (short, 8 min.)