Douglas Stuart McDaniel is a writer/director/filmmaker in Knoxville, Tennessee. He is also an author of four books. He premiered his first feature film, The Lovelies of John Alan Maxwell, in February 2013 at the historic Bijou Theatre in Knoxville. The film is scheduled for a three month run in 2014 at the Reece Museum at East Tennessee State University (April 22-July 17, 2014.)

Check out my 2013 short film, The Agenda. Original music scored by Tim Lee 3 at Baker Acres Recording Studio for this film, official entry in the Knoxville Film Festival Seven Day Shootout. https://vimeo.com/75141723

Doug currently has several other projects in development, and is always looking for local (East Tennessee and Western North Carolina) talent. His projects are very strong in story and cinematography, and range from historical/romantic to contemporary. He has done corporate videography for quite some time, including international shoots.

The Lovelies of John Alan Maxwell is a film about a Johnson City, Tennessee native who leaves East Tennessee in 1921 to attend the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, DC and the Art Students League in New York. The film provides a haunting look into the life of bohemian culture of 1920s-30s Greenwich Village, from the distinctly southern eye of an artist haunted by the memories of his own grandfather in the not-so-distant Civil War. The film explores Maxwell's relationship to Ashcan School artists George Bellows and George Luks, his friendship with the poet Kahlil Gibran, and his works for such luminary writers as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Aldous Huxley, Pearl S. Buck, John Steinbeck, and Ernest Hemingway, among many others. In 1948, Esquire magazine compared Maxwell, McDaniel's great uncle, to William Faulkner and Thomas Wolfe as one of the many talents of the Modern South. The film was shot on location in Washington, DC, New York, Alabama, Florida, and East Tennessee. Music for the film includes works by Knoxville band The Black Cadillacs and South African born artist Gregory Alan Isakov.

Official Selection: Cincinnati Film Festival for Legends of Appalachia: The Ace Miller Story

Official Selection: Knoxville Film Festival for Legends of Appalachia: The Ace Miller Story

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