Evening Short: The Bombardier

Film: The Bombardier
Director: Tim Gassen (Tucson, AZ)
Production: Purple Cactus Media Productions
Run Time: 8-min
Genre: Suspense Thriller
Release: 2006

A WWII flyer returns to his old B-17 bomber to find that more than just his old memories are alive. Filmed in high-definition anamorphic widescreen format.

Director: Tim Gassen

Company owner Timothy Gassen boasts more than 20 years of professional experience in all phases of media production — including years of award-winning work as a print journalist, author, filmmaker and audio producer.

Timothy Gassen holds a B.F.A. degree in Motion Pictu
re Direction from The Ohio State University, and is also an alumnus of The University of Arizona, where he was selected for the Renny Harrison Film Scholarship. Gassen has worked on the sets of major Hollywood films and a wide variety of independent film and video productions. He has directed numerous music videos, with his work airing nationally and internationally.

The PCMP owner is also a music composer and publisher, with more than 75 compositions cu
rrently in print. He has produced more than a dozen albums, mostly in the alternative rock genre.

Gassen is a former staff reporter for the Arizona Daily Star newspaper, and staff columnist for Magnet, a national music magazine. He is currently a columnist for InsideHockey magazine, and is now writing an ice hockey book. His print work appears in newspapers and magazines throughout the globe, and he won a 1995 Arizona Press Club Award. Gassen has also authored two successful books on rock music.