John Gaspard has directed and/or produced nine low-budget features, including the digital feature, Grown Men, which premiered at the Ashland International Film Festival and won the “Best of Fest/Best Screenplay” award at the Black Point Film Festival.


He directed and co-wrote the award-winning feature films, Beyond Bob and Ghost Light, and directed the science-fiction comedy feature film, Resident Alien.

John is the author of Fast, Cheap and Under Control: Lessons Learned from the Greatest Low-Budget Movies of All Time … and Fast, Cheap and Written That Way: Top Screenwriters on Writing Low-Budget Movies.

He was also a writer and story editor for the international television comedy/western series, Lucky Luke, starring Terence Hill.


His screenplay, The Sword and Mr. Stone (co-written with Michael Levin) was the first winner of the Barry Morrow Screenwriting Fellowship, as well as a finalist at the Austin Heart of the Film Screenwriting Competition.
 He’s also the author of the novel based on that screenplay.

John co-authored, with Dale Newton, the books Digital Filmmaking 101: An Essential Guide to Producing Low-Budget Movies and Persistence of Vision: An Impractical Guide to Producing A Feature Film For Under $30,000, both published by Michael Wiese Productions.

John hosts “The Occasional Film Podcast,” which is released … well … occasionally.

He is also the author of the Eli Marks Mystery series and the Como Lake Players mystery series, in addition to several stand-alone novels..