Allen is a Maine filmmaker who has been making shorts and features in his home state for over 15 years. He is the co-founder of Damnationland, a showcase of short dark genre films made by Maine filmmakers, now in its ninth year.  He produced Derek Kimball’s feature film debut Neptune which screened at Slamdance, the Nashville Film Festival, the Atlanta Film Festival, and was released in 2017 by Flix Premiere as a “Red Carpet” release. Currently, he is producing Kimball’s latest feature, A Winter Table, which was selected for the Sundance Film Two Lab in 2017. Allen has a BA from Bowdoin College, an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Southern Maine, and was a Fellow at the Sundance Creative Producing Summit in August of 2017. He lives in Portland, Maine with his wife and children, and two blind dogs with people names.